Re: Virtual Memory Size?

Chris

It is a good idea to let Windows manage the pagefile.. it seems happier
working out what space is required by itself rather than having a user
setting determine what it can do, regardless of the size specified by the
user..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"Chris Burson" <chrisburson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On my wife, Anna's, laptop I have the hard drive partioned, with the last
> partition used just for temporary files & Virtual Memory. Anna uses some
> massive files (pictures - and a genealogy file size not much smaller than
> the Old Testament) and gets the error
> '... insufficient resources...', at which point everything stops
> responding.
>
> I guessed the 'resources' it lacked referred to memory (system RAM is
> 1GB) -
> but it is just a guess! - and tried to increase the Virtual Memory from
> 3GB
> to lots. But the dialogue box says that 4GB is the maximum.
>
> So - would you put another VM folder on another partition (making 2 x
> 4GB),
> and do you think this would help? Are the 'resources' it lacks really
> memory, or am I particularly dull? Failing that, would another 1GB of RAM
> cure this - not my preferred option at all since laptop memory is very
> expensive, and Anna's Dell Latitude will only accept 2GB maximum, so if it
> isn't enough... oh, dear!
>
> Any guidance & encouragement is much appreciated,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>


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