low virtual memory

[Guest]

Have recently seen a warning message that my virtual memory is low and that
Windows is working to increase it. Have not had a lot of programs running
at same time, so really perplexed about why my virtual memory is low. Last
msg I saw regarding this subject was about 15 minutes ago and only thing I
was busy with was defragmenting an external drive. Can someone give me some
suggestions on how to correct this problem? Hopefully in layman's terms.
Thanks

 

[Mark Randall]

Windows increasing it means that it has fixed it itself. Perhaps the paging
file had just.. shrunk 0_0

 

[Guest]

Make sure you don't have spyware and adware and do some virus checking

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please have a look at the following article by the late Alex Nichol:

"Virtual Memory in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

 

[Jim]

Have recently seen a warning message that my virtual memory is low and that
Windows is working to increase it. Have not had a lot of programs running
at same time, so really perplexed about why my virtual memory is low. Last
msg I saw regarding this subject was about 15 minutes ago and only thing I
was busy with was defragmenting an external drive. Can someone give me some
suggestions on how to correct this problem? Hopefully in layman's terms.
Thanks

Let windows manage the size of the pagefile. A small pagefile can cause
this problem. By the way, isn't defrag a heavy user of virtual memory?
Jim