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Since nobody really checks the software section of this website
(either that or nobody had an answer to my question) I decided to post in here. It is not a troubleshooting issue it is more of a hardware question. If my computer tells me frequently that there is not enough memory and the resources are dangerously low, what does this mean? Does this mean I need to get more memory? Ram? A new CPU? What? |
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"Mexplorer1906" wrote in message . .. Since nobody really checks the software section of this website (either that or nobody had an answer to my question) I decided to post in here. It is not a troubleshooting issue it is more of a hardware question. If my computer tells me frequently that there is not enough memory and the resources are dangerously low, what does this mean? Does this mean I need to get more memory? Ram? A new CPU? What? virus malware spyware hard drive is running out of space and virtual memory is running out of room virtual memory is turned off hth |
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Mexplorer1906 wrote:
Since nobody really checks the software section of this website (either that or nobody had an answer to my question) I decided to post in here. It is not a troubleshooting issue it is more of a hardware question. If my computer tells me frequently that there is not enough memory and the resources are dangerously low, what does this mean? Does this mean I need to get more memory? Ram? A new CPU? What? What kind of resources do you have??? Computer type and hardware present?? |
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"Mexplorer1906" wrote in message . .. Since nobody really checks the software section of this website (either that or nobody had an answer to my question) I decided to post in here. It is not a troubleshooting issue it is more of a hardware question. If my computer tells me frequently that there is not enough memory and the resources are dangerously low, what does this mean? Does this mean I need to get more memory? Ram? A new CPU? What? It could be as simple as your hard drive needs to be defragged, or is simply too full. Windows won't be very happy with less than about 2Gigs of free space available on the hard drive. The reason is that Windows uses so much RAM, that it has to use hard drive space to simulate RAM. If you are getting low resources, this means that all of your RAM is in use, and Windows is running out of space on the hard drive to use hard drive space for virtual RAM. (this space is called a swap file or page file, depending on what version of windows you run) To check your hard drive, start a DOS prompt (or "command prompt) from within windows and type the command dir/s (and hit enter) It will run for a while, but when it finishes, it will give you a summary of your disk usage, and the last line should read _______________ bytes free. You want that number of bytes free to be 2,000,000,000 or larger. If you have plenty of free space, check your swap file settings (virtual memory) and make sure that it's set to allow windows to manage it, or that a custom swap/page file is set no smaller than 1000MB. You should also defrag your hard drive (under system tools, disk defragmenter) and scan your hard drive for viruses. Bad programs (not necessarily viruses) can cause "memory leaks" which can lead to error messages about low resources on a computer with plenty of RAM. It's also possible to use too many resources simply by starting too many programs when windows starts. Do a start, run, msconfig, go to the startup tab, and see how many programs are checked. If you don't need it running, UNCHECK the program, hit apply and restart the computer. If you aren't sure what a program is, check the name of it at www.sysinfo.org. Good luck, -Dave -Dave |
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"Mexplorer1906" wrote in message
. .. Since nobody really checks the software section of this website (either that or nobody had an answer to my question) I decided to post in here. It is not a troubleshooting issue it is more of a hardware question. If my computer tells me frequently that there is not enough memory and the resources are dangerously low, what does this mean? Does this mean I need to get more memory? Ram? A new CPU? What? It could be as simple as your hard drive needs to be defragged, or is simply too full. Windows won't be very happy with less than about 2Gigs of free space available on the hard drive. The reason is that Windows uses so much RAM, that it has to use hard drive space to simulate RAM. If you are getting low resources, this means that all of your RAM is in use, and Windows is running out of space on the hard drive to use hard drive space for virtual RAM. (this space is called a swap file or page file, depending on what version of windows you run) To check your hard drive, start a DOS prompt (or "command prompt) from within windows and type the command dir/s (and hit enter) It will run for a while, but when it finishes, it will give you a summary of your disk usage, and the last line should read _______________ bytes free. You want that number of bytes free to be 2,000,000,000 or larger. If you have plenty of free space, check your swap file settings (virtual memory) and make sure that it's set to allow windows to manage it, or that a custom swap/page file is set no smaller than 1000MB. You should also defrag your hard drive (under system tools, disk defragmenter) and scan your hard drive for viruses. Bad programs (not necessarily viruses) can cause "memory leaks" which can lead to error messages about low resources on a computer with plenty of RAM. It's also possible to use too many resources simply by starting too many programs when windows starts. Do a start, run, msconfig, go to the startup tab, and see how many programs are checked. If you don't need it running, UNCHECK the program, hit apply and restart the computer. If you aren't sure what a program is, check the name of it at www.sysinfo.org. Good luck, -Dave -Dave[/quote] Thanks a lot I think I have 40,215.13 MB free. |
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