HELP!!!

[GZFant]

every couple of days or so a yellow triangle with an exclamation point pops up on my start bar and tells me that my virtual memory is too low and windows is going to increase the paging file size.

Is this bad??

What does this mean and is there any way to fix this??

 

[Schadenfroh]

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[Scott66]

At what point do you get this message? This usually means your computers virtual memory is getting low for what you are trying to run. The more applications you run the larger the VM usage gets. When you ram is being used it stores data on special location in your hard drive. Windows is telling you that this page is getting full and it is going to increase the size of it. You can manually adjust the size of your page file but it is best to let windows manage it in most cases. How full is your Hard drive?

 

[GZFant]

see this is the odd thing. On a 40gig drive I am only using 12 gigs.
When this message pops up I only have one explorer window open and nothing else is going on with my computer. I have plenty of HD space and am running MSN messenger in the background and that's all.

 

[MtnMan]

If you don't know what it means, they perhaps you should just let Windows manage your swapfile size (which it is doing when you get the triangle).

Do make sure your disk isn't filling up. Defragment your drive.

 

[GZFant]

my drive was defragmented a week ago

 

[trexpesto]

More RAM if you can spend it.

 

[howdyduty]

Recommend just click on and let windows manage it. If the computer is to slow, then add ram. If its seems ok, continue as is.

 

[araczynski]

first, read through the link above.

another possiblity is a memory leak caused by some crappy program. go to task manager and look through the processes and see if anyone of them is taking up an exceeding amount of memory.

also, if you don't have very much ram and exist some games there might be a brief time before the memory gets released from that game that the system might complain with this error, happen rarely, but on slower systems with small memory and high usage it can occur.


goog luck.