virtual memory

[fudge]

I often get a message appear saying virtual memory is low, windows is expanding memory
what is this about as it often happens. thanks

[Hom3r]

What version of windows are you running?

I'll assume your running XP Home

Right-click on My Computer

Click Advanced Tab

Setting on Perfomance

Click on Advanced Tab

Click on Change in Virtual Memory

Make sure That System managed size is selected

You can select Custom size, but I can't recall what sizes to use.

You will be prompted to restart you system, so save anything first.

basically your running out of useable ram and your pc uses a portion of hdd as memory,your also running out of this, to alter the sizes you need to look in control panel,system,advanced performance,virtual memory,
this is xp but 98/me is similar
Size it to about 1.5xmin size 3x max your ram,I advise making min and max sizes the same as this is then static and does not fragment,I always set this high as i have huge hdd's but a gig ish should be fine

One thing I would look at also is extra ram in your pc

I see David edited his post to include same info I did