Re: Out of Hard Drive space with more RAM installed

Grand_Poohbah wrote:

Ted & Ken:

Could the additional RAM make the paging file just a little bit
bigger (if it is being managed by Windows) so as to push the disk for
more space? If so, then this may be why he is getting the warning.


Yes, I hadn't thought of that. If he's using the very poor Windows default
of 1.5 times the amount of RAM, adding 2GB of RAM would use an additional
3GB of hard drive space for the page file. If free disk space were already
low, this would make it lower and could account for what he reports.

If so, the solution to his problemi s to stop using the Windows default page
file size, and lower the size of the page file dramatically. With more RAM,
you need *less* page file, not more.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

Installing additional RAM does not use hard disk space.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Shigure wrote:
I know. I had enough free space before I installed more ram.

When I put in more ram it seems like it used hard drive space, and
now I am low on space.



"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

"Low disk space" means you're running out of room on your hard
disk. Installing more RAM doesn't help.

Start with the Disk Cleanup Wizard (Start > All Programs >
Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Do not "compress old
files".)

---
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Shigure wrote:
Hello, I run Windows XP Pro SP2. I had 1.5 GB of RAM installed (
2x256MB; 2x512MB).
I installed two 1GB sticks of ram to increase my memory (2x1GB;
2x512MB)

Now I get a "Low disk space" alert every time I open a program in
windows.

Is there any way to fix this? I read something similar in the
Knowledge base on the Microsoft website, but it applied to
Win98/ME, not windows XP.

Thanks in advance.


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