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What switches the Vista Virtual Memory Paging File off?
emc
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Has anyone else on Vista had a pop-up saying that virtual memory is low and advising that Firefox should be closed down?
I use Vista Home on a 1 GB pc, and yesterday started getting a pop-up about low virtual memory advising that Firefox should be closed.
Windows task manager showed memory use of 75%, mostly Firefox with 60,000 kb and dwm.exe with 47,000 kb.
I followed advice from a website to check the System Properties / Performance Options and found that the paging file had been switched off!
I switched the paging file back on with a size of 3000mb, when there was a warning that pagefile.sys already existed. I opted to overwrite the existing file, and now the low memory message no longer appear.
Other than apply Vista service pack 1, a while ago, I am not aware of making any changes that could have switched the paging file off, so do any of you Vista experts know what could have caused this problem?
I use Vista Home on a 1 GB pc, and yesterday started getting a pop-up about low virtual memory advising that Firefox should be closed.
Windows task manager showed memory use of 75%, mostly Firefox with 60,000 kb and dwm.exe with 47,000 kb.
I followed advice from a website to check the System Properties / Performance Options and found that the paging file had been switched off!
I switched the paging file back on with a size of 3000mb, when there was a warning that pagefile.sys already existed. I opted to overwrite the existing file, and now the low memory message no longer appear.
Other than apply Vista service pack 1, a while ago, I am not aware of making any changes that could have switched the paging file off, so do any of you Vista experts know what could have caused this problem?
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Only you could have made, or authorised the change, since it requires elevation with UAC to get there to even look at the settings.0
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