TSGL: Windows low memory error

[The Computer Whisperer]

Mike, I would be inclined to set the maximum value to something much larger
if she only has 256MB of RAM, say 2GB.

Generally speaking I set the virtual memory page file size to "system
managed size"

I also recommend keeping 3 or 4 Gigabytes of free space on any hard drive
that contains a virtual memory page file.

You will probably find this friend of yours' system resources are being
chewed up by Norton 360, although it uses less resources than older norton
products, it is still pretty resource hungry.

By removing this product and using something lighter on resources, such as
Avast antivirus, your friend would see a noticable amount of useability
return to their machine.

By the way, RAM is incredibly cheap these days, a 1GB chip would do wonders
(and perhaps get rid of the error message). especially as the processor is
still very very fast.

Be sure to check the type of RAM before making the purchase so as not to buy
the wrong type. it's probably DDR or DDR2




On 28/10/2007, jonpan <jonpan at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Try: Control Panel
> System
> Advanced
> Performance/Settings
> Advanced
> Vitrual Memory/Change
> Custom Size
> Now set the initial value to around 700MB
> and the maximum value to 700MB
> Press set and OK out.
>
> I would choose No Page File on the Backup partition.
>
> John
> Od/G
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Cassidy" <mikec at pcug.org.au>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" < list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:08 AM
> Subject: TSGL: Windows low memory error
>
>
> I'm trying to help a friend with her PC which was very, very slow. It is a
>
> Packard Bell (now serviced by NEC) EasyNote M5-270DW notebook (Model No:
> PN05000559) with 2.7GHz Celeron, 256Mb RAM, DVD-CDRW Combo, 28GB HDD
> (Volume
> C: 26Gb, Volume Backup: 2Gb, On Board Intel Video Card (which appears to
> be
> sharing 16Mb of memory from the RAM), Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
> SP1
> and Microsoft Office Student & Teacher Edition 2003.
>
> Besides being so slow, she was getting an intermittent error message:
> Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low: Your system is low on virtual
> memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file.
> During this process, memory requests from some applications may be denied.
> For more information, see Help.
>
> I could not find any reference to this condition in the Help system.
>
> MS Knowledge Base Article ID: 926218 (30 Oct 06) is the only hit on
> searching the KB for "Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low". It says the error
> applies to MS Internet Security & Accelerator Server 2006 Enterprise
> Edition, MS Internet Security & Accelerator Server 2006 Standard Edition,
> MS
> Internet Security & Accelerator Server 2004 Enterprise Edition, and MS
> Internet Security & Accelerator Server 2004 Standard Edition.
>
> She had Norton 360 security suite installed and tried to use its backup
> feature to backup to CD. It took some 10 hours to get to the 8th CD before
> it stalled.
>
> I was able to do a backup of her data to an external USB HDD. Then, using
> the backup volume, reformatted the HDD and re-loaded Windows XPSP1. I then
> applied SP2 from CD. The restore installed Word 2002 (but it did not
> appear
> in the Add/Remove program list in Control Panel. When I installed Office
> 2003 there was a prompt to remove the previous version of Word which I
> did.
> I then reloaded her other programs and connected her Internet. About this
> time, we got the same error message: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too
> Low.
>
> Can anyone advise why this is occurring and how to resolve it, please?
>
> MikeC
>
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