Virtual memory

DCFC79

Ive just turned the pc on and when it got to the desktop a warning poped up about the pc running low on VMM and to increase the paging file, the warning shouldnt come up that soon right, is increasing the paging file the only way to solve it

skronk

I had same last week. Added more RAM memory. Machine now flying. Dealt with Mr. Memory. Good, efficient and cheap.

John_Gray

Some more details would help people in offering an opinion about whether you should buy more memory, like:

• operating system?
• amount of real memory in your PC?
• what programs you run together at the same time?

The usual answer is that additional real memory will improve matters, but there's no point spending money if you don't need to!

mdbarber

yes it can easily come up at start if you have low ram and lots of programs loading at start up, to not spend money;
1.do a disk clean up
2 use msconfig, to stop programs loading at start up
3 reboot and defrag
should stop it happening for a while

DCFC79

John_Gray wrote: »

Some more details would help people in offering an opinion about whether you should buy more memory, like:

• operating system?
• amount of real memory in your PC?
• what programs you run together at the same time?

The usual answer is that additional real memory will improve matters, but there's no point spending money if you don't need to!

yes i forgot to add these:

OS is XP
real memory as in ram is 1.48GB
well the warning appeared when it was at the desktop so no programs had been opened but looking at msconfig theres my anti virus and firewall to start on start up

ive checked and i can install another half a gig of ram,

skronk

DCFC79 wrote: »

yes i forgot to add these:

OS is XP
real memory as in ram is 1.48GB
well the warning appeared when it was at the desktop so no programs had been opened but looking at msconfig theres my anti virus and firewall to start on start up

Sorry. More RAM required. This will solve your problem making your machine faster and slicker.

Get some now !!!!!!!!!:rotfl:

[Deleted User]

How much room is there left on your hard drive?

DCFC79

skronk wrote: »

Sorry. More RAM required. This will solve your problem making your machine faster and slicker.

Get some now !!!!!!!!!:rotfl:

ok thanks skronk

DCFC79

anewhope wrote: »

How much room is there left on your hard drive?

the main hard drive has 411 GB of space then theres the 2 external drives with 185 GB on 1 ext drive and 290 GB on the other

ManAtHome

1.4GB of ram is lots... Do you normally hibernate the PC - if so, try restarting instead (should only need to do this occasionally).

DCFC79

ManAtHome wrote: »

1.4GB of ram is lots... Do you normally hibernate the PC - if so, try restarting instead (should only need to do this occasionally).

i dont hibernate well i hibernated it once but not since, its just happened so i dont know why it happened now, im doing a defrag now so ill see if that helps