low pagefile warning help!

my_computer · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:21

hi, my girlfriends rubbish laptop is really slow and today she got a pagefile warning about there not being... enough..
she doesn't want to buy any ram, and i know the pagefile can be increased to improve performance? i dont have any idea what would be safe to change things to though. heres some pictures to help illustrate things

her hard drive has 8.01 gb free on an 38.7 gb drive

help me so she stops using my computer!!

Breeny · 18 Nov 2008 at 23:37

At work, dependant on machine of course... normally we tend to use the initial size as 1.5X the RAM, and the maximum size as 3.5X the RAM.

P.S. this is probably best in the Windows forum

Happy · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:32

As above, but also I imagine with 60 processes running you could trim several to free up resources

Amnesia · 19 Nov 2008 at 00:54

usually a quick way to free up space is to disable system restore.
that will delete all previous restore points and free up space on all drives that it is enabled on.

then just enable it again.

oh yeah...and wrong section

my_computer · 19 Nov 2008 at 11:17

ok thanks for the help. i'll try that restore trick and get rid of some rubbish. can this be moved by the mods?

jeggsy · 22 Nov 2008 at 00:11

1st glance at that would be to see if you could do a memory upgrade on it as memory is cheap and easy to do.

I normally set my Pagefile to be at least 1.5x your RAM and set Min & Max to the same value.

I usually turn off system restore as if you catch a virus or other nasty, this gets pulled into this area which you don't want as it makes getting rid of it a whol lot harder and also slows your system down/take up disk space.

Go through your start-up items and taskbar and see what you need or don't need. Things like printers, digi-cams etc can put things in your start-up that puts a drain on your system resources.