Can I transfer programs from Physical memory to Virtural memory?

Answer 1

no, you can't

Windows temporary create Virtual memory whenever you run out off physical memory (that's when you see your system getting slower and slower like a drag). Virtual memory is using part of your HD.

I would suggest to add more RAM to help your system runs faster, so it won't need the use of Virtual mem.

Answer 2

Hi there.

I have no idea why you would want to do that. The advantage of using physical memory (RAM chips) over virtual memory (space set aside on the hard drive to act as RAM) is speed and efficiency. As well, the computer kernel and system itself of the OS and hardware can not be controlled in what program can be forced to run from, memory wise. Otherwise, there'd be a lot of occurances of fatal system errors and instability if the user were to have control over such complex memory handling. The OS as well as the hardware has special built-in coding within the chipset as well from the OS itself (eg. Windows), to maximize the memory handling efficiency for the apps with minimal system compromise automatically with the least amount of exterior user interferance.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Probably by reducing your Physical Memory and Increasing your Virtual Memory. But I would not advise it, because it will slow your computer down, as Virtual Memory is actually a part on the hard drive, and that is much slower than physical memory.

Answer 4

Nope, you can't do this. Programs run in physical memory. Virtual memory is just an external storage area on disk which acts like an extension of physical memory. Pieces of physical memory, called pages, are "swapped" out to the disk when they aren't being used. This allows pages to be swapped in from disk to physical memory, so other programs can run.

The operating system takes care of all of this swapping automatically.

Answer 5

That's what your computer does when you execute software. (at least on Windows). When you call up an executable (let's say you start your browser), part of the program is loaded into memory. Some of the program remains on disk (dynamic link libraries for example) Windows takes care of managing physical memory, memory and the combination of both (virtual memory). You don't need to worry about it unless you're a computer programmer who's trying to decide what part of his application should be written in dynamic link libraries.

Answer 6

Actually if you can keep from using virtual memory you would better off.Virtual memory is 10 million times slower than ram.That's not to say to get rid of it or any thing like that.It kicks in when you have to many programs running.

Answer 7

Ha-ha I wish...No virtual memory is hard drive based and most programs REQUIRE physical memory

Answer 8

no.
virtual memory is like RAM, it just runs the program.
physical memory stores the program.
RAM is not always on, and the size of it is much less than your hard disk (physical memory)

Answer 9

NO. I think not.