Low virtual memory

[WindSpirit]

Hi there,

I hope someone may be able to help me. A relative of mine is using a program called "Pinnacle" to edit movies made with a digicam. They keep getting a warning that the virtual memory is too low. I find this hard to belive as they have 1 GB of RAM. Could the PC be infected with something (virus scans using McAfee are clear) or might it just be a case of increasing the virtual memory?

Any suggestions gratefully appreciated!

WindSpirit

[flybhx]

Low virual memory indicates a shortage of disk space. Software like pinnacle uses a lot of hard drive space for rendering the movies

[WindSpirit]

Hi flybhx,

Thanks for your reply. The hard drive is something like 120 GB and is pretty much empty. He just has one video on there at once.

WS

[TR4A]

Microsoft Windows XP
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System.
3. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4. On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change.
5. Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file that you want to change.
6. Under Paging file size for selected drive, click to select the System managed size check box, and then click Set.
7. Click OK three times.

When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

Microsoft Windows 2000
1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click System.
3. On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options.
4. Click Change.
5. Select the drive that you want to use to store the paging file.
6. Increase the value for Maximum size (MB).

For the initial size, Microsoft recommends that you use the Recommended value under Total paging file size for all drives.
7. Click Set, and then click OK three times.
8. If prompted to restart, click Yes.

Otherwise click Start, and then click Shut Down.

Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) and Microsoft Windows 98
1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click System.
3. On the Performance tab, click Virtual Memory.
4. Click to select the Let Windows manage my virtual memory settings. (Recommended) check box, and then click OK.
5. If you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

[WindSpirit]

Thanks TR4A. The computer was only allocated 144 MB virtual memory and when I changed the settings, the system recommended using 1534 MB - quite a difference!