Hello, Just recently my computer has been running low on physical memory while I play world of warcraft. The computer has been using my HD space, turning it into virtual memory. The problem I have is that once this HD space is used, I dont get it back. Today alone I lost 500mb off my free space on my hard drive. Is there any way I can get this back? or at least anyway I can prevent it from sucking up more of my free space?

I don't game. Is your computer /game storing points where you can continue and using up hard drive space to do this?

umm not that I know of (world of warcraft is an online game), what I do know is that when the virtual memory itself gets low I get this message: Application popup: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low : Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help. I then check my HD and suddenly ive lost free space on my hd, restarting the computer has no change etc. It wouldnt be such a problem if I didnt only have 1.19gb left (the above error has happened 3 times so far, all 3 reducing my free HD space from a total of 2gb to 1.19gb now.

My C drive says it has 1.19gb elft, yet on the advanced tab in my computer properties..virtual memory it says I have 1.6gb space available

Open the "C" drive to see if thousands of .bak files have been generated.

What is happening is that when you run WoW all of your RAM is being used and still more space is being needed. That space it uses is the Windows Virtual Memory (VM). Windows Virtual Memory is a place on the Hard Drive that is used as very slow RAM. This VM is a reserved place on the Hard drive that users are not able to save new information such as files to. To get rid of this issue you have a couple options. 1.) Buy more RAM -- Increasing your RAM will help to lessen the amount of Virtual Memory that needs to be used to run an application (I had this issue with WoW and I upgraded from 512MB to 1GB of RAM and issue solved) 2.) Buy a Second or Replacement Hard Drive This will give you the storage room you are losing from the VM size increases. Hope this helps

Also, any programs that you have running in the background are using up memory. Use msconfig to check what is automatically starting up when you boot your system. There is probably lots of stuff that you don't need running all the time. Do yourself a favor BACKUP!!!