Re: XP and RAM

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I did go in and increase it but I wasn't sure how much to increase it by. I
have noticed some improvement in speed. The rest of your answer was really
technical and I sorta glazed over there at the end. lol. Thanks for your
response.

"Glen" wrote:

You are getting the warning because your computer has a fixed upper limit
for virtual memory. Firstly open control panel | system | advanced |
performance | settings and click advanced tab. At the bottom you will see
virtual memory. Click change and you will probably see your computer is
setup as custom size. Click your main drive C: then click 'system managed'
and click 'set'. OK your way out, ignore the warning about 0 mb size page
file and reboot.

That will allow your virtual memory to grow and shrink as needed.

As you are getting a warning you would probably find your computer
performance will increase if you fit more ram. Virtual memory is part of
your hard drive mapped out as RAM and it will always be slower than real
RAM. That assumes your computer can take more RAM. Older computers can only
take 512mb RAM. If you can add more take it up to 1GB and you will notice an
improvement.

I think pentium 3 were limited to 512mb and pentium 4 started at 2GB and up
max ram. I dont know about AMDs and yes I know its the chipset that dictates
ram amount but cpu goes hand in hand with chipset and most people will know
what cpu they have but wont know the chipset.
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Please repost if you find the fault

Glen P
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"Christy" <Christy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am a total idiot when it comes to computers. I have 512mb of RAM but I
got
a message today that my virtual memory is too low. So should I buy more
RAM
and if so how do I find out how much I should add??? Thanks so much for
any
help!!

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

Windows XP supports up to 4GB of RAM. Your motherboard
is the limiting factor as to how much RAM it is designed to support.

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"Michaelh" wrote:

| Does XP support more than 512k RAM?




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