when i'm working on movie maker, sometimes my computer says that i have low virtue memory, what is that?

Question

what do i do to prevent from happening again. Sometimes the computer would just freeze or sometimes would take 2 hours to open my project.

Answer 1

Your computer uses physical memory, aka RAM, and virtual memory. Virtual memory is used to simulate more RAM when your computer is reaching its maximum CPU and RAM usage. It very similar to a bucket filling up with water. If your CPU needs water you can bring this resources to it. But your bucket size is limited. The more programs you use and disk space the more water is needed. But you can only deliver the set amount of water because your bucket size is limited. The bucket is your RAM. However, you can use a spare bucket to quickly to help meet the demand. The virtual memory is that spare bucket.

You can change your virtual memory by altering amount of resources for your computer to use for it, in a sense making the spare bucket bigger. Virtual memory uses free space as a resource. So you can change the the amount free space reserved for the Virtual memory.

When you get to the Virtual Memory menu select the Custom Size check box. Then choose the initial size and the max size. Depending on how much free space you have you can choose what that amount of free space you want. If you are still confused the link below has a visual step by step instructions.

1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4.Under Virtual memory, click Change.
5.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change. In most computers its C:
6.Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to Custom size check box. You can enter the amount of memory you would like to reserve for Virtual memory by entering the initial and maximum size.
7.Click Set

Hot tip: Keep the initial and maximum size the same to cut down on your CPU access. This will stop your CPU from constantly change your Virtual memory paging size. Also set the size 1.5 times higher than your physical memory.

Hope this helps!
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Answer 2

There are 2 types of memory Windows uses, physical memory and virtual memory. Physical memory is a fancy name for the RAM. Oftentimes, the amount of RAM installed on a computer is insufficient, Windows solves this problem by converting some space on the hard drive to act like RAM (i.e. virtual memory). What is important is to know is that RAM is much faster than virtual memory (i.e. RAM better than virtual memory). In your case, you need to increase the size of the hard drive which is converted in to virtual memory. Here is how to do it:

1. Right click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop
2. Select Properties > Advanced tab > under Performance, click [Settings]
3. Select the Advanced tab > under Virtual memory, click [Change].
4. Select Custom Size
5. Set the size of the virtual memory to 1.5x the amount of RAM installed on your computer. (for example, if you have 256MB of RAM then set the virtual memory to 375). Give the same value for both the initial and maximum size.
6. Click [Set] > [O,K.] > [O.K.] > Restart

Since editing video uses a great deal of resources, it is best that you exit from all non essential programs beforehand. This will free up RAM and the CPU for movie maker.

Answer 3

Virutal Memory is the space on your hard drive that is used as memory if your PC starts to run low. You can increase the amount of virtual memory by the following way:

1) go to Control Panel
2) go to System
3) Click on Advanced tab
4) click on the "Settings" button in the Performance section on the Advanced tab
5) click on Advanced tab
6) There is a "Virtual Memory" section toward the bottom of the window click the "Change" button to increase the amount of space you want to use as a paging file.
7) There is an Initial Size and Maximum Size fields where you can specify the amount you want to use.

NOTE: Don't use too much...get more RAM in your PC :)

Answer 4

virtual memory is a temporary and artificial memory for process management...if the virtual memory is low, try it rectified by checking with device manager....

Answer 5

low on RAM

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm

Check your hardware configuration . . .