Error: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low

[John Barnett - MVP]

Go to Start/Control Panel and click the System icon. in
the system window click the Advanced tab and then click
the Settings button under the Performance option. in the
Performance window click the Advanced tab. At the bottom
of the window you will see a section marked Virtual
Memory. Click the Change button. In the section marked
Paging file size for selected drive enable the Custom
radio button by clicking on it with your mouse. This
allows you to enter figures into the Initial Size and
Maximum Size boxes. Now apply the following formula.

Your initial memory plus half again.

I.e if you have 256MB of memory it will look like this:

256 + 128 (128 is half of 256) = 384MB

So in the Minimum box type 384
In the Maximum box type 384

Next click the Set button followed by Ok.

See if that makes a difference.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP Home as my operating system and have
>recently bought a scanner. However, after installing it
I
>get the above error message displayed as a heading and
the
>following "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows
>is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging
file.
>During this process, memory requests for some
applications
>may be denied." after it in a pop up. Therafter my
>programme is closed. How do I fix this?
>.
>