Set your pageing file (Virtual memory) to one and a half times the amount of ram you have installed. (e.g. 512mb of ram installed then set page file @ 1250)

Er isn't that two and a half?

lol.. would you believe... a typo?


yes my bad..lol.

It's easily done...

Actually if you have a large anount of ram..say over 512 the 1 1/2 setting is a better choice

I am getting this message all the time:

"Virtual Memory Too Low - Windows is increasing your virtual memory. Some apps won't respond while this is happening" (or something like that!)
It happens even when I only have a few windows open in Crazy Browser, and it's very annoying.

So, how do I do what you have suggested above? Where is the paging file control?

Mandy - who only knows how to turn the thing on - and run HighJackThis!
running Windows XP Pro

Manually setting your page file is quite easy Mandy. Here are the steps.
1st go to Start then click My Computer. Then select View System Information under the system tasks menu. This will bring up your System Properties window.
In this window select the Advanced tab. The area you want is Performance. Hit settings and select the advanced tab once again <note you will have to be logged in with administrator rights to make any changes here> Look down and you will see the box Virtual Memory, hit the change button. Once here check the Custom size button and enter the value <in megabytes> in the initial size box & the maximum size box <both values the same> Then click the set button and okay buttons and your done Windows will ask you to reboot for the settings to take affect. You would determine the size of your page file using the above guidelines. say you have 512mb of ram. You would set min size 1280 and max size 1280. For 768mb of ram 2 1/2 times <1920mb> or 1 1/2 times <1152mb> should work. I use the 1152 setting myself. You might want to try both. IMHO anything 1gig or over of ram 1 1/2 times the amount is plenty. Very few users need a 2 1/2 gig size page file. I hope this helped you out.

weird i checked that and mine says 3070 and maximum 8000 but it also says the recommended amount is 3070 my ram is 2gb is that amount correct?

Hi, That is a very old thread you are responding to......note the dates....
You could always let windows manage it for you rather than setting max/mins
Regards
paws

Hello,

Your page file (some times called swap file) should be a min. of 1.5 times your RAM, and a max. of 3 times your RAM.
With 2 GB of RAM that would be a min. of 3GB, and a max. of 6GB.
(Take in to concederation that one GB is 1024 MB)

This post has been edited by HFCG: Mar 14 2008, 08:57 AM