I have been having problems with memory with windows ME. My PC is 3 years old. The virtual memory value reads in the minus(-8130Mb)and keeps getting worse. I specify min/max at 1048Mb. My resources and RAM drop of very fast and the system is very slow and locks up a lot (lots of restarts). I have only a few programs in the start up and I use Mcafee 7.0/Ad-aware/Spy-bot/Reg Cleaner as well as doing regular defrags and scan disc maint. I have talked to various techs about this but they never heard of virtual memory being in the minus. I think I need to reformat but have never did this yet. Did 2 system restores with no difference. I have been looking at info on how to do this but I would like to know what to expect. My PC is an HP so it came with some preloaded programs but no CDs for these. I assume they are included in the system restore discs that came with it. Has anyone heard of virtual memory being in the minus and why this would happen and how to fix it to avoid a reformat? Ken

hello first on me for this. have you done a forum search on this? a google? you may want to do the things in this link befor trying a reformat how to run m.e well verion 5 http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html allso for virtual memory settings there were some veary good older posts in here on this and the right amounts to set it too. i dont have the link sorry.

Normal. You have a disk drive larger than 32GB which is larger than anything Micro$oft had to test with. It is a minor bug in their code that is displaying a large number as a negative number. Ignore it. Q272620 if you insist on bothering Micro$oft about the fix. You have "over tweaked" your system. Unless you are running large graphics edit programs, setting the Virtual Memory setting the way you have them, will cause problems. With Windows ME, NEVER set a maximum value for the Virtual Memory. Leave it blank and let Windows ME handle it. It does it quite well. There is no need for a Minimum that large unless you do Graphics editing type work, and if you do, you need more RAM anyway. Reducing the minimum down to 256MB or 128Mb would free up space on the disk drive, and windows can handle it a little better. Your large minimum virtual memory is forcing Windows ME to use up some of it critical Resources when it is not necessary. For more ideas, See: Windows ME Fixes