Hello all! Quick question... Lately (not all the time), I've gotten a yellow triangle with a black exclamation mark down by my clock telling me that my virtual memory is way to low and that windows is trying to recover it. I don't understand why this appears?? I have NOT added anything that is substantial to my comp and have not made any changes to anything. This happens about 2x a week or so. Thanks to anyone that replies... --Viv :)

Download maxmem. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7766,00.asp Might work. groups.yahoo.com/group/simplycomputers2

Your PC uses "Virtual Memory" when there is insufficient actual memory to complete a task. As I understand it Virtual memory uses the swap file by temporarily storing the data on your harddrive until it is needed. You may be dealing with files too large for the available physycal and virtual memory. Windows reserves a percentage of your harddrive for virtual memory and if your drive is being filled up with other files then there will be insufficient space available for the theoretical maximum swap file. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.

fordman, I just installed it and have it along with my Memturbo that I've had on here for a long time...Memturbo works well, but I found that it still showed me the virtual memory low warning. I will keep both these programs and see what happens. Thanks... --Viv :) P.S. Anyone else have any good programs or ideas??

Third party memory management in XP is unnecessary. There are a couple of factors which can lead to the issue you have. Firstly you could have some un-necessary processes running that take up room in your Actual memory(ram). Try to identify what's runninmg that you don't need and turn it off. Secondly as I said earlier your Virtual Memory(SwapFile) is larger than the available room on your harddrive. Do a disk cleanup to clear out temp/old files and if necessary archive files to CD to free up some more HDD space. As an alternative it is possible to limit the size of the swapfile however if you do so you can take a performance hit when dealing with very large files. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.

hi, I've fixed few computer with this problem just this week. Mostly this problem happens when you have some spyware in your computer. I seggest you get some spyware removal program or you can just get yahoo companion bar that has spy romover and popup blocker anyway here is what you do go to START -> CONTROL PANEL -> SYSTEM click on ADVANCED TAB under performance click on SETTING -Visual Effects TAB, choose the top choice (let window choose what is best for my computer. -click on ADVANCED TAB, look under Processor scheduling it should be PROGRAMS under Memory usage it should be PROGRAMS under Virtual memory click on CHANGE -in the next screen choose SYSTEM MANAGED SIZE and click SET. wondows will set your currently allocated virtual memory to 2 points more than Recommended. CLICK OK, OK FEW TIMES TO CLOSE ALL WINDOWS YOU HAVE OPENED SO FAR, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. hope this will help good luck

All the above suggestions were excellent!! It is really only recommended to have a System Swap file of a SOLID HUGE unchanging size. The rule is to make it at least TWICE the size of your main actual physical RAM... So if you had 128 megs of RAM chips installed into your computer motherboard's DIMM sockets, you would specify 256 megs for swap file size, or even 3 times as much, for 384 megs. I have 384 megs of physical RAM on my system, and I specify 768M of swap file usage. I have hardly ever had a problem with this setup. You actually get LESS of a performance-hit when the swap file is at 1 huge size, rather than if it is allowed to be constantly resized by windows all the time. This recommendation of having a solid "1-size-fits-all" set swap file (make it huge if you can), has actually been a staple piece of advice ever since the very early Windows 3.0 days. Set your Swap file size to AT LEAST 2x or 3x your actual amount of physical RAM in the computer. Then click the SET button, then OK and OK again to get out of those windows, then reboot ... You should then see a much nicer difference when you return and try the same tasks again :-)