What does 'virtual memomry low' means when it pops out to the desktop for window XP and what should I do?
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Virtual Memory is what Windows uses to free up your RAM.  The virtual memory is stored on your hard drive.  When Windows says your virtual memory is low, that means that you have so many things open that both your RAM and your virtual memory are nearly full.  If this happens to you often, you should either buy and install more RAM for your computer, or you should increase the virtual memory on your computer.  This is normally a judgement call based on whether you have a small amount of RAM or a small amount of hard drive space.  If you don't have much RAM, buying more is much preferred. If you do enough RAM, you should increase your virtual memory by right-clicking on My Computer, clicking on the Advanced tab, in the Performance box click Settings, click on the Advanced tab there, in the Virtual Memory box click Change, and then increase the maximum size by 1.5 to 2 times, you may also want to increase the minimum size some to force it to be larger.  Then click OK on everything and restart your computer.
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The best thing to do is remove it !\n\nIt takes up so much CPU speed and memory.\n\nTry AVG it seems so much better
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Due to little information from ur question, may i can suggest few tips, hope it can help u, if not we need soem more deatils of ur config and windows.\n\n1. Don't allow many programs to stay in task bar, as much as possible remove it, mainly have virus scan and some important onces, so this will give more memory to work.\n\n2. Then defragment ur hard disk every one month.\n\n3. Use registry check softwares.\n\n4.If ur using pirate windows stuff, plesae dont update, the windows, if so delete the update and try\n\n5. clear ur history, offline webpages and cookies.
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When you use your computer there's a certain order where programs are stored.  First it's stored in RAM then it's stored in virtual RAM (basically your hard drive).  When you run out of virtual RAM, it has to shuttle programs in and out of both RAM to keep up and this will dramatically downgrade your performance.\n\nIf you're using alot of programs at the same time when the message comes up, try not to open so many applications at the same time or try to identify which one is using the most RAM.  If you have Windows 2000/XP, right click on the taskbar and click on Task Manager.  It'll show some memory usage of programs that are open.\n\nIf you're not using alot of programs at the same time when the message comes up, it sounds like you don't have alot of RAM to support what you want to do.  Adding more RAM would help get rid of the message but it will cost money to do that.
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It sound like your system respond is too slow. \n\nTry to check what is the available memory left on the system. If you are running on Win XP, click on Alt+Ctrl+Del once. Choose Task Manager, click on Performance, Check on phyical memory. If you left 50MB and below, you need to upgrade your memory, or uninstall some of your software to give space for other problem.
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VIrtual memory is when windows uses a small portion of your hard drive as "RAM." The widely-accepted setting of virtual memory is to have 1.5 x RAM, so if you have 512MB of RAM you set your virtual memory to ~768MB. Setting 100MB on one drive and 200MB on another would probably slow down performance a tad, since windows would need to read/write from two drives rather than just one.\n\nJust apply the 1.5 x RAM and set that virtual memory size onto a single drive. Oh, and cranking up your virtual memory setting to something like 5 x RAM probably won't yield any performance increase.
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yes.  because virtual memory is actually a part of the secondary storage i.e. your hard disk which is used by system temporoarily for swap files. \n\nif your primary memory is too low, then more of secondary storage is used up as virtual memory causing ur machine to slow down.
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Where are you seeing this?  In task manager?  IT is probably a backdoor program or spy ware using up processing time within the memory.
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you may find that its not man enough to handle XP, try to install 2000 instead\n\nalso you may be suffereing from a lack of memory
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My corporation uses a program called: Encryption Plus Hard Disk from a company called PC Guardian\n\nalso to increase virtual memory you can adjust the available memory limit under the advanced tab of the system properties dialog
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Virtual memory is a part of your hard drive that your OS fixes to load the programs while running. The physical memory or the RAM may not be sufficient to accomodate all the running programs, in that case a part of hard disk is allocated to the  program so that when ever that part is required to be executed  can be loaded into RAM.\n\nIf you are using Windows XP:\nAdvanced -> Performance -> Settings -> Advanced -> Virtual Memory -> Change
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Make sure you do system maintenance once a week or so.  Run Disc Cleanup on C drive - and make sure to run DeFrag.  Make sure to reboot after doing those two things (in that order).  Memory should be AT LEAST 512 if you want to use XP at any reasonable speed.  Of course, you really didn't tell me about your computer.  The more memory - the better.  If you computer is newer, a gig of ram is becoming standard (depending on the chip).\n\nPersonally, I use registry mechanic to clean my registry.  One more thing is that if you're using Norton, it is notorious for slowing down your computer.  I heard that PC-cillin is a good alternative.
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Your machine is lacking in memory.\n\nYou are running too many memory resident programs and/or you have more windows open (could be browser windows or other applications). \n\nReduce the active load on your machine.\n\nIf that does not help, then restart, may be a program is stuck in a loop somewhere.\n\nIf even that does not help, run an anti-virus, may be you have avirus.\n\nIf that also does not help, try reinstalling the operating system.\n\nIn case nothing of the above works, get a new machine with better specs.
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may be our RAM capacity to share some space to display card.\n\nu can try to increase virtual memory.\nHow ? using 98 as My computer Property to advanced/performance tab in virtual memory button to set min 1500-2500 in any other drive c:,d:\n\nhow? using XP go to My computer Property to advanced tab in performance button in virtual memory button to set min 1500-2500 in any other drive c:,d:
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There is a very strong possibility that this answer could be wrong!\n\nHigh usage of the HD indicates that some programs are running on your computer.  Even if you are not doing anything on the machine, programs could be running in the background.\n\nCheck your task manager to see what is active.\n\nIf you are running winXP then check services.\n\nYou may also be using too much memory.  Again check task manager.  An over active HD could be page swapping to use virtual memory.\nYou may need to buy more memory.
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Restart your pc. You might be running low on memory.
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You can also increase your page file. A page file is empty space on your hard drive that your system will use as extra memory. You can try to increase this by RIGHT-clicking on the My Computer icon, go to properties. Click on Advanced. Click Settings under performance.\nAgain, click the advanced Tab.\nNear the bottom, it should say Virtual memory. Click the Change button.\n\nMost systems will have system managed as default. If your "Currently Allocated" is near the recommended. I suggest entering a custom value. Depending on your system, 512-1024 is very sufficient. However...if your system starts to lag, you might want to play with it a lil. Hope this helps.