Virtual memory

[berty2001]

My computer is apparentyl out of virtual memory but I have just bought it 3 months ago. admitedly I have a lot of pics and some music files on but it has run slow for a while. Ther internet doesn't load up now. I have new norton but doesn't seem to help? Can you?

[OBonio]

Virtual memory is simply memory stored on disk in a file. You can make more virtual memory available by making this file bigger, though windows should do this automatically. If windows is doing this a lot, then your PC may slow down whilst it resizes this file. Are you using Windows XP?

[OBonio]

If you are using Windows XP, right click on the My Computer icon on the desktop and select properties. Go to the Advanced tab and click on Settings for Performance. Again, select the Advanced tab, and click on Change under Virtual Memory. To stop windows automatically resizing the file, make the minimum and the maximum sizes the same. The recommended size of this file is 1 and a half times the amount of physical memory you have. So for 512Mb of RAM, set the virtual memory to 768.

[peanut]

to add to obonio's answer the minimum memory is set to 1.5 times the ram and the maximum should be set to 3 times the total ram