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November 25th 09, 08:43 PM
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Virtual memory minimum too low
"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 24, 3:47 am, "bm" wrote: When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair Unless you (or someone who set up your computer) knows more about managing memory that XP, set the system up to "System managed size". Reboot. If you still see the messages regarding virtual memory they are not errors, but instead informational messages telling you that XP is doing it's job. If you still have the message, THEN decide what to do and if anything needs to be adjusted. Some installed programs have optional components that consume a lot of VM and you may not need them. Right now, it is anybody's guess. Merely looking at things and guessing will not make the message go away. We can look at your system at determine with certainty where your VM is going and what to do about it if needed. Please provide additional information about your system. Click Start, Run and in the box enter: msinfo32 Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here. There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information. This will minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork. Unfortunately I got the following message "Cannot access the Windows Management Instrumentation Software Windows Management files may be moved or missing Blair 
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November 25th 09, 10:54 PM
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It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message ... What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417 -- -- "bm" wrote in message ... When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair
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Virtual memory minimum too low
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It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message ... What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417 -- -- "bm" wrote in message ... When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair
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November 26th 09, 05:01 PM
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Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message ... What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417 -- -- "bm" wrote in message ... When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair
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November 26th 09, 05:01 PM
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Virtual memory minimum too low
Many thanks
Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message ... What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417 -- -- "bm" wrote in message ... When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair
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November 28th 09, 08:29 PM
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Virtual memory minimum too low
On Nov 26, 12:01*pm, "bm" wrote:
*Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope *this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope *this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption *and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? *and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now.
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November 28th 09, 08:29 PM
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Virtual memory minimum too low
On Nov 26, 12:01*pm, "bm" wrote:
*Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope *this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope *this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption *and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? *and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now.
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November 29th 09, 03:20 PM
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"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 12:01 pm, "bm" wrote: Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now. Thanks for your help I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Blair
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November 29th 09, 03:20 PM
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"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 12:01 pm, "bm" wrote: Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now. Thanks for your help I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Blair
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November 30th 09, 02:27 PM
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On Nov 29, 10:20*am, "bm" wrote:
"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 12:01 pm, "bm" wrote: Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. *You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! *But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. *If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now. Thanks for your help I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Blair Unfortunately that is all I have in my suggestion box for that situation. If you want to pursue it, some Google searches for that message may help.
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November 30th 09, 02:27 PM
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On Nov 29, 10:20*am, "bm" wrote:
"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 12:01 pm, "bm" wrote: Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. *You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! *But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. *If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now. Thanks for your help I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Blair Unfortunately that is all I have in my suggestion box for that situation. If you want to pursue it, some Google searches for that message may help.
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November 30th 09, 02:36 PM
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"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 29, 10:20 am, "bm" wrote: "Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 12:01 pm, "bm" wrote: Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now. Thanks for your help I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Blair Unfortunately that is all I have in my suggestion box for that situation. If you want to pursue it, some Google searches for that message may help. Thanks for your help Blair
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November 30th 09, 02:36 PM
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"Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 29, 10:20 am, "bm" wrote: "Jose" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 12:01 pm, "bm" wrote: Many thanks Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair It would be worth increasing provided you cannot reduce existing usage by changing the way you use the computer. Practical -please see manual http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...n/SM/specs.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ bm wrote: I had a suspicion that more RAM was required My PC is a Dell Desktop 1100 and has 512MB RAM Would it be worth increasing it to 1GB and is it practical? Blair "Gerry" wrote in message ... Blair Add more RAM. What is your computer make and model? Changing to a system managed pagefile may eliminate the virtual memory messages but will not help performance as you have insufficient RAM. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gerry wrote: Blair Do you have plenty of free disk space? You can set a larger maximum pagefile but it is normally better to add RAM. Accessing RAM is quicker than accessing the pagefile. Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? bm wrote: Thanks for your reply I have 512 MB RAM My min setting is 768 MB and Max is 1536 MB Which is approx 1.5 and 3 times the RAM size as recommended Should I change these? Blair "David B." wrote in message . .. What is it set to? See step 2 here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417-- -- "bm" wrote in message .. . When I am viewing I Player I often get an interruption and a message "Virtual Memory Minimum too low" Can I change this? and if so how? Blair If you add more RAM and do not change the way the paging file is managed (by letting Windows do it), you will have more RAM, but your paging file will not have changed. You may not need to add more RAM to alleviate the message. I have half the RAM you do! But we are not all going to be running the same things... You can fix your msinfo32 issue: On the Desktop, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage. Under Services and Applications, click Services, and then stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service. If asked about stopping other services (Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)), respond in the affirmative. Delete all of the files and folder that are in the c:\Windows \System32\Wbem\Repository folder (they will be recreated when you reboot). Immediately restart the computer to the Firewall will be restarted. The Repository folder information is recreated when the computer restarts. Try msinfo32 now. Thanks for your help I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Blair Unfortunately that is all I have in my suggestion box for that situation. If you want to pursue it, some Google searches for that message may help. Thanks for your help Blair
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November 30th 09, 03:24 PM
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Virtual memory minimum too low
bm wrote:
I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Try he http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm John
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November 30th 09, 03:24 PM
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Virtual memory minimum too low
bm wrote: I carried out your instructions but I still ended with the message "Can't access the Windows management Instrumentation Software. Windows management may be moved or missing" Try he http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm John
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