Need Help With XP Memory

[pressureguy]

Apparently, I am out of memory. I have deleted all unnecessary files,
such as avi/mpegs, mp3 files, all games and any other thing you can
imagine, but every few days the computer is not able to perform basic
functions such as play a cd, use any program, or pull up the internet
explorer page due to lack of memory.

I have dumped my trash can, defragged, deleted temporary internet files
(inluding the ones under settings), and done disc cleanup for all
drives.

On my C drive, I have 73.1 GB and according to my computer, 68.4 of
that is free. The computer is a 2.79 GHz with 240 MB of RAM.

What else can I do, and where has my memory gone if I have deleted all
unnecessary things?

Any ideas or comments will be greatly appreciated.

pg

 

[Richard Urban]

Memory is on a RAM stick which is plugged into the M/B. These days they
usually come in multiples of 64 meg of RAM (sometimes in multiples of 128
meg).

Hard drive space is an entirely different animal.

Freeing up hard drive space is NOT going to free up memory.

Which are YOU talking about?

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Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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[HeeroYuy]

Apparently, I am out of memory. I have deleted all unnecessary files,
such as avi/mpegs, mp3 files, all games and any other thing you can
imagine, but every few days the computer is not able to perform basic
functions such as play a cd, use any program, or pull up the internet
explorer page due to lack of memory.

I have dumped my trash can, defragged, deleted temporary internet files
(inluding the ones under settings), and done disc cleanup for all
drives.

On my C drive, I have 73.1 GB and according to my computer, 68.4 of
that is free. The computer is a 2.79 GHz with 240 MB of RAM.

What else can I do, and where has my memory gone if I have deleted all
unnecessary things?

Any ideas or comments will be greatly appreciated.

pg

Giving yourself more hard drive space by deleting stuff is an exercise in
futility. It does nothing for speed, only storage space. If your hard drive
was almost full, that would have been different, though not too much of an
improvement. Find out what type of RAM you have and add more system RAM to
your computer. Most techies say 256MB RAM is the bare minimum that should be
in the computer for Windows XP, and that 512MB is ideal to get things
running smoothly.

 

[Guest]

what is your error message?
Are you talking about "Virtual Memory"?

open task manager, performance tab
what is your pf usage?

 

[di]

Apparently, I am out of memory. I have deleted all unnecessary files,
such as avi/mpegs, mp3 files, all games and any other thing you can
imagine, but every few days the computer is not able to perform basic
functions such as play a cd, use any program, or pull up the internet
explorer page due to lack of memory.

I have dumped my trash can, defragged, deleted temporary internet files
(inluding the ones under settings), and done disc cleanup for all
drives.

On my C drive, I have 73.1 GB and according to my computer, 68.4 of
that is free. The computer is a 2.79 GHz with 240 MB of RAM.

What else can I do, and where has my memory gone if I have deleted all
unnecessary things?

Any ideas or comments will be greatly appreciated.

pg

Do you have your pagefile.sys turned off? If so turn it back on.
Deleting files will not give the computer more memory.

 

[Guest]

From Windows XP Help and Support
Nore: Look at what yuo have and what is recommended!!
Vitrual Memory/Page file
To change the size of the virtual memory paging file
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators
group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a
network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this
procedure.

Open System in Control Panel.
On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file
you want to change.
Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, and type a new
paging file size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB)
box, and then click Set.
If you decrease the size of either the initial or maximum page file
settings, you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes.
Increases typically do not require a restart.

Notes

To open System, click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and
Maintenance, and then click System.
To have Windows choose the best paging file size, click System managed size.
For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum
recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended
size is equivalent to 1.5 times the amount of RAM on your system. Usually,
you should leave the paging file at its recommended size, although you might
increase its size if you routinely use programs that require a lot of memory.
To delete a paging file, set both initial size and maximum size to zero, or
click No paging file. Microsoft strongly recommends that you do not disable
or delete the paging file.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Apparently, I am out of memory. I have deleted all unnecessary files,
such as avi/mpegs, mp3 files, all games and any other thing you can
imagine, but every few days the computer is not able to perform basic
functions such as play a cd, use any program, or pull up the internet
explorer page due to lack of memory.

I have dumped my trash can, defragged, deleted temporary internet files
(inluding the ones under settings), and done disc cleanup for all
drives.

On my C drive, I have 73.1 GB and according to my computer, 68.4 of
that is free. The computer is a 2.79 GHz with 240 MB of RAM.

What else can I do, and where has my memory gone if I have deleted all
unnecessary things?

All of the steps you've mentioned above will help free up storage space
on your hard drive, but they'll have absolutely no affect upon the
computer's memory, which is something entirely different. In fact,
about the only way the contents of the hard drive can cause memory
errors would be if the hard drive were either so badly fragmented or
damaged that the swap file couldn't function properly. How often you
you perform a disk defragmentation.

Also, 240 Mb isn't a normal size for RAM, which is always counted in
multiples of 32. Or does your computer have an integrated video adapter
that's using 16 Mb of the system RAM? If not, you have a defective RAM
module. Either way, you probably should upgrade the computer to 512 Mb
of RAM for optimal performance with WinXP.


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Bruce Chambers

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