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Old March 3rd 05, 06:10 AM
wrtfilms
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Default DANGEROUSLY LOW VIRTUAL MEMORY!

Hello... I keep getting a warning that my "Virtual Memory" is dangerously
Low! My system has been running very slowly lately and I cleared our some of
my hard drive (5.5G available)... Not running anything extraordinary and I
have an updated subscription to Norton and run a scan everyday... Cleaned
out all the "spyware"...

Someone please help me with my slow system that apparently is low in virtual
memory (whatever that really means...)

Many thanks in advance.

-Lee

PS This slowness is a recent occurrence - the system seems to drag
endlessly.


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Old March 3rd 05, 06:29 AM
Will Denny
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Hi

Please try the following article by Alex Nichol:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

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"wrtfilms" wrote in message
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Hello... I keep getting a warning that my "Virtual Memory" is dangerously
Low! My system has been running very slowly lately and I cleared our some
of my hard drive (5.5G available)... Not running anything extraordinary
and I have an updated subscription to Norton and run a scan everyday...
Cleaned out all the "spyware"...

Someone please help me with my slow system that apparently is low in
virtual memory (whatever that really means...)

Many thanks in advance.

-Lee

PS This slowness is a recent occurrence - the system seems to drag
endlessly.



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Old March 3rd 05, 06:30 AM
Jerry
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Default DANGEROUSLY LOW VIRTUAL MEMORY!

What is the size of your swap file (also known as virtual memory)? My
Computer Properties Advanced Performance Settings Advanced Virtual
Memory

"wrtfilms" wrote in message
...
Hello... I keep getting a warning that my "Virtual Memory" is dangerously
Low! My system has been running very slowly lately and I cleared our some
of my hard drive (5.5G available)... Not running anything extraordinary
and I have an updated subscription to Norton and run a scan everyday...
Cleaned out all the "spyware"...

Someone please help me with my slow system that apparently is low in
virtual memory (whatever that really means...)

Many thanks in advance.

-Lee

PS This slowness is a recent occurrence - the system seems to drag
endlessly.



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Old March 3rd 05, 12:25 PM
Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers
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Default DANGEROUSLY LOW VIRTUAL MEMORY!

Hi,

Do you have Intel Application Accelerator installed? If so, you need to
uninstall it and install the latest version. The older ones are incompatible
with WinXP and can cause this error message.

If not, then try this: Go to System properties/advanced/performance
settings/advanced tab/virtual memory change and disable the swap file.
Reboot. Delete all instances of pagefile.sys from all drives should any
exist, then reverse the original steps and reenable the swap file. Reboot
once more to finish. See if this helps,

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"wrtfilms" wrote in message
...
Hello... I keep getting a warning that my "Virtual Memory" is dangerously
Low! My system has been running very slowly lately and I cleared our some
of my hard drive (5.5G available)... Not running anything extraordinary
and I have an updated subscription to Norton and run a scan everyday...
Cleaned out all the "spyware"...

Someone please help me with my slow system that apparently is low in
virtual memory (whatever that really means...)

Many thanks in advance.

-Lee

PS This slowness is a recent occurrence - the system seems to drag
endlessly.



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Old March 3rd 05, 04:11 PM
Jim
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"wrtfilms" wrote in message
...
Hello... I keep getting a warning that my "Virtual Memory" is dangerously
Low! My system has been running very slowly lately and I cleared our some

of
my hard drive (5.5G available)... Not running anything extraordinary and I
have an updated subscription to Norton and run a scan everyday... Cleaned
out all the "spyware"...

Someone please help me with my slow system that apparently is low in

virtual
memory (whatever that really means...)

Many thanks in advance.

-Lee

PS This slowness is a recent occurrence - the system seems to drag
endlessly.

This message usually means that the pagefile is too small. Be certain that
there is adequate free space on the disk. Let Windows manage the size of
the pagefile.
Jim



 




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