I just had this come up, what does it mean? "windows virtual memory minimum too low"

corn, i can not recall how offhand, someone will know.. my old computer use to do that. All you have to do is adjust a few settings and it fixes it. Im sure shifty or palf will know which ones.

I just had this come up, what does it mean? "windows virtual memory minimum too low"

I get this message every so often also.Maybe they can teach 2 of us!

Delete some of those "special pictures" you have saved on your hard drive :lol:

I dont even have any, well not many special pictures yet. Ive only had this puter less than a week...

Delete some of those "special pictures" you have saved on your hard drive :lol:

I think you are confusing "Memory" with "Hard drive space", which many other computer users often do.

MEMORY comes in the format of a RAM stick/card that you insert into the mainboard of your computer. This is usually represented in Megabytes.

STORAGE is how much space is on your hard drive. This is usually represented in Gigabytes.

Hard drive space is *not* the same as memory. When people say "memory" they are (should be) talking about how many megabytes of RAM are installed in the computer, not the amount of files or free space is on your hard drive.

damn, i forgot to answer the original question :D

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

that should answer what "virtual memory" is. if i were you, i would setup Windows to manage its own Virtual memory and setup its own paging file size. details on how to do this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869

I think the ram is 380, Ill check out the link. Thanks...

I think the general recommendation is to set virtual memory at twice whatever the amount of RAM you have. I would just let Windows Manage it - it will know the best value to use.

I have seen this error happen when people mis-match RAM, use different speeds of RAM (like mixing a 128MB stick with a 256MB stick, or putting a PC133 stick in with a PC66 stick). Increasing the size of the pagefile could potentially help. A pagefile is just a chunk of hard drive space (a file, basically) that essentially acts like RAM - it's a space to buffer data for quick access. At least that's how I've always understood it.

Shifty thats what it was! exact issue exact solution... Corn, mine ran fine like that until I was able to get a new new one. I think it was about two years....

I think mine is running 3 sticks of 128

Shifty I wasn't confusing anything. I know nothing about computers, I was just giving corn crap. :D

With that new internet connection, I knew there had to be some fun stuff on that computer!!