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Name: denbruatwork Date: February 23, 2004 at 08:49:11 Pacific OS: w2k pro CPU/Ram: 450 mhz 394 meg
Comment:
At start up I get an error message Limited virtual memory and tells me how to fix this prob. I have tried to do this and also many of the fixes suggested at microsoft with no luck. No matter what I do it won't keep the new max size that I set. Any help out there?
Name: Amir Banuazizi Date: February 23, 2004 at 15:08:07 Pacific
Reply:
I have 2 thoughts:
1) Maybe you don't have enough space on your Hard disk ??? Sounds stupid but may just be the case.
2) I had the same problem on a WinXP system I was troubleshooting, I ended up re-installing windows (2000) from scratch....
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: February 24, 2004 at 15:42:42 Pacific
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If you have a second partition, move the pagefile to that one. What are you setting for your min and max pagefile size?
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Response Number 3
Name: bert.feyen Date: March 1, 2004 at 05:36:14 Pacific
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Have same issue pc has following specs: HDD 40 GB -> 34 GB free 256 MB Memory Can't get VM higher than 512 MB. I remember that there is a rule of 2 saying that the "recommended" amount of VM = 2 times the intern memory, which is so in my case. Eventhough I don't think that rule defines the maximum ...
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Response Number 4
Name: bert.feyen Date: March 11, 2004 at 04:24:32 Pacific
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I cracked it: First put the desired and max values on 0.
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