This is almost always a message that comes up when you have too many
items loaded into memory at startup or are running more applications
than your "regular" memory can handle. I would install CClenaer and use
the startup tool there to turn everything off except your anti virus
program. Than reboot and see how much better your computer runs.
Virtual memory is a small section of the hard drive that Windows sets
aside to use as a "swap File" when it runs out of regular memory. You
can increase the size of that area by going to System Properties,
Advanced Tab, Performance settings. But if your computer is using
virtual memory continually, you either need to turn off or uninstall the
applications that are hogging it (Like Norton is the WORST) and/or add
more regular memory. You do NOT want to be using Virtual memory at all
if possible. It is about a thousand times as slow as regular memory and
is going to give you poor results no matter what size the swap file is.
Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@icehouse.net
509-891-5188
On 11/27/2011 5:17 PM, resawd wrote:
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> can anyone give me the 5 cent explanation od "virtual memory"? I get
> frequent messages saying that I'm getting low on it but I don't know
> what to do about it. I tried to Google the term but the explanations
> that I see are way over my head. I'm using a Gateway laptop with
> Windows XP Pro.
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