Low Virtural Memory and other problems

[Guest]

Ok for some reason I keep getting a little bubble on toolbar at the bottom
saying that I have low virtural memory or I get a message while trying to
save my movie saying:

Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify
that the orginal source files used in the movie are still available, that the
saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space
available, then try again'

I have tried saving it in different spots but it never works. If the files I
am using in the movie weren't available they would show up as red Xs like
they always do. And
the file is like 64mb and I have around 12gbs of space on my computer. Only
program I have running is the Movie Maker.

I have tried saving it with the choice of Best Quality for Playback on my
computer and Best Fit to File Size 64mb and it still doesnt work.

I have Version 2.0.3312.0 another question would be, if I upgrade to the
newer version will I lose all my imported videos in my collection?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

It's not talking about hard drive space, it's referring to RAM when it talks
about Virtual Memory, which would indicate that you have too many programs
running or not enough RAM in your PC.

And as for the second error message, before you try to save the file to your
PC, you need to run Disk Cleanup and Defrag to ensure those temporary files
are banished.

Although you say the file is only 64mb, remember if you're saving in DV-AVI,
each hour of video will take up just over 12gb, so indeed you may not have
enough hard drive space... since you'd need a temporary file of 12gb AND the
saved file of 12gb while the operation is in progress.

 

[Guest]

I am not running any other programs while trying to save my vid. I defraged
my C drive already. Disc Cleanup seems to freeze and not go anywhere.

As far as saving the file, its supposedly WMV and not DV-AVI, Its a 4
minute movie so it shouldnt be talking up that much space.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

I hope you are running programs like firewall and antivirus... and many
other programs put things in the registry to start themselves at startup...
I can think of several off the top of my head like RealSched, QTTask,
Acrobat Speed Loader, Adobe Gamma Loader, Intervideo WinCinema, DrgToDisk,
Acrotray etc etc. None of them are actually needed and all take up RAM
space.

If DiskCleanup freezes, you have hundreds, probably even thousands of
temporary files on your drive..... at what point does it freeze? If you
haven't run it for a while, then perhaps you can leave it overnight. It
should first analyze the drive(s) and then ask which files you want it to
remove. Does it freeze before or after this point? One PC I fixed for a
friend recently had over 10gb of files that it could remove, the guy hadn't
run it in the year of having owned his PC.

 

[Guest]

Well I think i resolved it. I just fixed it to give me more Virtural memory.
But I will try to do that disc cleaning again just having to leave it on
overnight or something.