Windows Virtual Memory Low

White_Widow · 2 Sep 2007 at 22:49

I keep getting messages saying Windows Virtual Memory low since I have deleted my partitions that had Kubuntu on.

I have deleted the partitions and fixed the mbr to remove the grub. I have just put all the free space into one partition and left no free space as im going to buy an external hard drive this week and put most things on there but I still have about 12gb free space.

The virtual memory is set for windows do it automatically.

From what I am reading I might of deleted something but accident when playing around with my files.. i think this is called a pagefile?

Could someone please help me I'm not very good with this side of computers.

Thank you

mk17 · 2 Sep 2007 at 23:05

If you're on xp:
go to control panel, system, advanced tab, and click on Settings in the Performance panel.

Click the performance options advanced tab, and click the Change button on the Virtual Memory panel.

Ensure that your page file is set appropriately - ideally set it to System managed, but its up to you.

hth

White_Widow · 3 Sep 2007 at 00:13

Yes I have got it set it system managed already. this is why i cant work out what is wrong.

mk17 · 3 Sep 2007 at 02:16

maybe try manually setting it to the c: drive, with 2GB initial, 4GB max ?

Admiral Huddy · 4 Sep 2007 at 12:20

If the page file doesn't exist, it will create it.

CTL-ALT_DEL > Task mananger > Performance tab..

Look at the PF usage... Is the bar over half way?

White_Widow · 11 Sep 2007 at 23:55

Yes it is about 3 /4 full with around 700mb being used.

Mattus · 12 Sep 2007 at 01:53

How much RAM do you have in this system?

Admiral Huddy · 12 Sep 2007 at 10:23

White_Widow said:
Yes it is about 3 /4 full with around 700mb being used.

then your system is paging too much... you may need to look at more RAM..

http://www.huddysworld.co.uk/Techpages/PCZone_TechieTalk_4.shtml

White_Widow · 12 Sep 2007 at 23:05

Thank you for your help. I thought I might need more ram. I have 512mb at the moment with XP running. I am going to replace the 2 x 256mb sticks in my laptop with 2 x 1gb sticks do you think this will solve the problem then because at the minute my laptop is nearly coming to a standstill and I dont use it for much only browsing etc.

mk17 · 12 Sep 2007 at 23:22

512MB -> 2GB should solve a lot of probs, mate

including your page-file.

White_Widow · 14 Sep 2007 at 10:15

OK I will do that. Is there anything else I can do to speed up the computer except re format it? It seems to be a lot slower than what it was when I first got it. I am also going to buy an external harddrive for my music etc because it is taking up a lot of space on the disk.

mk17 · 14 Sep 2007 at 22:25

prior to a reformat/reinstall, try defragmenting the h/d - it might save you the hassle. Maybe also uninstall any unnecessary software/services that are consuming cycles.

pegasus1 · 15 Sep 2007 at 13:20

512mb for XP is on the very limit if you have plenty of apps running in the background. Have a look at your memory usage, it may be running at arounf 200 - 300mb at idle which means as soon as you load a program you will be out of RAM and the OS will need to access the page file.
2 Gig will help massively