Re: Problems..

"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
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> "fly mx" <yeah@right.com> wrote in
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>
> > I keep getting " your virtual memory needs to be increased" as well as
> > problems with my dial up as I have said, I have to occationally
> > re-enter my pass code when the dial up box is set at " save it ", the
> > hard drive is grinding away for minutes at a time for no apparent
> > reason, changing programes runs much slower, the comp locks up
> > frequently and I also got a screen saver type floating window that
> > came up stating " could not create the direct 3D divice" .. .
> >
>
> This part means that real memory is being paged out to a virtual memory
> page file that is too small, which is on the hard drive. The O/S uses
> virtual memory paging in its normal operations. If the virtual memory
> file size is too small, the the O/S starts beating the hard drive to
> death slowing the O/S and the machine down as it as to swap memory in and
> out more frequently. The page file size should be at least 3 times the
> size of the actual memory the machine has, but you can go higher like 4
> or 5 times the size. The *HELP* section of XP will tell you how to make
> the page file size bigger.
>
> The rest of your issues someone else may be able to help.
>


Thanks Duane, but I think I still need to find out why it is all of a sudden
needing so much virtual memory when I am not running anything for it to need
it.
Dave.


> Duane
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