Advice sought re memory

From: Robin McInnes (robin_at_sp-amtr-ap.billycorps.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:43:41 +0100

Hi,

I wonder is anyone can help me with what I believe to be a memory
problem. My PC seems to be running very slowly, with lots of disc access
activity involved in even the most apparently simple processes, such as
opening an application. I suspected a shortage of memory.

I am running Win XP Pro SP1 on a machine fitted with a 1.00GHz Intel
Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM and an 18.6GB hard drive.

However, I've just done a system information check on the memory with
the following results, which seem a bit on the low side to me:

Total physical memory = 128.00MB (which is as expected)
Available physical memory = 15.32MB (which is a WHOLE LOT LESS than I
expected)
Total virtual memory = 441.98MB
Available virtual memory = 157.45MB
Pagefile size = 315.5MB (although properties of c:\pagefile.sys says it
is only 200MB)

The figure which alarms me the most is the available physical one. The
check was done with no application running, only system idle processes,
and yet something seems to be eating up over 112MB.

Is such a small available fraction of the total normal? Is there
anything I can do to improve it? Or am I just resigned to going out and
buying some more memory modules?

Thanks in advance. 

-- 
Cheers,
Robin
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