Re: howhow to increase my vitual memory...

Hi tagoy,

The amount of physical ram installed is not the source of your problem,
though if all you have is 128MB then you would definitely benefit from an
increase. Virtual Memory is use of the hard drive to supplement the physical
ram, this is called paging and the file used for virtual memory is the
pagefile.sys. You will find it on the root of the boot drive. Three things
normally cause this "virtual memory too low" error:

1) You have placed a restriction on this under the system applet. On the
advanced tab click on performance settings, then on that advanced tab click
change. What is the maximum size? Sometimes people cap it at less than 4096,
and this is a mistake.

2) You are running out of disk space on the drive that holds the virtual
memory, so it cannot expand enough to accomodate the system's requirements.
Check the amount of disk space available on the drive/volume that holds the
paging file. If necessary, you may need to do some disk cleanup.

3) Do you have Intel Application Accelerator installed? If so, you need to
uninstall it and install the latest version. The older ones are incompatible
with WinXP and can cause this error message.

If not, then try this: Go to System properties/advanced/performance
settings/advanced tab/virtual memory change and disable the swap file.
Reboot - the system will probably be very slow, but let it complete all
normal processes. Delete all instances of pagefile.sys from all drives
should any exist, then reverse the original steps and reenable the swap
file. Reboot once more to finish. See if this helps.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"tagoy" <tagoy.1ykwnh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> my pc's memory is 128MB..eveytime i will play games in my computer
> there's a phrase in toolbars saying "virual memory too low"..pls tell
> me how to increase my virtual memory so that i can play my games
> without "lagging" or "disturbing my playtime...thanks!
>
>
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> tagoy


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