memory virtual insufficient messages

I continue to receive virtual memory messages almost every day and sometimes I was not on this long. Does anyone know how can I fix?

You can figure out what's going on and then you can determine the best way to fix it.

Please provide additional information on your system:

What is your system brand and model?

What is your Version of XP and the Service Pack?

Describe your current antivirus and software anti malware situation: McAfee, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, MSE, Comodo, etc..

Click Start, run and enter in the box:

Msinfo32

Click on OK and when the system info summary appears, click on Edition, select all, copy, and then paste the results here.

There will be some personal information (such as the user name and the name of the system), and what appears to be personal information for you, simply delete the personal information of the pasted information.

If you mean that you see a message like this:

Virtual memory minimum too low: your system is low on virtual memory.  Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file.

This means that Windows XP is to let you know that he does his work.  The message is not an error message - this is an informational message.

If XP thinks that the size of the swap file (usually c:\pagefile.sys) is too small to accommodate your day-to-day transactions to happen on it to enlarge and display this message.

Sometimes the message means that someone has been tampering with the pagefile to try to solve another problem that usually has nothing to do with their paging file.

To see what your current paging file settings, right-click my computer, properties, advanced, Performance settings, Advanced tab change button, virtual memory.

Unless learn you more about managing memory than Windows XP, you should let XP manage the size of your virtual memory paging file.

The best setting for the size of the paging file is usually going to be:

System managed size

Windows XP will attempt to affect a swap file approximately 1.5 times the total amount of RAM installed on your system.  To manage the size of paging file Windows XP is enough for most configurations.

If yours is not set to the size of the managed system, you must determine how it changed and why (usually a bad reason), take note of the current settings, change the size of the managed system setting, click define and apply the changes (you will be asked to restart).

See how your system behaves when XP manages virtual memory.  Always a manual adjustment according to what you do, but XP usually does a good job.

"Because someone told me to" is not a good reason to start just making adjustments to the size of pagefile.  You must understand and fix it well - not simply to start trying things or you can adversely affect the performance of your system trying to get out the informational message.  You really need to fix it, not only adjust things so that the message no longer appears.  You really a manual setting, but you should at least try to know what you're doing and why you need to do it at all.

After making the settings, restart, then check the paging file settings again to ensure that they stick, then retest your system and see if you still get the messages.

If you still see the message with the size of the system managed, you must determine what applications you are running that consume a large part of the virtual memory that Windows XP keeps needing to adjust it.

Some antivirus applications are known to consume large amounts of virtual memory (as the Teatimer from Spybot - do you have installed?).

You can determine how the applications use virtual memory using the Task Manager.

To do this:

Click with the right button on the taskbar, choose Task Manager and select the processes tab.

Click View, select column, check the box that says: virtual memory size.  Expand the height and the width of the Task Manager by dragging the edges to see if possible all the columns and the processes in a single window.

Double click on a column heading in TM to sort the column.  For example, sort tasks in the column size CPU or virtual memory manager.

What are the processes on the top of the list by using the more virtual memory?

Do, or do not. There is no test.

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