Vitual memory is too low

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My Vitual memory is too low What is it ?

Many thanks
Om Corporation

 

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Hi,

It is the portion of the hard drive that is used to store memory pages when
the amount of ram the system needs exceeds the memory capacity of the
machine. The low VM warnings can have several causes, but the most
frequently seen ones are caused when the user has filled the hard drive to
near capacity, or when they have set restrictions on the upper size limit of
the pagefile (the name of the file used for the virtual memory). For the
former, you need to clean up the drive housing pagefile.sys so that it has
room to expand. For the latter, you need to undo any restrictions (mainly
these would only be done by advanced users).

Also, do you have Intel Application Accelerator installed? If so, you need
to uninstall it and install the latest version. The older ones are
incompatible with WinXP and can cause this error message.

If not, then try this: Go to System properties/advanced/performance
settings/advanced tab/virtual memory change and disable the swap file.
Reboot. Delete all instances of pagefile.sys from all drives should any
exist, then reverse the original steps and reenable the swap file. Reboot
once more to finish. See if this helps,

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Matt's Xp world" <omcorp@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> My Vitual memory is too low What is it ?
>
> Many thanks
> Om Corporation

 

[pip22]

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Virtual memory is a reserved portion of your hard disk that is
automatically used as required by Windows when there is not sufficient
"real" memory (RAM) left to carry out a particular task. In Windows XP,
this virtual memory space is actually a file called PAGEFILE.SYS, and
the size of it can be manually increased from Control Panel -- System
-- click on the 'Advanced' tab.

Click on the top 'Settings' buttonn.

Click on 'Advanced'

At the bottom (virtual memory), click on the 'Change' button.

Choose the 'Custom size' option (it may already be set to this option)

Leave 'Initial Size' at it's current setting.

Set 'maximum size' to 500 or higher

Click the 'Set' button.

A restart may be required (can't remember)


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Please note that the OP is looking for XP tips such that he can create his
own help site.. I saw his post a couple of days ago where he was asking for
them..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm





"pip22" <pip22.1lyhgi@no-mx.msusenet.com> wrote in message
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>
> Virtual memory is a reserved portion of your hard disk that is
> automatically used as required by Windows when there is not sufficient
> "real" memory (RAM) left to carry out a particular task. In Windows XP,
> this virtual memory space is actually a file called PAGEFILE.SYS, and
> the size of it can be manually increased from Control Panel -- System
> -- click on the 'Advanced' tab.
>
> Click on the top 'Settings' buttonn.
>
> Click on 'Advanced'
>
> At the bottom (virtual memory), click on the 'Change' button.
>
> Choose the 'Custom size' option (it may already be set to this option)
>
> Leave 'Initial Size' at it's current setting.
>
> Set 'maximum size' to 500 or higher
>
> Click the 'Set' button.
>
> A restart may be required (can't remember)
>
>
> --
> pip22
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> View this thread: http://www.msusenet.com/t-3181704
>

 

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In addition to what has been posted you might want to read Alex Nichol's
page here http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Matt's Xp world" <omcorp@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> My Vitual memory is too low What is it ?
>
> Many thanks
> Om Corporation

 

[Guest]

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...and if he repeats pip22's advice then OP will have some *extremely*
unhappy clients. ;-)

--
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.


"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Please note that the OP is looking for XP tips such that he can create his
> own help site.. I saw his post a couple of days ago where he was asking
> for them..
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/user
>
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
>
>
>
> "pip22" <pip22.1lyhgi@no-mx.msusenet.com> wrote in message
> news😛ip22.1lyhgi@no-mx.msusenet.com...
>>
>> Virtual memory is a reserved portion of your hard disk that is
>> automatically used as required by Windows when there is not sufficient
>> "real" memory (RAM) left to carry out a particular task. In Windows XP,
>> this virtual memory space is actually a file called PAGEFILE.SYS, and
>> the size of it can be manually increased from Control Panel -- System
>> -- click on the 'Advanced' tab.
>>
>> Click on the top 'Settings' buttonn.
>>
>> Click on 'Advanced'
>>
>> At the bottom (virtual memory), click on the 'Change' button.
>>
>> Choose the 'Custom size' option (it may already be set to this option)
>>
>> Leave 'Initial Size' at it's current setting.
>>
>> Set 'maximum size' to 500 or higher
>>
>> Click the 'Set' button.
>>
>> A restart may be required (can't remember)
>>
>>
>> --
>> pip22
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> pip22's Profile: http://www.msusenet.com/member.php?userid=98
>> View this thread: http://www.msusenet.com/t-3181704
>>
>
>