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| 64024 | 2002-07-21 06:02:00 | Lately XP Pro has been slowing down, doing things like opening IE or Outlook Express seems to take ages. At the log on screen a error message came up saying the Virtual Memory was too low, and that it has increased the page file memory (or something like that) It's done this a couple times and the computer just seems to be getting slower. The computer has 256MB SD RAM and a Pentium III 1 GHz. I know I could always upgrade the RAM, but the computer ran fine untill just a few weeks ago. The only thing that I can think might be causing the problem is a recently installed CD-RW. That also installed 'InCD' software that runs in the backround. Any ideas on how I could fix it? |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 64025 | 2002-07-21 07:37:00 | Hi Mr I, I had a somewhat similar problem recently, and put it down to my partners game playing habits hogging mem. Anyway after changing the virtual mem settings and a few other things to no avail - I did a defrag (on advice from here and a help tech) which solved my problem, so if its been a while since you have defragged I would perhaps try that first otherwise get back to us and perhaps you may need to change your vitual mem settings - but as i said i tried all that first to no avail and defrag worked thats why i suggested you try that first! | J ZEP (336) | ||
| 64026 | 2002-07-21 08:45:00 | Do you run Nortons Internet Security by any chance??? There is a known problem with it that causes this error. Go and see their site and search for Virtual memory error. No fix for it as yet. Only affects me during shutdown of the machine. Takes affect after one of the updates to IS |
Big John (551) | ||
| 64027 | 2002-07-21 23:20:00 | run ad-aware and use a utility like Fix-IT or norton 2002 then do a defrag of you HDD i use Diskeeper myself which is really fast and doesnt muck up my Goback software | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 64028 | 2002-07-22 02:45:00 | Have you tried uninstalling InCD. if this is the root of your problem then removing it should fix it. :) |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 64029 | 2002-07-22 04:13:00 | Its gotten worse. 30 mins after I created the thread my ADSL modem stoped working (lost the signal) So I restarted the computer. Then at the log on screen the "low on virtual memory message" came up 2 or 3 times. The computer took a horibly long time to load and my ADSL modem still couldn't pick up a signal. So I reinstalled the modem software and it found the DSL signal. But when I try to dial up in Jetstream, at the part it is verifying the password, the Blue screen of death comes up. I restarted again and it got even worse, half the backround programs didn't start and I was getting DLL errors from some program. For some reason a few of my shortcuts on my desktop, don't work. I am writing this on one of my schools computer. Think i'll reformat the computer, I was going to do one anyway..... Might be a virus? I can't tell...it crashes when I try and scan for viruses :( |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 64030 | 2002-07-22 08:53:00 | Update: I have reformated my computer to NTFS format. I've been told it's better then FAT 32 and I don't plan on putting another OS on my current computer. So it was some kind of software thing, might have been some kind of error in Windows, I got the BSOD when I dialed up, to dial up I use windows, so i'm guessing it was windows that was causing everything else. -I have Norton Security 2002, I've had absolutly no problems with it, i'm guessing it wasn't the cause because I removed it from the startup list (through msconfig) and the computer was still slugish and had errors poping everywhere. Wow, isn't your system fast when it only got Windows on it and nothing else.... Well thanks for you help everyone! |
Mr. Insanity (957) | ||
| 64031 | 2002-11-19 08:01:00 | If you're still interested: You may have a problem with the Intel Application accelerator or your Intel chipset (assuming you have an Intel chipset . Older versions of the accelerator can cause a problem with XP . You will probably be unable to set the amount of virtual memory:(Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance . Settings>Advanced> Vitual Memory Settings Change . You will get to a dialog box that allows you to change the vitual memory manually . Try the minimum virtual (paging) memory as 1 . 5 times your amount of RAM and put say 3 times this amount for your upper limit . Now Set it and check the total vitual memory . There is a box on the previous window that shows this . If it has not changed then you have a problem . You'll should go to the Intel site and download and install iaa222_enu . exe . (By the way you need to be administrator to change virtual memory . ) |
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