Thread: Increase the Virtual Memory

Your computer utilizes internal memory to load and complete applications. The Windows XP operating system is the essential application that is running on the computer and it utilizes internal memory itself to load the kernel device drivers and several procedures.

Later memory is determined Windows XP establishes use of a thought called virtual memory. Virtual memory is also mentioned to as a paging file later memory pages are delivered from memory and stored on disk in the paging file. This idea of swapping memory pages from internal memory and hard drive is shortly called swapping thus the third possible name swap file.

Throughout installation Windows XP makes a default swap file on the similar disk as your Windows installation. The swap file size is besides a default value and looks on the size of the internal memory in your computer.

In many cases the default value is not adequate and you can run into memory problems or kind of memory errors. Windows XP will report out of memory of low memory errors. Video and photo editing are especially memory intense applications. In such instances it is better to raise the size of the virtual memory

Go to the Control Panel in Windows XP. In the Control Panel choose Performance and Maintenance. Then click System and In the System Properties dialog box choose the advanced tab. In the Performance group then click the Settings button. In the Performance Options dialog box and choose the advanced tab instantly click the Change button in the Virtual Memory group.

You will check the drive and the paging file on all drive. Click a drive with a paging file and then choose the Custom size radio button. then increase the number in the Maximum size area .The values in the entire paging file size for each drives group can help you determine on the amount but just attempt repeating the maximum size if you have enough free hard drive space. Then Click OK three times and close the Control Panel then Restart your computer for the virtual memory changes to take result.