On the computer it says virtual memory minimum too low what does that mean?

Answer 1

Increase the Virtual Memeory as per Arun has said..

Answer 2

It's a reserved part of PC (hard drive) that once the RAM is used, the virutal memory takes over. You can change the amount of virtual memory by the following steps.
Open Control Panel -->System --> Advanced --> Performance -->Advanced -->Virtual Memory
You can either have your operating system manage it for you, or you can increase it yourself.

Answer 3

When the computer uses up the RAM it uses part of the hard drive as RAM. You can set how much it use manually or have it manage this for itself.
Control Panel > System > Performance (Tab Top) > Virtual Memory (Button Below).
This where it is on mine.

Answer 4

virtual memory refers to the amount of physical space on your hard drive (how many mb) is set aside by your operating system and "reserved". your pc treats this reserved space as if it was RAM (thus it is virtual) assuming you are running xp home, open up the control panel. switch view to classic view, just to make my explanation easier. you can always switch back later. click on the "system" icon, then on the "advanced" tab. click on "settings" under the Performance sub-menu. under the "advanced"tab, click on the sub-menu for virtual memory. WARNING!!!!messing with pagefile settings is for advanced users only. I wouldn't play with too much here. the only thing i recommend trying is setting the pagefile size to "system managed size", then hit set. this is pretty much a default settings and it's letting windows decide how much virtual ram (which equals pagefile size) your computer needs based on your personal settings, programs etc. when u restart your computer, hopefully your problems are solved.

Answer 5

When your computer is running low on RAM, and you must have more RAM immediately, Windows uses hard disk space to simulate RAM. This is known as virtual memory. It is also known as the paging file. This is similar to the UNIX swapfile. By default, the virtual memory paging file (named pagefile.sys) that is created during installation is 1.5 times the RAM on your computer.

You can optimize virtual memory use by dividing the space between multiple drives and by removing space from slow or heavily accessed drives. To best optimize your virtual memory space, divide it among as many physical hard drives as possible. When you select drives, follow these guidelines: • Try to avoid having a paging file on the same drive as the system files.
• Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive such as a mirrored volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not require fault-tolerance, and some fault-tolerant computers experience slow data writes because they write data to multiple locations.
• Do not put multiple paging files on different partitions on the same physical disk drive.

How to manually change the size of the virtual memory paging file
You must be logged on as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. 1. Click Start, click Run, and then type sysdm.cpl in the Open box.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Performance.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Change under Virtual memory.
4. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
5. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, type a new paging file size in megabytes (MB) in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
If you decrease the size of either the initial or maximum paging file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. When you increase the paging file size, you typically do not have to restart your computer.

Notes• To have Windows select the best paging file size, click System managed size. The recommended minimum size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer, and 3 times that figure for the maximum size. For example, if you have 256 MB of RAM, the minimum size is 384 MB, and the maximum size is 1152 MB.
• For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the RAM on your computer. It is good practice to leave the paging file at its recommended size. However, you may increase its size if you frequently use programs that use much memory.
• To delete a paging file, set both the initial size and the maximum size to zero, or click No paging file. We strongly recommend that you do not disable or delete the paging file.

Answer 6

It means your RAM is less. The Operating system (Windows) cannot store stuff in there sufficiently. If this happens all the time replace ur RAM with a bigger one (1 GB crossair - My fave) or if this problem is occasional try freeing up space on C drive and deframent the hard drive.

Answer 7

Go to ur C: Drive & do a disk clean up,then do a defragment on ur system,it could take awhile to do n both of em.Ur system RAM is runnin to low cause u have to much stuff running in ur taskbar & in ur back ground.Good Luck

Answer 8

Your computer is running too many processes that it can handle.
As stated above, try to defrag.

And you might even wanna try to shut off some stuff at startup. You might find some useless processes that you can turn off, it might help.

Select "Run" from the start menu, then type in "Msconfig". A window will popup, select the "Startup" tab and handle from there. Hope it helps.

Answer 9

1) go to start>>all programs >>>> system tools >>>>> disk defragment & disk cleanup. always use these two.
2) delete ur temp files,history. mainly uninstall which programs ur not using
3)right click on my compute r >>> properties >>>>> advance >>>>>> click on "settings" in performance >>>>> advanced >>>>> click onb "change" button in virtual memory >>>>> in custom size type 1000 in both fields >>>>> click on "set" >>>>>> ok

Answer 10

That means you are running low on RAM (Memory), u need to go to your nearest electronics store and buy some memory, unless u have Rambus, which is way more expenseve than DDR