What about my systems virtual memory?

Question

After I've been online an hour or so, my puter gets real slow then I get a small pop up message telling me my 'systems virtual memory is low & Windows is increasing the size of the virtual memory paging file & that some requests may be denied'...But my system remains slow & I have to shut down then start up again to regain normal speed, so is there something I can do to increase my systems virtual memory so this doesn't occur anymore?

Answer 1

You need to purchase and install additional memory for your computer. Unfortunately, the amount of RAM installed in your computer is not enough to run all of the programs that that your are trying to run at once. Virtual memory uses hard disk space to act as RAM.

For example, if you load the operating system, an e-mail program, a Web browser and word processor into RAM simultaneously, 128 megabytes is not enough to hold it all. If there were no such thing as virtual memory, then once you filled up the available RAM your computer would have to say, "Sorry, you can not load any more applications. Please close another application to load a new one." With virtual memory, what the computer can do is look at RAM for areas that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application.

Answer 2

You could increase the size of yr physical memory. 1GB memory is about standard these days. Windows has a wee trick to compensate for high memory usage applications like games; it creates a cache of storage on yr hard drive which it can access as an extra resource. Unfortunately, it is much slower to access and the best thing you could to would be to go to yr local computer shop and buy some more memory!

Answer 3

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