Total paging file size for all drives", WHAT DOES IT SAY?
Minimum allowed 2mb
Recommended 765mb
Currently allocated 1526mb
WHAT ARE ALL THE SETTINGS THERE?
Custom size selected
Intial size 768mb
Maximum 1536mb
You can put an end to questions about your system, what you have, what
you don't have try this, try that by providing some more information.
Sounds like you have things configured in a less than optimal way.
PA Bear is on the right track - too much stuff that you don't need,
but it will also help to actually see what your system looks like now
or when you get done messing around.
Since Spybot is in the picture, if their Teatimer component is
installed (optional of course), that is a huge consumer of Virtual
Memory, but we can tell if you do post screen shots of a few things on
your system.
Unless you know more about managing memory that XP you should leave
your Virtual Memory settings at System managed size and not change
them. The message you see is not an error, it is an informational
message that XP is doing it's job. You should just make better use of
your resources instead.
Here are three things we need, how to do it and then some examples.
1. Supply msinfo32 information
2. Supply Task Manager information
3. Supply Startup information (use CCleaner for this and other things
later)
1. Click Start, Run and in the box enter:
msinfo32
Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select
All, Copy and then paste the information back here.
There will be some personal information (like System Name and User
Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just
delete it from the pasted information.
2. Post a screen shot of your Task Manager and there will be no
guessing about what it running or your virtual memory.
Right click the Taskbar, choose Task Manager and select the Processes
tab.
Click View, Select Columns, check the box that says: Virtual Memory
Size. Expand the width of the Task Manager box so you can see all the
columns and processes. Is the largest consumer of Virtual Memory
Teatimer? It doesn't have to be that way.
Double click a column heading in TM to sort by the column. For
example, sort Task Manager by the CPU column.
Take a screenshot of what you see and upload the screenshot to one of
several free picture hosting WWW sites listed below.
3. Download CCleaner, install it, run it, click Tools, Startup and
drag the columns around so all the Startup items are easy to see.
CCleaner is good for this since it shows the Startup information in a
bigger display and has other useful functions. You can uninstall it
later if you don't use it.
Get CCleaner here:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
When you are done, we will be able to see what you are seeing.
Here is how to create and post a screenshot:
Press the Print Scrn button to copy your entire screen to the Windows
clipboard.
Press Alt Print Scrn to copy just the active window to the Windows
clipboard.
Open MS Paint:
Start, Program Accessories, Paint
When Paint opens, press CTRL-V to paste the clipboard, save the new
Paint file to your desktop or someplace you can remember. JPG files
take up less hard disk space than BMP files and just as readable.
Make as many screenshots as you need. Practice makes perfect. Be
careful your screenshot does not contain any personal information.
Practice viewing your images before you upload them to be sure they
are okay.
You cannot upload screenshot files here but you can use a free third
party image hosting WWW site.
Create a free account on some free picture hosting web site. You can
always remove your account later if you want.
Here are some free image hosting sites:
http://www.imageshack.us/
http://photobucket.com/
Using your free account, upload your screenshot(s) (the JPG or BMP
files) to the site and it will return to you a URL web address (a
Direct Link) for your new image(s) which you can paste the Direct Link
in a message post, email, etc.
When you are done, what you post for others to use should look
something like this:
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6428/taskmanagerr.jpg <- Task
Manager
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6969/ccleanerstartup.jpg <-
Coveted CCleaner Startup
If you click those example links above, you can see some examples.
Yours will be similar, sort of.
Post that Direct Link web address back here in your response and we
can click on the link address and see your screenshot. Post as many
as you need but at least the two requested - the sites are free.
