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Old 8th Jan 2006, 10:46
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Re: Virtual Memory Minimum too low - what does it mean?

The OS sets up a "paging file" on disk which, when you're running several applications, it uses to store the contents of areas of RAM none of the applications need at a particular moment - hence "virtual memory" - using the disk as RAM.
Windows OS's in general like this to be 11Mb larger than the amount of physical RAM installed in the PC.
So increasing the size of the RAM without increasing the size of the paging file = complaints from the OS.
To stop the messages increase the paging file size to 267Mbytes (on XP that's Control Panel - System - the advanced tab).
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