Windows: Low on Virtual Memory! How do I increase the memory paging file?

Question

Am a "newbie"..so give me a "friendly user" answer. Thanks.

Answer 1

When your computer runs low on physical memory, thats what your ram is, physical memory, it can use a portion of the hard drive to write extra memory to, this is called virtual memory.
Here is how to increase your virtual memory.

Right click my computer, and click properties.
Click the "advanced" tab, where you see performance, click "settings". Now click the "change" button under virtual memory.
Select "custom", in the box for "initial size", enter the number 1500, then in the "maximum size", enter the number 2000.
Click "set". Click "ok" to close the box. Now click "apply" then ok to close that window, and now you have up to 2 gig's of virtual memory....

This is still only a temporary fix, your computer will run alot slower when it writes to the disk for virtual memory....check out the link and try to get at least 512 mb extra of ram....

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...

Answer 2

Step by step...
1. you go to your desktop, click in the My Computer icon with the right button, select "properties"
2. click on the tab "advanced"
3. under the box "performance" click the button "settings"
4. click in the tab "advanced"
5. under the box "virtual memory" click the button "change"
6. select the drive (normally C), select the option you want (if you have a big harddrive, select "system managed size" - best option), and click in the button "set"
7. click "Ok" and that's it
you might need to restart the computer after this for the settings take effect...you can also follow the same steps to verify if the settings were done
Good luck

Answer 3

Simple

Windows XP

Rt Click on the "My Computer" Icon and click properties
From the Tabs you see at the top Chose "Advanced" Click "Performance"
From the New set of tabs you see chose "Advanced" now
on the bottom you should see the rest of what you need, the current page file size and a change button

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Answer 4

This problem can be sloved by disabling a few programs from the windows startup list and freeing space on the C drive by deleting some files from My Documents folder(copy them on cd before deleting). Also use a temp files and registry cleaner to make more space.

Answer 5

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