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• When I put the virtual memory in windows vista is it ok! to enter the same size (MB) the initial size and maximum size boxes example 2877 (MB's) entered the two box?

  When I put the virtual memory in windows vista Home premium is ok! to enter the boxes the same size (MB) "initial size and the Maximum size" example 2877 (MB's) entered in each box for initial and maximum size?

  Yes, you can do it. The minimum must be large enough to contain an image of the core. If the maximum is too small, you will get the unpleasant results.

  This article has some tips on the size of the page file at the end.

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx

• My PC is always low virtual memory. Why does.

  Even when my PC does not all open programs, I still have a warning box will appear to tell me that windows is low on virtual memory.

  I run XP home edition 2004.

  I recently xferred my photo + music files to an external hard drive, but I still tell me that memory is low!

  What is the cause + I can do anything to put this right?

  Explorer is too slow and often egg or begins to force me to use the Task Manager to close the program does not. Is this related to this memory problem?

  Two points:

  1. What are you describe is a function of two or three of the following:

  (a) who is not enough of physical memory (also called RAM)

  (b) too many programs and processes running (perhaps due to a malware infection)

  (c) incorrect virtual memory configuration
  2. you're confused memory and hard disk space when you say "I recently xferred my photo + music files to a drive external hard but I said always not the memory is low!
  This page explains the difference:
  http://www.worthgodwin.com/computer-lessons-blog/2008/02/what-is-RAM-what-is-hard-drive-plain.html
  Getting back to your question, you must help us! You need to tell us what you have. Are the following:
  -brand, model and model number of your PC
  -SP level
  -amount of RAM
  If you are unsure, do a click right my computer and select Properties. Only necessary information should already be showing under the general tab to keep this window open for more later...
  -virtual memory setting
  To do this, click on the Advanced System Properties window already open tab. Under performance, click settings. In the new performance Options window, click the Advanced tab. Under virtual memory, this figure is listed as the "Total paging file size for all drives"? Then click the button change.
  Assuming that C: drive is highlighted, I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that a custom size is activated (in general, which is not a good idea!). Out of curiosity, what are these two values?
  To make life a LOT easier, click on "System managed size". Then click on the Set button. Then click on the OK button. Then click on other buttons OK. Reset.
  If you click on the size of the managed system, you must stop to get these annoying messages. (But your work isn't always more. You need see if you have enough RAM, or if there is something on your PC, hogging memory).
  -size of the drive C: and the amount of free space available
  To do this, double-click my computer. Click view on the menu bar, and then select Details. Under "Drives", what are the values of the size total and free space on C:?
  -Tell us what antivirus or suite program you use. Is up to date?
  -tell us if you ALL post-SP3 (assuming you have SP3!) security updates installed or not
  -We say users of memory of the top 10 in the Task Manager
  To do this, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, click on the processes tab click on use of Mem. Click again. (This will give you the biggest users of memory above.) What are the processes of ten albums? And what are the values according to the uses of Mem for each of them?
  Manager tasks of maintaining open, click on the performance tab. Then the three values under Commit Charge (k) Note: in the lower left corner: Total, limit and peak.

  The Total number represents the amount of memory you are using right now. The vertex figure represents the maximum amount of memory you made since the last boot. If these figures are lower than the value of the amount of physical memory (K), then you probably have lots of RAM. (But I doubt that you do!) Tell us about these figures.

  As soon as we have the above information, we will have an idea what your situation is.

  Since it's always a good idea to rule out malware (as malware uses a lot of memory, among other things!), you must do the following:

  First, run the portable Analyzer of SAS:

  http://www.SUPERAntiSpyware.com/portablescanner.html

  Then, run the version FREE of MBAM (not the version pro or trial!):

  http://www.Malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

  Let us know the results.

• Error message says that my system's virtual memory is too low.

  Hello, I have increased the paging files such minimum and maximum values suggested by various sources of help and my computer seems to be running a little faster, but negligible so. I also understand that moreRAM will help, however, I have the maximum RAM my laptop can take internally (256 MB). Is there such a thing asexternal RAM I can get to increase my RAM? I work withWindows XP Home Edition and I understand that I need a minimum of 256 MBRAM for my virtual memory to be ok. Verification ofRAM to my system , I see that I have 256 MB of RAM (physical memory), however, only about 10 MB ofRAM (physical memory) is available for use (I got this information from thesystem information tool). I don't know what that means. Should I have 256 MB ofRAM available for use for my virtual memory to be ok? My hard drive is 20 GB but I have about 0,6 GB of free space, so I think I have anexternal hard drive in order to have more space. Can get an external hard drive to upgrade my RAM? Any help
  very much appreciated. Tony.

  Hi, I sympathise with your situation, but my answer may not be what you want here, even though I think you'll find credible and useful information (I have a degree in computer service technology (end of the 1980s, but I do not work in this area).)

  In the computing environment today with all web 2.0 and 3.0, sites which consist usually of a large number of graphics and flash type software, you must have much more memory...
  For simplicity, there are memories of basically two types that apply to your situation, and it is the RAM (to run your software as applications etc., then the memory of your hard drive (to do most of the work...)
  The computer, I am writing about this time is about five to seven years of age. He had 500MB of RAM when I bought it and 80 GB of hard drive memory. Then about two years ago I started to have virtual memory issues so I bought a stick of 1 GB of ram and installed what brought my RAM to 1.5 GB of ram and it took care of the issue of virtual memory. (I use a Dell Dimension 2400). I also bought a terabyte external drive to organize the future all downloads and transferred from the stuff that was on my computer on the external drive to free up some memory hard drive of my computer.
  Here are some points to remember and a recommendation or two. If you can, buy you a bar of RAM and install it... (instructions should come with the RAM on how to install it and you can also search the creator of computer Web site for assistance). It's a fairly simple process which consist essentially of find a connector available on your motherboard near where your already installed ram is located and pop in the newly purchased RAM stick. You should be able to get at least another stick of ram of 256 MB and this should help.
  You also have another problem, however, you indicate that you have seulement.6 GB memory hard drive of 20 GB. From my experience, when you use beyond the mark to halfway to the memory of your drive hard your computer can start to slow you down to the bottom of issues.
  20 GB hard drive is not really much memory in standard today for the internet. If I was buying a computer today, I would get at least a terabyte of disk hard memory (and at the very least, the computer should have at least 500 GB memory hard drive). You could probably make it thereby half, but I mainly throw these numbers out there so you can get some perspective on how just 20 GB is not get it for the internet today, especially if you use your laptop or desktop (20 GB might be great for palm pilot but even these computer really little, I forgot the name off the coast of the hand have more than 20 GB...)
  I hope that this information was of some use to you. You can find me doing my thinghttp://www.informationinternetmarketing.com/
  Good luck
  Floyd
  P.S. I just noticed you said you within your capabilities of ram in your computer... If you can not increase ram, then you should try to increase virtual memory... It is recommended that you increase the virtual memory by 1.5 times greater than the normal setting. Below is a step by step method, retrieved from http://www.delete-computer-history.com/increase-virtual-memory.html

  How to increase virtual memory?

  In Windows XP

  1. on start and then click Control Panel.
  2. click on performance and Maintenanceand then click System.
  3. on the Advanced tab, under performance, click settings.
  4. under the Advanced tab, under virtual memory, click on change.
  5. under drive [Volume label], click the drive that contains the swap file that you want to change.

  
  6. under paging file size for selected drive, click custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you wish to book for virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
  7. click on set
  When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.
  Special note: You must choose the same amount for the initial size and maximum size. This will stop your CPU from the pagefile evolving.
  You can also get more information at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417

• Commit charge increases until no virtual memory

  For several days there, I get pop-ups that my virtual memory is low. Finally, the system enters in what appears like safe mode and finally crashes. This only happens using browsers to e-mail and another a few sites, no game, no diffusion... nothing of any bit intensive and nothing different from what I did for many years on the system. I used to be able to leave the system for days or even weeks and never had clear the cache. Now, the validation fees just guard increases until it reaches 100 percent. Physical memory ranges between 35 and 60 percent. I read several other Q & as on this question on this forum (thanks!), but all are less than 2 years, so I don't want to search old bugs. Here are more details.

  Windows 7, 4 GB RAM, ~ 100 GB of free HD.

  Known to the recent changes to the system: Adobe Flash and Java. I can't be sure if these updates have been before or after the beginning of the question of memory. Firefox has an update, but it was certainly after that the problem started - the update has not solved the problem.

  Browsers are Chrome and Firefox, both up to date. It seemed that Chrome uses too much memory, and I read about the leaks memory with Chrome, so I spent a day or two to try to correct this and finally uninstalled Chrome. This has not solved the problem.

  Finally, I did a restore of the system for you ensure that my game with expanded memory settings did not make things worse. The oldest available system restore has been 27/01/15 ~ 0700. This did not help either, but the problem may have started before that date.

  TIA,

  GD11

  @FL:

  I checked. I have already switched off everything except (apparently) necessary files of Windows and Intel.

  While you will lose some functionality, you can safely uncheck each item on the Startup tab. You should do the same with the items on the Services tab, but only after you have checked the box "Hide Microsoft services".

• Swap file / virtual memory

  WIN 7

  Read the reference and successful links to get my confused self on the setting of the page file / virtual memory.

  Some please can you model which is best practices.

  for example. can I set up a swap file on all drives, including the system disk?

  Craig,

  When you configure a Windows system, a managed dynamic swap file is created on the startup disk. The disadvantages are mainly two things:

  1. the fragmentation of the pagefile, reducing performance, and

  2. several requests on the same hard disk access, which reduces performance.

  In general, it is better to have dedicated disks for dedicated tasks that access to each disk, so the OS on 1 disk, pagefile on another disk, support on another disk, presents a preview on another one, etc..

  When you set up a new facility with newly formatted discs, I believe it is preferable to use another drive for the paging file that is static, and it's the first thing I do. This will mean that it is the first file created on the separate disk and will be located on the fastest part of the disk. Making public static, means that there will be no fragmentation.

  There is a golden rule to set the size of your pagefile to about 1.5 times the physical memory, but this dating from the time when 4 GB memory was already huge. With 12 GB of memory the norm these days, it is meaningless to make the pagefile over 8 to 12 GB. This will depend on your usual workflow. If you used to have a lot of open applications, working in the shadows, AE make, SOUL a great file queue handling, editing in PR, all by building a disc in FR and switching back and forth between the AU and PR, all at the same time, you should probably increase this figure.

  IMO, it is not advantageous to use of swap files on multiple disks. In my case, with 12 G of memory, I use a swap file static single of 8 G on a raid0 of two disks. I never needed more than about 4 G max of this space.

• How to use 1 GB SD-Card as virtual memory?

  Had the brilliant idea to use my SD card of 1 GB of virtual memory.
  This gives a new impetus and speed up things in the ir, it's just a "idea light and nothing on boost.
  Thanks for the info

  Did you mean paging?
  You can do something like that on the HARD drive but I don't think it's possible with the SD card.
  Virtual memory, you can set in the Advanced memory virtual System Properties Advanced performance options

  The virtual memory size can be defined on each HARD disk or partition

• Help - my virtual memory is full and I can't fix it

  Hello

  Last week my mac started saying "the applications memory is full" and detective work showed me my virtual memory is full.

  I have used Clean my Mac 3, but that did not help (he removed a lot of junk to computer, but still the same problem of memory)

  I'm not technical interest but have tried some things and not having any success.

  Any tips?

  Basically, he did my livelihood Imac all gel, so it becomes impossible to work. (Can't even type this her - do for my laptop).

  I'd just better take it to a genius bar or it's something that I can solve with the help of you good people?

  You must free up space, delete apps that you don't use

  delete old photos, perhaps after saving them remove old video clip...

• Disable virtual memory Windows server 2012 R2

  Is it good to disable virtual memory for the specified windows OS?

  We are running an application that uses the JVM, the enforcement community suggests that disable us virtual memory for good performance. I know it's easy to do in linux, but want to confirm if its good to do the same thing under windows and recommended?

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• 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.

• KB973687 - msxml3.dll msxml6.dll - services.exe uses excessive virtual memory, the performance impact on the first logon after restart

  Since the installation of fix KB973687, I had several SP2 and SP3 systems exhibit behavior that makes them unusable until after the first logon is completed, which can take up to 20 minutes.   I've identified the patch (KB973687) and DLLs, that it will update the origin of the problem, but uninstalling the patch does NOT return to normal operation.

  I need to understand how to upgrade these systems WindowsXP SP2 and SP3 to restore normal operation, reinstalling Windows, programs, and settings is an expensive solution.

  The performance problem is caused by services.exe slowly consumes about 1.5 GB of virtual memory, and then slowly releasing.  This seems to be triggered by the first logon after restart, this connection is very slow, the screen is blank for most of it, there might be failures of allocation memory during logon.  Once complete this opening of session and memory usage returns to normal levels, recording and return to work normally as do other operations until the system is restarted.

  Spent a lot of time working with SysInternals Process Explorer, trying to find what specific service might be involved, lightweight system for bare essential services with no luck.

  KB973687 seems to offer only two files msxml3.dll and msxml6.dll.  Uninstalling this patch, resettlement V3 and V6 of the XML parser fail to restore normal operation.

  Not all systems seem to have place still restrict the differences.  Systems that are appear to be the oldest, with Windows XP has been installed for at least a year, installed Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.

  Looking for these forums and the Internet, I believe that many have encountered this problem, but have not is it this level of analysis, seem most attribute it to a virus, I see several start explorer.exe manually, I didn't know all the alternatives before reinstalling Windows.

  Found the solution, the following has been fixed in System Cleaner of Comodo 2.2.129172.4:

  "For some strange reason, after changing some settings of the system with the CSC LastGood.tmp Directoy began to constantly be read from my hard drive. This would occur up to about 90 to 99% of my memory was used and then stopped, begin to free the memory, and the system began to slowly to function normally.
  I used the process explore from sysinternals to help diagnose the problem with any process other than services.exe using memory.

  I used sysinterals filemonitor to see LastGood.tmp directory has been read repeatedly.
  After you have uninstalled CSC the problem has been resolved. »

  Even with the effort to find the solution, it was better to reinstall.  Hope this solution helps others.

• My computer is low on virtual memory. How can I fix it?

  My computer is marked with virtual memory. What should I do?

  Where is Ben from database...

  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, it will adjust the paging file to expand the pagefile and display this message as it does.  It is not necessarily a 'problem', but the message is boring.

  Sometimes, the message indicates someone was tampering with the XP of the paging file settings to try to solve another problem that usually has nothing to do with their paging file and resolve things inefficiently.

  This could mean that the settings have been adjusted for certain values that don't make sense for the configuration of the system.  Unless we know the system better, you can't just pick certain values out of the air and that your system behaves effectively.  You might not see the message again, but this does not mean that the settings are correct.

  This could mean that the settings have never been properly in the first place when you first install of XP and things must be properly configured.

  Sometimes, as your system configuration changes over time and other applications are running and get bigger, you may add additional RAM to your system to accommodate things (or run the number of requests).

  At least that learn you more about managing memory than Windows XP, it is usually best to simply let XP manage the size of your virtual memory paging file.

  To see what your current, make settings right click post work, properties, advanced, performance settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory, and then click the button change.

  Make a note of the current settings in case you need to change their return more later.

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

  System managed size

  Right click my computer, properties, Advanced tab, Performance... Settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory... Change.

  Set the paging file size on:

  System managed size

  Don't forget to click on Set (to be defined), OK (several times) and then restart your computer.

  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 your system is not set to the size of the managed system, you must determine how it changed and why (usually a bad reason), make a note of the current settings to change them back later if necessary, and then change the setting to the size of the managed system, click on the Set button and then click on apply to apply the changes (you will be asked to restart).

  "Because someone told me to" is not a good reason to start making adjustments to the size of pagefile.  Setting just above to enlarge it by an arbitrary value can ease the symptoms of the problem and stop message, but may not result in the best configuration for your system.

  If you want your system to operate as efficiently as possible, you must understand what is happening and fix it properly and not only begin to try things or make some arbitrary adjustments.

  The size of the pagefile can really need adjustment, but you should at least try to know what you're doing and why you need to do.  It is unlikely that anyone can tell you how to adjust your settings properly without more information.

  If you don't know what the best settings are or if you are not sure what your settings should be, and we can see what is your situation:

  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.

  This minimize back Q & A and eliminate the guesswork and assumptions.

• Win XP (Pro) - the correct virtual memory size

  Hello

  May I know what is the optimal size for the virtual memoray in MB when the Advance system setting?

  The default size of the system to the optimal size is?

  What happens when it is too beneath and above the optimum size?

  I need my PC to get the best visual effect and fast and accurate performance.

  Thank you

  Low

  No one can tell you that, without more information on your system.

  They can guess and suggest things like the committed Microsoft Support Engineer "experts":

  'Increase the value of the initial and maximum size to a higher value.

  Who has no sense at all, but it is advice from these committed Microsoft alleged Support Engineer "experts."

  Increase by 10, 100, 1000, a meelion?

  If your pagefile is out of whack, you might see something like that:

  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, it will adjust the paging file to expand the pagefile and display this message as it does.  It is not necessarily a 'problem', but the message is boring.

  My notes:

  At least that learn you more about managing memory than Windows XP, it is usually best to simply let XP manage the size of your virtual memory paging file.

  To see what your current, make settings right click post work, properties, advanced, performance settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory, and then click the button change.

  Make a note of the current settings in case you need to change their return more later.

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

  System managed size

  Right click my computer, properties, Advanced tab, Performance... Settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory... Change.

  Note the current setting, so you can change things later if you have a problem.

  If it is already done, on the size of swap file:
  
  System managed size

  Don't forget to click on Set (to be defined), OK several times to save the settings and then restart your computer.

  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 your system is not set to the size of the managed system, you must determine how it changed and why (usually a bad reason), make a note of the current settings to change them back later if necessary, and then change the setting to the size of the managed system, click on the Set button and then click on apply to apply the changes (you will be asked to restart).

  "Because someone told me to" is not a good reason to start making adjustments to the size of pagefile.  Setting just above to enlarge it by an arbitrary value can ease the symptoms of the problem and stop message, but may not result in the best configuration for your system.

  All the advice to 'Increase the value of the initial and maximum size to a higher value' are misinformed ideas that come from not knowing how to work XP - How do you increase it and what happens if you increase too?

  If you want your system to operate as efficiently as possible, you must understand what is happening and fix it properly and not only begin to try things or make some arbitrary adjustments.

  The size of the pagefile can really need adjustment, but you should at least try to know what you're doing and why you need to do.  It is unlikely that anyone can tell you how to adjust your settings properly without more information.

  If you don't know what are the best settings, or if you are not sure what should be your settings and need help looking at your stuff, follow these steps:

  Click Start, run and enter in the box:

  Msinfo32

  Click OK, and when the system info summary appears, click on edit, select all (Ctrl-A), copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) the information back here in your next reply.

  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.

  This minimize back Q & A and eliminate the guesswork and assumptions.

• increase virtual memory

  in trying to increase my virtual memory, he always tells me that I need to enter the value of the file size of page? can anyone help.

  Why do you think that you need to increase virtual memory?

  No one can help you without more information (well, they can try, but it might be only guess).

  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, it will adjust the paging file to expand the pagefile and display this message as it does.  It is not necessarily a 'problem', but the message is boring.

  Sometimes, the message indicates someone was tampering with the XP of the paging file settings to try to solve another problem that usually has nothing to do with their paging file and resolve things inefficiently.

  This could mean that the settings have been adjusted for certain values that don't make sense for the configuration of the system.  Unless we know the system better, you can't just pick certain values out of the air and that your system behaves effectively.  You might not see the message again, but this does not mean that the settings are correct.

  This could mean that the settings have never been properly in the first place when you first install of XP and things must be properly configured.

  Sometimes, as your system configuration changes over time and other applications are running and get bigger, you may add additional RAM to your system to accommodate things (or run the number of requests).

  At least that learn you more about managing memory than Windows XP, it is usually best to simply let XP manage the size of your virtual memory paging file.

  To see what your current, make settings right click post work, properties, advanced, performance settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory, and then click the button change.

  Make a note of the current settings in case you need to change their return more later.

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

  System managed size

  Right click my computer, properties, Advanced tab, Performance... Settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory... Change.

  Note the current setting, so you can change things later if you have a problem.

  If it is already done, on the size of swap file:

  System managed size

  Don't forget to click on Set (to be defined), OK (several times) and then restart your computer.

  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 your system is not set to the size of the managed system, you must determine how it changed and why (usually a bad reason), make a note of the current settings to change them back later if necessary, and then change the setting to the size of the managed system, click on the Set button and then click on apply to apply the changes (you will be asked to restart).

  "Because someone told me to" is not a good reason to start making adjustments to the size of pagefile.  Setting just above to enlarge it by an arbitrary value can ease the symptoms of the problem and stop message, but may not result in the best configuration for your system.

  All the advice to 'Increase the value of the initial and maximum size to a higher value' are misinformed ideas that come from not knowing how to work XP - How do you increase it and what happens if you increase too?

  If you want your system to operate as efficiently as possible, you must understand what is happening and fix it properly and not only begin to try things or make some arbitrary adjustments.

  The size of the pagefile can really need adjustment, but you should at least try to know what you're doing and why you need to do.  It is unlikely that anyone can tell you how to adjust your settings properly without more information.

  If you don't know what are the best settings, or if you are not sure what should be your settings and need help looking at your stuff, follow these steps:

  Click Start, run and enter in the box:

  Msinfo32

  Click OK, and when the system info summary appears, click on edit, select all (Ctrl-A), copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) the information back here in your next reply.

  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.

  This minimize back Q & A and eliminate the guesswork and assumptions.

• I have a message saying "windows virtual memory is low"

  I'm using windows xp (32) bits and a message keeps coming up saying "Windows virtual memory is low" what can I do about it please can someone tell me? ".

  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, it will adjust the paging file to expand the pagefile and display this message as it does.  It is not necessarily a 'problem', but the message is boring.

  Sometimes, the message indicates someone was tampering with the XP of the paging file settings to try to solve another problem that usually has nothing to do with their paging file and resolve things inefficiently.

  This could mean that the settings have been adjusted for certain values that don't make sense for the configuration of the system.  Unless we know the system better, you can't just pick certain values out of the air and that your system behaves effectively.  You might not see the message again, but this does not mean that the settings are correct.

  This could mean that the settings have never been properly in the first place when you first install of XP and things must be properly configured.

  Sometimes, as your system configuration changes over time and other applications are running and get bigger, you may add additional RAM to your system to accommodate things (or run the number of requests).

  At least that learn you more about managing memory than Windows XP, it is usually best to simply let XP manage the size of your virtual memory paging file.

  To see what your current, make settings right click post work, properties, advanced, performance settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory, and then click the button change.

  Make a note of the current settings in case you need to change their return more later.

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

  System managed size

  Right click my computer, properties, Advanced tab, Performance... Settings, Advanced tab, virtual memory... Change.

  Note the current setting, so you can change things later if you have a problem.

  If it is already done, on the size of swap file:

  System managed size

  Don't forget to click on Set (to be defined), OK (several times) and then restart your computer.

  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 your system is not set to the size of the managed system, you must determine how it changed and why (usually a bad reason), make a note of the current settings to change them back later if necessary, and then change the setting to the size of the managed system, click on the Set button and then click on apply to apply the changes (you will be asked to restart).

  "Because someone told me to" is not a good reason to start making adjustments to the size of pagefile.  Setting just above to enlarge it by an arbitrary value can ease the symptoms of the problem and stop message, but may not result in the best configuration for your system.

  All the advice to 'Increase the value of the initial and maximum size to a higher value' are misinformed ideas that come from not knowing how to work XP - How do you increase it and what happens if you increase too?

  If you want your system to operate as efficiently as possible, you must understand what is happening and fix it properly and not only begin to try things or make some arbitrary adjustments.

  The size of the pagefile can really need adjustment, but you should at least try to know what you're doing and why you need to do.  It is unlikely that anyone can tell you how to adjust your settings properly without more information.

  If you don't know what are the best settings, or if you are not sure what should be your settings and need help looking at your stuff, follow these steps:

  Since the implementation of the Microsoft Answers forum does not ask for any kind of information system when a new question is asked, we know absolutely nothing about your system.  Not knowing the basic information a problem prolongs the frustration and the agony of these issues.

  Thank you MS Answers, allowing the resolution of simple problems as frustrating and a lot of time as possible.

  Provide information on your system, the better you can:

  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, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc..

  Click Start, run and enter in the box:

  Msinfo32

  Click OK, and when the system info summary appears, click on edit, select all (Ctrl-A), copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) the information back here in your next reply.

  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.

  This minimize back Q & A and eliminate the guesswork and assumptions.