How to increase Virtual Memory

I have windows xp home ed I have 512 memory of Ram. Would adding another 512 of Memory make my Virtual Memory any better? if not how can I get more Virtual Memory?

Thank you

 

Hi Bob,

Take a look at this thread: http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=49380

So to answer your question Would adding another 512 of Memory make my Virtual Memory any better? getting more memory would lessen the need for VM because the system would not need to access the HD as much.

What is prompting your question? System slow or a particular application asking for more VM?

Regards - Charles

 

With 512, unless you are running large applications, or many, many at once, you are most likely doing very little paging.

When you have a representative load on your PC, fire up Task Manager and look at available ram. If you always have available, adding more ram, will just give you even more available.

 

Virtual Memory

Hi I have Rambooser and it will record as low as 24 virtual Memory at times is why I was asking .

 

First, get rid of Rambooster.

It's purpose in life is to create free memory (which Windows does NOT need in order to run), and in the process moves inuse memory out to the pagefile.

After removing it, check on available ram.

Memory Optimization Hoax

 

Hi Bob,

Ditto on getting rid of Ram Booster.

If you want to know at any time what the state of RAM/VM is, then use the Task Manager per WhitPhil's post: > Performance tab.

Keep this in mind, RAM not used is wasted RAM.

It would be usefull in looking at your startups though: go to this thread http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=39425 and lookup info on startups/running processes thru the links provided.

Regards - Charles

 

Virtual Memory

I took Rambooster off and put on startup moniter

 

windows Task Manager

Perfomance

CPU Usage History
5 percent to 10 percent







Page file Usage History

396 MB

 

Nothing wrong with those numbers Bob.

Your page file is 768 MB + 512 RAM = total available, gives you more than enough "horsepower ".

Regards - Charles

 

windows Task Manager

thank you