my computer continues to run out of virtual memory

I deleted programs and defragged my computer.

To make sure that we are talking about the same thing.

Exactly how do you know that you run 'Virtual memory' specifically?

Virtual memory is actually a 'swap file' specially allocated space on the hard drive. Most of the facilities have it set to automatically expand and shrink as needed. If freeing space on your hard disk and Defrag is reasonable.

The amount of used and free space on the hard drive you have?

You should also check the amount of virtual memory allocated.

  1. Open the 'System' using the shortcut dialog
  2. Notice how ' installed memory (RAM): "you have.
  3. Press or click on advanced system settings. You may be prompted for an administrator password or to confirm your choice.

  4. On the Advanced tab, under performance, tap or click settings.

  5. Press or click the Advanced tab, and then under virtual memory, press or click on modify.

  6. Claire runs it automatically the size of pagefile for all drives check box.

  7. Under drive [Volume label], tap or click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.

  8. Press or click Custom size, type a new size in megabytes in the initial size (MB) or maximum size (MB) box, type or click on set and then press or click OK.

In general, the recommendations are that you should have 1 to 3 times your RAM memory allocated to virtual memory.   If I have enough free space on the hard drive, I personally prefer the size of the max and min even swap file.

Originally, in the 1980s and the beginning of the 90s HD space is at a premium and so was RAM (I paid $5000 for my first computer with 2 MB RAM and 80 MB of free disk space!). It made sense to let the system allocate more swap file space according to the needs, and then free it up. But this approach also has the effect of fragmenting the HD.  Now ship computers with RAM that is literally orders of magnitude larger than at the time and so are HD, in fact, if you have lots of RAM, say more than 4 GB for a home user, I've seen some recommendations to minimize the size of the swap file. These same days budget computers come with more than enough disk space that continuously allocate enough virtual memory is not a constraint.

If you set a constant pagefile size, it's probably a good idea to defragment the paging file too. This requires special tools to defragmentation.

FYI: this is the wrong forum and category to ask this question. You should ask her in the Windows forum.

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