The person who gave me a detail procedure to go on Control Panel and System, when I get to Advance Tab - I cannot click Change Button, this does not exist on that Tab, I have a Dell desktop Windows XP2, sorry to bother you, is there something else I can do to get more virtual memory?
2007-08-28 08:30:21 · 5 answers · asked by duchy1920 on the sunny side of 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
The paging file is the area on the hard disk that Windows uses as if it were random access memory (RAM) This is sometimes known as "virtual memory." By default, Windows stores this file on the same partition as the Windows system files. You can increase the performance of Windows, and increase free space on the boot partition, by moving this file to a different partition.
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How to Move the Paging File
1. Log on to the computer as Administrator.
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
4. Click the Advanced tab, and then under Performance, click Settings.
5. Click the Advanced tab, and then under Virtual memory, click Change.
6. In the Drive [Volume Label] list, click a drive other than the one on which Windows is installed (Windows is usually installed on the drive C). Under Total paging file size for all drives, note the value that is displayed next to Recommended.
7. Click Custom size, and then type the recommended value in the Initial size (MB) box.
8. Type the maximum size that you want to allow for paging in the Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
9. In the Drive [Volume Label] box, click the drive on which Windows is installed (usually the drive C), and then use one of the following steps:
• If you do not want a paging file on the drive, click No paging file, and then click Set. A message similar to the following message appears:
If the pagefile on volume C: has an initial size of less than 126 megabytes, then the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs.
Continue anyway?
Click Yes.
• If you want to keep the minimum size of the paging file on the drive, click Custom size, and then type a value that is equal to or greater than the amount of RAM in the computer in the Initial size (MB) box. Type that same value in the Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
10. The following message appears:
The changes you have made require you to restart your computer before they can take effect.
Click OK, click OK, click OK, and then click Yes when you are prompted to restart the computer.
2007-08-28 08:37:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click Start--control panel--Advanced system settings--performance settings--advanced--virtual memory paging file.
2007-08-28 15:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by Nemo the geek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chances are you have something running in the background using up your memory. Run task manager and click on performance. Look at CPU usage. If it is above 10% while you are just looking at that, You have picked up a trojan hijacker that is installed. Restore to previous date and see if this helps.
Go to HELP and Support. type in Virtual memory in Search. Follow steps to reach COMPUTER MANAGEMENT local.
You want to right-click COMPUTER MANAGEMENT local.
Look for properties. go to advanced. look for virtual memory, and look at the page management. if it's around 400MB or set to system management, leave it there.
2007-08-28 15:49:06 · answer #3 · answered by mruiztx@prodigy.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RIGHT Click on my computer, goto properties, advanced, performance settings, advanced, then go to paging file on the bottom and change...
then change it to manually adjusted paging file and set it to the amount of ram you have x2 so if you have 512 SET THE MAX TO 1024 and min to 512
2007-08-28 15:42:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its there .. controlpanel / perf-maint / system / advanced / performance / settings / advanced / virtual memory ..
2007-08-28 15:34:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋