RE: Low Virtual memory

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From: Caz (Caz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:20:20 -0700

"caz" wrote:

> I know this comes up a lot, so apologies and feel free to
> roll your eyes.
>
> A few days ago my PC started running slow and giving me low
> virtual memory messages. I'm only using screenwriting
> software - no games programmes. I've tried increasing the
> paging file size and also tried to do a system restore but
> there wasn't a restore point older than 3 days. I've also
> disk cleaned and defragged.
>
> My PC has 512 mb RAM. The hard drive is almost empty. I've
> never had any problems with it until now. I read this
> article: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm and think maybe
> the page file has become corrupt as a result of a bad
> shutdown (my PC sometimes hangs at shutdown). His proposed
> solution is this: "In the Virtual Memory setting, set to
> "No page file," then exit System Properties, shut down the
> machine, and reboot. Delege PAGFILE.SYS, set the page file
> up again and reboot to bring it into use."
>
> Could some kind soul please give me idiot-proof,
> step-by-step instructions as to how to do this and where to
> go to carry out each step?
>
> Thanks
>
> Caz
>

Thanks to all for their helpful suggestions. I tried to delege the pagefile.sys but it came us as file not found on my computer. Very odd. So I'm still stuck.

I'll look through the responses to see what else I can try. This problem came on very suddenly and I'm not using memory-greedy programmes, so I'm mystified.

Caz