memory loss

[Guest]

HP Pavillion 8903, celeron 1gh, 128mb RAM, 20bg hard drive (partition for
system recovery files reduces to 14bg effective), approximately 8gb free
space.
Have done defrag and chkdisk. From fresh start, Nortons antvirus, Kerio
Personal firewall, but no other programs running, System information says
Physical memory 128mb, available physical memory 18.71mb, virtual memory
434mb available virtual memory 144mb. page space size 307mb.
I know the video and other devices on motherboard use some and Windows uses
some, but where has all the rest of the RAM and Virtual memory gone

 

[Rock]

HP Pavillion 8903, celeron 1gh, 128mb RAM, 20bg hard drive (partition for
system recovery files reduces to 14bg effective), approximately 8gb free
space.
Have done defrag and chkdisk. From fresh start, Nortons antvirus, Kerio
Personal firewall, but no other programs running, System information says
Physical memory 128mb, available physical memory 18.71mb, virtual memory
434mb available virtual memory 144mb. page space size 307mb.
I know the video and other devices on motherboard use some and Windows uses
some, but where has all the rest of the RAM and Virtual memory gone

There's nothing wrong with XP using all the memory it can. If it's not
being used it's wasted. XP will dynamically assign memory to programs /
processes as needed. You're system would run better with at least 256
MB of ram, though.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Have done defrag and chkdisk. From fresh start, Nortons antvirus, Kerio
Personal firewall, but no other programs running, System information says
Physical memory 128mb, available physical memory 18.71mb, virtual memory
434mb available virtual memory 144mb. page space size 307mb.
I know the video and other devices on motherboard use some and Windows uses
some, but where has all the rest of the RAM and Virtual memory gone

Read up on Virtual memory at my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

XP will do its level best to find *some* use for all of RAM, and with
only 128MB will have no trouble. The report of 'available' physical
memory is misleading - it should be 'Memory for which at present there
is no possible use', and should be expected to be near zero at all times