my computer tells me it's low on virtual memory...pls help

for running normal applications 256mb is more than enough. with 256mb ram you will be having around 384MB of virtual memory. so your total memory will be 384(1.5 times your ram) + 256(your ram). that makes 640 MB of memory. This will be enough for your daily applications unless you have a highly memory consuming application running. If you are having only normal applications running and you are getting the message, Then it might be any one of the below problems 1. Your computer will be affected by virus. 2. You are running unnecessary services . try to stop unnecessary services running from run-msconfig 3. You will be having a highly demanding(memory consuming) anti-virus like NORTON running. 4. your page file will be set to zero or a lower value. I think 256 MB of PHISICAL RAM is enough for normal applications. HAPPY COMPUTING

I got the same message several times while playing games on my laptop. Either you should increase your RAM or else try using Ccleaner. It is a temporary solution as it deletes all temporary internet files and recent viewed files list. This may help in increasing your Virtual memory. Download this software from download.com

It is caused by opening more applications than your memory can handle. It can also be caused by running new programs... hungry for memory... on old computers with little memory. Before installing new programs... you should check their system requirements. If your computer does not meet those system requirements... you should not install the program. To recover your memory... close all programs. And if that does not do the trick... reboot the computer. You might have a program which requires most of your memory. In that case... when you are using that program... you should not open any other application. Adding memory to your computer made a big difference in the old days... like 10 or 15 years ago. But these days... the programs we are using not only require lots of memory... but also video cards with lots of memory and fast CPU. The very minimum requirement today is a 2Ghz Pentium 4 with 512Mb Ram and 32Mb video card. And that would be a 6 year old computer.

Virtual memory is hard disk space that is being converted to aid the physical RAM. Low on virtual memory means that hard disk space is insufficient, so that Windows can't create the necessary virtual memory. Each byte of hard disk space equals to each byte of virtual memory. There are 3 ways to solve this: 1. Purchase more RAM. Ideally, PCs should have 2 GB of RAM. It's not expensive nowadays to install 2 GB of RAM. This option requires you to spend some money. 2. Purchase larger hard disk. It's more expensive than installing 2 GB of RAM, but you will certainly have more space to convert into virtual memory. 3. Uninstall unnecessary applications, delete unnecessary files and back up rarely used files to DVDs. This is the only option that doesn't require you to spend any money, because this options doesn't involve purchase of anything. Good luck.

I also received a warning like that when I was using a Windows PC. Try closing other programs that seems like eating too much of your virtual memory. Another thingyou can do is to increase the page file of your PC. You can search the Internet on how to do it or using the Help and Support of Windows. :)

If you receive this message sometime then it because of some of your running software require a lot of memories. You can fix this problem by just close some program that you do not use in that time. See these links for more information. http://www.computerstuffs.co.uk/osprobs/windows/virtualmem_low.html http://www.answers.vt.edu/ask4help/desktop/vtkb1550.htm