Re: How can I increase Virtual Memory?

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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:13:52 GMT, Robert Montgomery
<info-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How can I increase Virtual Memory?

I went to Search and typed "Virtual Memory" but nothing appeared.

The computer is so slow now.


Increasing virtual memory will not make the computer faster.

Instead of assuming that that's the answer to your problem, you should
find out what's made the computer slow. Please answer the following
questions:

1. Has it always been slow or is this a recent occurrence? If it's
recent, when did it happen?

2. What did you do or change just before it got slow? Change or add
hardware? Install new software?

3. What anti-virus and anti-spyware software do you run? Do you keep
it all up to date?

4. What programs do you have starting automatically when you boot? Has
that list changed?

The computer slowed after I installed a security package. The security package is set to automatically download updates daily from the ISP.

The speed of the computer increased again after I deactivated the virus protection segment of the security package, but I reinstated the virus protection because it's important.


I'm frequently getting a message saying that Virtual Memeory is low, and that Windows will increase the Virtual Memory automatically to compensate.

I saw somewhere in Properties that Windows is set to adjust Virtual Memory automatically for the programs.

Robert


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