Microsoft Windows XP SP3 - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low ?

Question

I'v been getting this ballon pop up quite a bit lately. What does it mean and what should I do about it?

Thanks

Answer 1

start / controlpanel / system /advanced / settings/ advanced / change/



then check custom size and choose 700 for intitial size and maximum of 1500 and click set and ok and ok the rest, and restart and see if that fixes it, if not, then you can try 2000





The problem is that you need a bigger space on your hard drive just for windows to use as a paging file.



If you go to 2000 and you still have a problem, then you probably need some more memory (RAM) so your computer doesn't have to keep writing stuff to the disk, it can just put it into ram.



You should really have at least 1 GB of RAM, otherwise it has to write to the disk a lot. More Ram will make your hard drive have to work less.

Answer 2

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Microsoft Windows XP SP3 - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low ?

I'v been getting this ballon pop up quite a bit lately. What does it mean and what should I do about it?



Thanks

Answer 3

You can restart, if you haven't done so already. If that doesn't fix it, you may have too many programs running at the same time. You can take some out of the start up programs, or extend your virtual memory by rite clicking my computer, properties, advanced tab, advanced tab, change button in virtual memory. You can play around with it then, just change it in small increments to test

Answer 4

To change the size of the virtual memory paging file

You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.



Open System in Control Panel.

On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.

On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.

Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.

Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, and type a new paging file size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.

If you decrease the size of either the initial or maximum page file settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes. Increases typically do not require a restart.



Notes



To open System, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click System.

To have Windows choose the best paging file size, click System managed size.

For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your system. Usually, you should leave the paging file at its recommended size, although you might increase its size if you routinely use programs that require a lot of memory.







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Answer 5

In Windows XP go to My Computer, right click it and then choose Properties, go to the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, then click Settings.



Again click the Advanced tab and then in the Virtual Memory section click Change.



Now you can view and set the parameters you need.



Under Drive, usually C:, click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.



Under Paging file size for selected drive, click SYSTEM MANAGED, and then click Set then OK, OK, OK.....allow the reboot........



You should be ok.

Answer 6

Your virtual memory allocation may have gotten changed somehow.

check to see if it's at the recommended setting. right click on computer go to properties>advanced system settings>click settings under performance>advanced tab>click change under virtual memory and make sure that windows is managing the page allocation for your virtual memory

Answer 7

right click my computer, click properties, on the left side of the screen you will see, advance system settings. click on it. when the systeme properties pop up, go to the "advance" tab, in the performance section, click 'settings". The go to the "advance" tab and you will see your virtual memory. click change. Put the maximum size to the number of memory you have. ie: you got 2 gig, put 2000 Mb

Answer 8

Run Chkdsk , Defrag drives. Start - Settings - control panel - system - advance system settings - Performance settings - virtual mem - increase virtual setting.



Email if you are confused

Pete

Answer 9

if you have many programs open then it will eat memory away or if you keep firefox open for a while it will also eat memory but your computer is just making its virtual memory file bigger but what you might want to do is check for virus's and stuff like that they can also eat memory away

Answer 10

i have xp sp3 too and this happened before. ur RAM is low.

here's a website to explain what too do:



http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/pcproblems.mspx