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March 29th, 2008 09:00
VIRTUAL MEMORY TOO LOW-WINDOWS XP
Hi!...Please help (FIRST TIME)!ON VIRTUAL MEMORY
I have a:
-Windows XP (Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2)
Dell Dimension DIM 2400 Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.409GHz
2.39 GHz, 256MB of RAM
Currently everytime I am on the internet for a certain amount of time (like Limewire), I get a message to say that "virtual memory is low".
Also when I went into MY COMPUTER, C:/ drive is highlighted in blue.
I have gone to the Performance Options and reset it System Managed Size. I have also defrag & cleanup disk, backed files on CD etc...
But even when I restarted the Computer, nothing has changed!..
Space available on C:/ is 27340MB.
I would grealty appreciate your help!
Thanks
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osprey4
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March 29th, 2008 10:00
You seem to have stumbled onto the hard drive forum. Fortunately, this is not a hard drive problem. My suggestion would be to head over to the Windows XP forum for help with issues like this. HOWEVER, this is a an easily solved issue, so a quick Google search will find many answers just like these.
Good luck!
dbtmellis
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March 30th, 2008 07:00
I would upgrade your actual RAM. 256MB today is way too low for most of what is out there today. I would upgrade to at least 512MB, 1GB if you can afford it. You will notice a big increase of your system performance.
Never rely on Virtual memory for system memory, its way slower that RAM (1000 times slower I believe) and it will wear out your hard drive faster, since it reading from the hard drive, not the RAM modules. Virtual memory is designed as a temporary usage if you use up all of your RAM. If you are at full RAM all of the time, its time to get an upgrade.
To see the amount of RAM being used, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del keys and view the task manger, click on the performance tab. It will show how much RAM is being used.
Right now my system is using 472MB of RAM. (my max is 1280MB) which is about 36% capacity. I would never run above 75-80% of the RAM, chances are that's the time to consider upgrading. I have a lot of applications running all the time as well- chat messagers, antivirus, weatherchannel desktop, and of course the Operating System. If would never be able to run any sort of game that is graphics intensive (simulations) with what I run at 256MB. I would have to shut down all apps to be able to run those, and even then the system might not be able to handle it.