what is virtual memory as my computer did say i was low on it how?

Question

can i improve it thanks D

Answer 1

Virtual memory is automatically controlled by windows, there should be no need for you to adjust it.


Your messages are probably caused by spyware, adware and viruses eating up all your physical memory.

Run full scans for them, remove any infections and then see how it goes.

If that doesn't help, you would be better off just buying more physical ram, as that will actually increase your computers performance overall.

Answer 2

If a computer running Windows requires more memory/RAM then there is installed in the system to run a program, etc, it uses a small section of the hard drive for this purpose. This is called “Virtual” memory, or “Swap Filling”. If the “Swap” file is to small, then you will get a warning that the system can’t perform the operation that you have requested because sufficient “Virtual” memory isn’t available.

You need to enlarge the size of your “virtual memory/swap file”. So, do the following.

Right click “My Computer” and choose “Properties”.
In the “System Properties” window, click the “Advanced” tab.
Under “Performance”, click “Settings”.
In the “Performance Options” window, click “Advanced”.
Under “Virtual memory”, click “Change”.

Increase the size of the “Paging file” so that it is at least twice the size of your RAM. You can increase the size to “Maximum”, it won’t hurt your system at all.


Best cure.

If you really want to eliminate this problem, all you need do is to install more “Memory/RAM”.

Answer 3

virtual memory is how much hardrive space you have get another hardrive and you will have more virtual memory and phisical memory is like how much ram you have like 1gig or so

and hardrives are useualy alot bigger that ram like 500gig or 100gig and bigger and smaller