Laptop low memory report.

[Terry]

I only use my laptop for web surfing. I also keep F Secure anti virus
software on it. The trouble is that F Secure has bloated to need 256k
memory. Every time I use the machine, after a while, I will get a
report that Windoze is using virtual memory. I can live with this, I
would just like the daily warning to go away.

Can this warning be disabled?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Guest]

I only use my laptop for web surfing. I also keep F Secure anti virus
software on it. The trouble is that F Secure has bloated to need 256k
memory. Every time I use the machine, after a while, I will get a
report that Windoze is using virtual memory. I can live with this, I
would just like the daily warning to go away.

Can this warning be disabled?

Thanks for your time.

is the warning saying its low on system resources? I have never seen a
warning saying "windows is using virtual memory" - I would expect it
to use virtual memory quite often for day to day use.

Could possibly be adware if it has a 'click here to fix' link in the
message.

Flamer.

 

[Gerry]

Terry

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

How large is your hard disk and how much free space. Right click on
your C drive in Windows and select Properties to get this information.

How much RAM memory?

What is your processor speed?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Jim]

I only use my laptop for web surfing. I also keep F Secure anti virus
software on it. The trouble is that F Secure has bloated to need 256k
memory. Every time I use the machine, after a while, I will get a
report that Windoze is using virtual memory. I can live with this, I
would just like the daily warning to go away.

Can this warning be disabled?

Thanks for your time.

Windows processes are always using virtual memory. Some of the virtual
memory is located in physical RAM. The rest of the virtual memory is
located in the pagefile.
The usual reason for Windows to notify you about virtual memory is that the
pagefile is too small. I recommend setting the pagefile to "system
managed".
If you still receive notifications after working on the pagefile, you likely
to have some other more obscure problem.

As for F Secure, a lot of Norton users would be very happy to see the AV
software use so little. After all, 256kb is a drop in the bucket of the
suggested RAM of
512MB.

Jim

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Windows always uses Memory, not Virtual Memory. Memory is RAM plus Virtual Memory (the page file(s).)

 

[Ken Blake]

Windows always uses Memory, not Virtual Memory.
Memory is RAM plus Virtual Memory (the page file(s).

Gary, a clarification here: that's not the way Microsoft uses the term. The
term "Virtual Memory" refers to the full complement of memory in your
computer: it's the sum of physical memory (RAM) plus the Page File.
See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dngenlib/html/msdn_virtmm.asp>

or <http://tinyurl.com/5l5m2>

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Well, that's downright silly! Nothing at all virtual about RAM. But what do you expect from a company that calls partitions drives?

 

[jorgen]

Well, that's downright silly! Nothing at all virtual about RAM. But what do you expect from a company that calls partitions drives?

But it is still called virtual memory. Applications live in a virtual
memory space, they don't address physical memory directly. The CPU has a
memory management unit that can translate virtual memory addresses into
physical addresses

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Hmmm... OK, makes sense. So Virtual Memory does not equate with "Page file". My bad. Oh, and here's a decent discussion:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm

 

[Terry]

I only use my laptop for web surfing. I also keep F Secure anti virus
software on it. The trouble is that F Secure has bloated to need 256k
memory. Every time I use the machine, after a while, I will get a
report that Windoze is using virtual memory. I can live with this, I
would just like the daily warning to go away.

Can this warning be disabled?

Thanks for your time.

After reading all your helpful suggestions, I checked my virtual
memory settings. They came preset from Dell to 384/768. I changed it
to let Windows manage it, but I still get the error.

I have 40G free hard drive space and the CPU is about 800 MHz with
256K memory.

Here is the error screenshot: http://i10.tinypic.com/4uore2p.jpg
There will be an enlarge icon that pops up on the lower right of the
screen when you hover the mouse.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Look at those RAM figures again. You almost certainly have 256 *MB* of RAM.
Go to Control Panel, System, and see what it says there.

Even if you have 256 MB of RAM, that isn't enough to run Windows XP
decently. You need double that. I run a machine with 384 MB of RAM, but I
only use it for testing some things in XP, certainly not for running major
applications, and definitely not for regular use.

 

[Gerry]

Terry

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

How large is your hard disk and how much free space. Right click on
your C drive in Windows and select Properties to get this information.

You mention 40 gb for your hard drive but this the size or the available
free disk space. They will not be the same.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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