Virtual memory is a file on your hard disk that the computer uses as if it were RAM. Your computer is doing this because it is running out of space in that file. If you're running XP you can incr...
But is increasing the virtual memory size a good idea? or is it going to make my comp go slow?
Your computer definitely slows down when it has to access virtual memory, but Windows is such a memory hog that it really needs a lot of virtual memory. How much physical memory do you have and wh...
yeah, how much RAM do you have? To find out: While holding the WINDOWS key, press the PAUSE/BREAK key. It'll tell you right on that screen.
That's an ok amount of memory. What's your virtual memory set to? (To find out go through the same steps I mentioned in my first post only don't change the settings on the final page.)
Really? That should be enough for most purposes. My computers rarely even get up to 400MB of total memory used. Are you running a lot of memory-intensive applications at once?
I have no idea why you'd be running out of virtual memory then. Those applications shouldn't come anywhere near to using up the 1024MB of total memory that you have on your computer.
might be some background application. is Kazaa or anything running? If you bring up the Task Manager (hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE), look under Processes, and sort by Mem Usage. What's the largest one, and ...
yo. e. it's probably all the ram hogging apps like quicktime, realplayer, that stupid weather thing, spyware, AOL, norton, all that crap that sneaks into your system tray. XP hides that sometimes, ...
OS means Operating System, which means "Which version of Windows are you using? For example: Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, etc." And, basically yes, rebooting means turning your computer o...
ok. good. NOW. what is in that little system tray in the bottom right hand corner of the screen OTHER than the clock and your volume control. tell me EVERYTHING. and if there is a little arrow - hi...
New Updates are ready to install; yahoo messenger (I never use that..); AIM; Quick Time; Date Manager; AOL; Notron Antivirus; Safely Remove Hardware; Printer.
ok...date manager is unnecessary - if no one in your family uses it, uninstall it. same for quicktime (although, you can always just right click and close it). set AIM NOT to start with windows (th...
hey, while you're saying all this helpful stuff....i was wondering if there was any way to make the stuff that appears when i hit ctrl alt del not appear anymore, there are like 20 programs that co...
what operating system are you running, tinser...
you should be really nice to mattytty, he can come over and do this for you in about 5 seconds...(hopefully)...actually, on 2nd thought, maybe not
im running win 98
matts one of my big brothers...oops, i mean twin sister
OMG, there are people that are still running that horrible, horrible piece of crap OS???
i know :(
its better than Windows ME.
Yeah, but only barely. I feel sorry for people who are still running those versions of Windows.
well, you shouldn't. who cares what OS you're running?? like XP makes you happy and healthier. it's an OPERATING SYSTEM.
Courtney, you're fine with 98 or whatever you have. keep it clean - run adaware, a virus checker, and run a registry cleaner every now and then.
and IGNORE what other people say.
"sheesh, you're still driving a 1998 model car! holy crap! get with the future!"
no way man, XP is a LOT more stable than 98. You'll get a lot less crashes, and if something does crash, it won't crash the whole system. And Microsoft has dropped support for 98, so forget about new patches and stuff.
blah...all these patches mean i have do "SERVICE PACKS"...who knows what's REALLY happening when i install those
98 was a MUCH smaller operating system...i installed xp on my pentium 3 box, and it took a FULL 24 hours to install (after that it worked perfectly, but still, i digress)
98 may have been much smaller but it crashed all the time. I've been running 2000 on my machine at home for a while now, and the only time I had serious issues with it crashing was when my graphics card was dying on me. (And then it was a hardware problem, so it had nothing to do with the OS.) Also, I've been running XP on my laptop, and I don't think it's even crashed once yet.
wow, 24 hours?? that's amazing. normally takes like 30 minutes.
and...the ipod isn't compatable with windows 95
I'm really in love with this adaware stuff. I run the program every day and it makes my computer nice and fast again!
I'll feel sorry for whomever I feel like. There is nothing you can do to make either 98 or ME good OS's. They're fundamentally flawed.
haha, BURNED
don't encourage him, ian
the OS's are fundamentally flawed, sure, looking back 6 later. i'm sure 6 years from now we'll all say XP was horrible.
remember win 3.1?
It has nothing to do with it being old. Unix has remained essentially unchanged for 30 years and XP is the first Microsoft OS that has even come close to being as good as it is. Microsoft's big problem is that instead of starting with a proven OS like Unix and building on it, they insisted on reinventing the wheel with DOS, and it's taken them the last 20 years to finally get a product that can compete with Unix.
yeah, but windows still crashes - look at all those "send error report?" messages that pop -up - Micro$oft blames them on the program. And LOOK how much RAM XP takes to run! I wouldn't run it on ANYTHING less than 256MB of RAM - Unix can run on a fraction of that, literally
Actually, BizarreT told me that Win XP, 98, etc, even DOS, are all unix or linux based. Ask him.
DOS was written completely independently of Unix. It may have been "based on it" in the sense that a lot of the metaphors (files, folders, etc...) were carried over from Unix, but as far as the actual technology goes, it's completely separate from Unix. I'm not sure about XP, but I think it's still based on NT, not Unix. The most recent Mac OS, however, *is* based on Unix, and even has a command line that you can use.
So sad..I was using 3.1 when people at 98
oh wow. win 98. i don't think you need ANY of those processes, at ALL. NT/2000/XP have some things automatically running.
in 98, all you REALLY need is explorer and systray running. that's it.
i'm too tired now, though. sorry.
so i can really get rid of everything with out killing my computer?