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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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DANGEROUSLY LOW VIRTUAL MEMORY!
Hi
Please try the following article by Alex Nichol: "Virtual Memory in Windows XP" http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups. "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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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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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, -- 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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DANGEROUSLY LOW 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. 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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