TOMAS
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Registered: 7th Aug 02
Location: Nottinghamshire
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Hi recently my computer has been telling me its low on 'virtual memory'? what is this and how do I fix it/free some up? Recently my computer has been running quite slow also doing strange things like when I double click on desktop icons i.e internet explorer & my Kazza folder, nothing happens - the egg timer appears for a couple of seconds then nothing? I think these could all be related? - Im running Windows XP.
Really I should do that thing where it goes back to when I last saved everything which was right back at the start when I had installed everything I needed and set up my internet connection etc, this would clear all the crap off. Cheers for any info 
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John_C
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Registered: 5th Mar 03
Location: South east, Bromley
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go to control panel, system, advance, performance settings, advance, virtual memory, change, give it 250mb or sumthing
computer needs virtual memory if it hasn't enough ram to process everything
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TOMAS
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Registered: 7th Aug 02
Location: Nottinghamshire
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Cheers it had something like 380 with a possible 780. I upped it to 500. Why has this only just started happening then? It said something about it uses it when their isnt enough RAM, why would I suddenly not have enough RAM?
I was looking at my system processes in Task Manager the other day and their are some pretty BIG ones! Like ATRACK.EXE and svchost.exe.
Someone said you can spot hackers/trojans by looking at this, how do I know whats supposed to be there and whats not? Anyhow thanks for the help
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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www.pcpitstop.com
Im pretty sure the sytem test on that site will show you all software running, and identifies all the ones that it knows.
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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virtual memory is were it takes some of your HD and uses it as ram
i'd say if your getting messages like that though could be time for a format
windows is really dumb when it gets confused (which is quite alot) and it starts giving out irronious(spelling) fault displays
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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From memory, the suggestion is that you set your virtual memory to use 1.5 - 3.0 times the amount of RAM you have in your machine...
So mine, with 1Gb (1024Mb) of RAM has 1536Mb - 3072Mb in the VM preferences......seems to run quite nicely.
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