Saturday, May 22, 2010

What is it with virtual memory?

I am using Windows XP and so far I have had to do a complete factory restore on my comp. twice because after a few weeks I start getting this error message when I try to open Internet Explorer saying Microsoft Runtime Error or Virtual Library C+++ and other boxes come up and say my virtual memory is low even though I have no other open programs running and to please wait while it makes more room to run the programs...but my IE ends up closing anyway due to the runtime error and I can't get online to fix it or find any solutions so I have to lose all my new programs and data and do a complete restore just to get back to normal.....does anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it next time if it happens again???

What is it with virtual memory?
unplug it for a few moments then turn it back on works for m e look for another computer
Reply:Virtual memory is a reserved part of your hard drive that Windows uses when you run out of physical memory. The more physical memory you have, the less virtual memory you need. These days 512mb to 1gb is the norm for physical memory. The more programs you run, the more memory you will need. You should have atleast 3gb of free space on your hard drive to proporly protect yourself and your vurtual memory. To see how much virtual memory you have do the folowing steps: 1. Hold down the WINDOWS key on your keyboard and press the Pause/Break button on the top right. After the System Properties window opens 2. click on the advanced tab 3. under performance select the Settings button 4. Click on the Advanced tab. At the bottom you will see Virtual Memory. If you are brave and dont do anyting stupid, you can click the Change button to see the settings. The System Managed Size radio button should be selected. If it is not, select it, and press the Set button. Reboot and see if that takes care of the problems.
Reply:you could try increasing your paging (virtual) file size. go to control panel %26gt; system %26gt; advanced %26gt; settings (performance) %26gt; advanced (virtual memory) mine is set to 3700 MB. or the other problem is you've got a sneaky nasty virus that isn't being destroyed by the restores. if thats the case maybe you should take it to a geek friend that can remove it. hope that helps
Reply:Could be hardware, so try to change the computer.
Reply:You probably simply don't have enough memory. simple as that. Even when you aren't running anything, your computer is still running, which takes memory. Windows XP recommends AT LEAST 512 MB or memory. Virtual memory is how much memory total you should have, numbers such as 512, 256, and 1024. The actual memory is how much you have minus whatever the cmputer must utilize to keep running. My guess is you are running on 256 MB or RAM. Right-click on MY Computer and select properties, then you will see a number followed by MB of RAM. That is your total, or virtual memory. If it is 256, I recommed an upgrade. You can purchase a second 265 Memory card for rather cheap, definitely less than $50. If you do so and have trouble installing the card, e-mail me at fret_guy89@yahoo.com. You can also e-mail me with any other computer questions. Have a nice day.
Reply:uptodate your computer system
Reply:Start | Control Panel | System |





On the advanced tab click settings in performance


Click on Advanced Tab


Click Change under virtual memory


Increase the size of virtual memory or select for the system to manage it.
Reply:right click on mycomputer.


choose properties


choose advance -%26gt; preformance setting-%26gt; advance


click on change


set virtual memory more than now ;)


and i prefer that clean up your c and d partitions more than 2Gigabytes
Reply:You need disk space on your virtual memory drive.





You can use ccleaner to get more space free.





Virtual memory or virtual memory addressing is a memory management technique, used by multitasking computer operating systems wherein non-contiguous memory is presented to a software (aka process) as contiguous memory. This contiguous memory is referred to as the virtual address space.





Virtual memory addressing is typically used in paged memory systems. This in turn is often combined with memory swapping (also known as anonymous memory paging), whereby memory pages stored in primary storage are written to secondary storage (often to a swap file or swap partition), thus freeing faster primary storage for other processes to use.





The term virtual memory is often confused with memory swapping, probably due in part to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems referring to the enabling/disabling of memory swapping as "virtual memory"[citation needed]. In fact, Windows uses paged memory and virtual memory addressing, even if the so called "virtual memory" is disabled. (source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...





In technical terms, virtual memory allows software to run in a memory address space whose size and addressing are not necessarily tied to the computer's physical memory. To properly implement virtual memory the CPU (or a device attached to it) must provide a way for the operating system to map virtual memory to physical memory and for it to detect when an address is required that does not currently relate to main memory so that the needed data can be swapped in. While it would certainly be possible to provide virtual memory without the CPU's assistance it would essentially require emulating a CPU that did provide the needed features.


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