How can I fix "too little virtual memory" in Windows?

DAVE, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE VISITED YOUR WEBSITE BUT I AM SO GLAD I DID I HAVE BEEN HAVING A LOT OF PROBLEMS ON MY COMPUTER WITH VIRTUAL MEMORY BUT I READ WHAT YOU TOLD SOMEONE ELSE TO DO AND I AM GOING TO TRY THAT SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH SHEILA

Great Information,

Thanks for providing it !

1. I'm running Windows 2000 on a 300 MHz PII with 96 MB SDRAM. It used to run smoothely initially. Recently it has been painfully slow. I tried opening Task Manager and realised there is a small program called SVCHOST.EXE that now takes up to 98% of my processor time. Where did it coming from? How I deal with it?

2. Since my first Defragmentation, the system has been giving an error message on booting; something like "Paging file does not exist, or is too small". I followed the instructions on rectifying it. However this problem reappears each time I boot. Please help.

Dave,

Thanks for this (found it through Google, just because I was curious about the Virtual Memory error, heh).

As in your example, FireFox is usually the offending application when it comes to my Virtual Memory running too low. The problem is, I am otherwise a hardcore FireFox fan, so I'll now be researching how I can patch up the memory leaks (I often leave my FireFox open overnight or even days at a time).

Thanks again,

Sarteck

Im running windows xp, when i turned on my computer it told me i'm running out of virtual memory. My problem is that it wont let me do anything...if i can even get the computer to boot up, it wont let me open any programs including task manager...
any ideas??

Dave - Ok I'm working with MS Publisher 2003. I have artwork saved on 8.5X11 sheets that I want to save on 20 X 20 sheets and as JPEG's or BMP's but when I try to save the files in the larger formats, I receive and error telling me that I can't save. I'm lost. I have increased the virtual memory and I have the space on the harddrive so I don't know what to do. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I'm working with XP if it matters.
Thanks Christine

I have a windows 2000 system, and I upgraded from 10gig to 32gig via ghost2003. The system gets up to log in and then goes to a grey screen with a big box that says "Paging file does not exist, or is too small" and a bunch of other related things. I cannot get past this, I tried safe mode and it stops at the same place.

can u please explain an easier way of fixing my computer? i have windows 2000 professional and when im on aol it tells me that my " virtual memory is too low". thank you very much!

After going through your process to help me restore more efficiency with my computer, and to check the Virtual Memory, I discovered that aolsoftware.exe had 453,472K. I know I need aol, but is there a way to reduce that?

I recently installed a new 80gig internial hard drive and loaded xp on it, after I set it up a blue screen appeared and said something to the effect, fatial error has occured try rebooting and it also said something about virtual memory. now I can't get the thing to boot up at all. even tried putting the old hard drive back in with no luck. please help.....

I bought a Seagate 160 GB external hard drive and it only shows 148 gb how can i recover the lost gb? Running windows xp pro

Dave,
my problem is exactly what the aboe windows 2000 user describes, however I have an athalon processor, only using approx. 15 % of an 80 gig H.D. even if I go in and change the size of the file, it does not hold, when I reboot it is the same issue over and over again.

Help!!!

hey im low virtual memory and my max program is systray.exe which turns out to be system tray and is needed. it also takes up only 48,540k.
what do i do???

thanks I needed that.

I have a similar problem. Several programs, including explorer.exe, my internet browser, and most other programs I open myself end up using too much virtual memory. They start at a normal amount (about 50000kB) and increase to a huge amount (200000kB or more.

I have a compaq presario 7500. 128/512gb/56 and my hard drive is ultra dma 40 gb,my cdrw drive is48x12x48 max speed.yet it says low on vertual memory.I have dial up.How do I fix this problem?How can I fix,I have the pc tool,to fix registry called registry mechanic.Still shows a window saying low on memory.Thank you,skyhawlk7@bellsouth.net

Dave, thank you for this info! The only article that actually tells the truth about what happens under the hood. I have this behavior on a laptop occasionally when Windows is suspend/resumed with a few IE windows open. Seriously "a few" - is 5 many!? Now, true, my pagefile is set to 96 MB fixed size [because a) fluid size slightly decreases performance, and b) with 512 MB RAM and applications I'm running that sould be more that enough]. When this message pops up and I look into TaskMgr (or lately ProcessExplorer of Sysinternals - one of "Pricelessware" utilities) it shows over 300 MB free and available! What drives me nuts is: Microsoft and anybody else just says in response to this message - you need to increase pagefile size; my take on it - why!? If there's more than half my RAM available, why does a stupid application need "virtual memory"!? Since most services are stopped [performance reasons, I'm not lazy to start 'em when I actually need 'em], list of tasks is usually pretty small: 12-17, and when this message pops up I seem to always have IE open. So my hunch is that it is the offending app, since others play nicely. IE version is 6.0 sp1, Win - 2000 sp4 with all latest updates, same occasionally happens under Win XP too [with pagefile also fixed]. Of course, increase the pagefile size and most of us won't even see the message. Doesn't mean the problem actually has been solved! Thank you for fighting for better quality software!!

while installing ms office 2003 on winXP+SP2 platform in betwwen my cd drive get discounected in system, after few days i also notice that sometimes scanner n printer also giving problem. every time ui have to reboot machine.
when i go to hardware device manager n refresh hardware disconncted hardware connects but again time of installing software its d/c.
i m using win xp system on 256mb memory.

Thanks for the help...needed it.

Dave the way that you explain things seem so down to earth, that even I can grasp all that you say.
This is the first time I found you, and I am glad guys like yourself are here to assist. Keep up all that you do, and thank you for your help.

I'm a dummy, but was able to understand your amazing explantion! Thanks ever so much

Dave, the info you gave on the Virtual Memory problem was very easy to find, thanks for your help on these issues. My problem I believe is along the same line as the firefox, I have Spyware Doctor, that's using 109,204K and when I have the Active Guard on, the memory column uses anywhere from 40,000K to 60,000K. I turned the active guard off which lowered the memory usage to 3,604K but the VM is still 109,204K. My question is, will turning the Active guard off on the Spyware Doctor help with the Virtual Memory pop up problem? Thanks again Dave.
Bart

i ve the same prob with VM..and the error process seems to be svchost.exe..
automatic updates ahs been deactivated but the prob persists..
any alternatives ??

I love this site! Thank you so much for making all of this available to me. I was so tired of trial and error.

Thanks Dave, when I looked at my Virtual memory I immediately found the offending problem and cured me. I have looked on many sites for this answer and you were the first to have this easy solution!!

Dear Dave,
I have been having a lot of problems recently with excessive CPU usage. Problem started when PC slowed down to a crawl. PC technician diagnosed a faulty reader on hard drive (replaced unit with a 40GB and reloaded windows xp). I was running low on memory so I added a new 512MB unit to the pre-existing 256MB.
Then I did a virus scan and found a Vundo virus which I removed.
The PC is a Dell Inspiron 8200, with a 1.7 GHz processor running XP SP2.
Whenever I go to AOL home page to pick up emails, the unit stops to a crawl, with CPU usage at 100%. Have tried reducing memory consumption by changing browser from Firefox back to IE, which help a bit.
Also having problems using Skype with calls dropping out after about 30 secs (tried about 3 versions). There was no problems prior to the start of this problem.

Have run out of ideas. Any suggestions ?

Thanks,

Rob T

Dave,

I am using Windows XP and a 512 RAM. please advise, how do i fix this error i get each time i try logging onto windows which says 'scv host not found please search again using search from start menu' and then a the windows32 folder opens by itself with DRVSTORE file highlighted. what do i do to fix this up? And im also having problems with low virtual memory, i cannot even figure out which is the program causing it. All of this has resulted to the machine being awefully slow.

please advise.

...Well I am feeling like a dummy cuz everyone else seems to say they got it! I did all the steps, and the thing that runs the most is the Iexplore, but when you say...Once you determine which process is using more virtual memory than it should...I am trying to understand HOW do I know when it is using more virtual memory that it should??? I continued to research on how to fix it and found very few people talk about the leaks(and that's all they did...not even how to fix), and most sites just told you to increase the pagefile size (or something like that)...My computer just recently started doing this, so to me it sounds like something needs to be fixed. The only thing new on my computer is a new CD/DVD combo, and we haven't really used it yet. Can you help me out a little more??? Thanks.

Thanks Man I think it was real player on my system

good job - thank you

Hi Dave

I hope this site is still running, I just came across it today and it looked the best one to help me. I have followed your instructions so far to locate my problem. My problem is exactly what you say in your first paragraph up the top. When I searched on my computer for the file that is taking up so much virtual memory (ccSvcHst.exe is 75, 392K VM size with a username of SYSTEM and iexplore.exe is 44, 476k VM size with username as owner). I think my problem is the ccSvcHst.exe and when I did a search it says it is in a file I think called C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\SymantecShared. Do you know how I can determine if this is a safe file and if not how I can safely get rid of it?

Please can someone help me?

Thank you.
Amanda

Hi dave
Im having pc problems im running windows xp home edition 800 mhz 256 meg's ram 40 gigs.But the problem im having i think it's a memory problems but what happens is.If im running an app or just browsing the net.My pc will freak out the mouse goe's crazy on it's own then window's start popping up everywhere really fast as if i clicked on some icon or tab's myself.But i wonder if it's the memory causeing that.Because somthing eating my memory and i cant find what it is.Its just so annoying i did virus scan's trojan checks and they found nothing.Somthing i just noticed as i type this. Is this normal for your task manger meter go up just from moving your mouse across the screen.But just wanted to know if you had a clue of what it could be

i understand a lil bit but half of it is i'm getting confious... the problem is correct exactly but the resolution is not clear yet for me... could u pls add more details?? plsss....

this site has helped me alot and i have reolved my problem thnaks a lot.

Thanx for solving my virtual memory problem. I came to know about virtual memory & its impacts through this article...

Great! thx for solving the problem

My computer only has 512 RAM but has another slot for another 512K of RAM? Would buying this and installing it help my "virtual memory" problem?

Ann

Dave,

I seem to have the same situation as Amanda. ccsvchst.exe is continuing to pump up the page file memory. When I try to terminate the program accessi s denied since it is a process in the NAV or NIS system. Any clues?

Thanks.
Ray

Dave,
I have a good one for you that has been bugging me a few weeks now. Hopefully you have some suggestions for me. As I just found your site, I have not tried the steps you mentioned already on this page. I will do that next week.

I work for a company that has process control systems running OS/2 Warp 3. (Floppy Version) Currently, the hardware for these systems is starting to fail. As a work around until we can get a new PLC system, I have been successful getting the PLC software to run on OS/2 Warp 4 within a MS Virtual PC environment.

I seem to be having memory/page file issues with the host OS which is WinXP Pro.

I have alotted 64MB RAM (even tried 128MB of 1GB physical) to the OS/2 VPC environment, and it works nearly flawlessly for roughly 24 hours. At that point, the software freezes in OS/2 although if I catch it soon enough, OS/2 will still respond and I can back out and restart the PLC software. Otherwise it freezes the OS/2 guest OS, and the host operating system will not open any programs claiming lack of memory errors.

I have tried to force simulate the issue, but have only found I am able to do this when pulling up multiple trends within the PLC software. At that point, I can watch the available memory on the host OS dropping, and never regaining memory. I do not understand why this memory is being used, when I have only alloted 64MB to the guest OS, yet it seems to be using all of my physical memory.

I apologize for being long-winded, but any advise/direction you could suggest would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

"Virtual memory and RAM are the same thing" is incorrect. Virtual memory is on the HHD, is not physical RAM, and is about 100 or so times slower than RAM.

While some, including a few manufacturers tend to suggest that by increasing RAM one can eliminate Virtual memory, I must disagree. While theoretically, and given a large enough increase in RAM this may in [some cases] prove correct for a while, I seriously would not recommend it. At all! Get enough memory intensive apps and services running at once and guess what? On the other side, too much Virtual memory doesn't hurt provided the memory is available to spare. Virtual memory is Virtually free, so why even take the chance of crashing and loosing data.

I am somewhat confused by your response No Where Man. Windows XP is currently regulating the host machines virtual memory for me, it is not disabled. Should I hard code it in at 1.5*physicalRAM or other? The virtual PC config is setup with 64MB to run OS2. The physical RAM is 1GB.
I seem to be losing physical RAM as the Virtual PC(OS/2) runs over time, which to me suggests a memory leak in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.

Hopefully, I am clear enough.

what's the best way to format a c drive windows xp home?

sir,
i am used for o.s windows xp.i have 1 gb ram is updated now .how is increase my system virtual memory speed.

Thank you for this information it helps me

Hi, googled my problem and found this site. My search was 'svchost.exe system using cup memory' where said process is using all the CPU. PC has been running OK and this morning has been playing up. Got so bad that Cntl / Alt + Delete failed to do anything. PC not left on at all. Other PC we have has a Grisoft (?) AVG computer scan that fires up all the time and has to be shut down. For some reason it does not do it on this PC although the download was the same as I recall (update version of free edition). All PCs seem to have been hitting problems after going wireless with Netgear WG111v2. these seem to operate fast and then go slow (seems slower than the old dialup).
svchost.exe is worst file at present with avgw.exe using a bit of CPU. Mem Usage has svchost way up top with waol.exe showing 58000K for most of the time , wuauclt at 35000K and MsMpEng.exe & avgw.exe at around 26000K. Any advice welcome. Thanks Graham

i've read what you told we need to do but can you really show me step by step what to do because i don't want something to go wrong while doing this without assistance

Regarding my May 4th/7th posting...
Running OS/2 as a guest OS in MS Virtual PC 2007.

Okay, I stand corrected... The virtual memory within Windows XP Pro (Host OS) was factory set at IBM to custom min/max allocations previously. I set it to let Windows manage it on Friday, and let everything run over the weekend. I verified the RAM allocation to the OS/2 VPC image is also a fixed 64MB and it reflects that in perfmon stats. The perfmon stat that is still eluding me appears to be Allocated Pages to the OS/2 VM. I show the following:
Last 69578
Average 69578
Maximum 69578
Minimum 69578

All other perfmon stats read zero except like I said, the Allocated MB are fixed at 64MB.

I read somewhere I can set the initial size of the page file while leaving the maximum blank. Is this possible, maybe through the registry??? I cannot get this to work in XP's GUI.

The host PC is an brand new IBM ThinkCentre MT-M 8808-8HU w/ 1GB RAM, I have a 70GB drive w/53GB free.
The sole purpose of this machine is to run OS2 in a virtual environment, but this memory??? issue crashing over time is proving to be a show stopper.

Upon returning yesterday morning after letting it run over the weekend...
The GuestOS (OS/2warp4w/FixPack15) image was frozen, and all attempts to open anything on the host machine gives quota errors, or Win32 program not valid errors, etc. There is not enough disk space to save state, so my only option is to close the OS/2 VM. At that point most everything in WindowsXP begins to function more or less, but to get it to run absolutely normal, a reboot is required.

At this point, I am at a loss. It works great for hours and hours, and then...arrgghhh! I have not had this issue running any other OS's with MS VPC 2007. Is there a program that will monitor these various aspects of the VPC VM's resource usage on the physical machine? I have been using perfmon, and taskmgr, but am not making any real headway thus far.

Thanks in advance for any and all help with this.

Thanks,
Scott

Im upgraded to windows xp,on my Laptop with 512 mb Ram, when i turned on my computer it told me i'm running out of virtual memory. My problem is that it wont let me do anything...if i can even get the computer to boot up, it wont let me open any programs including task manager...
any ideas??

It is posible to uninstall internet explore and then install again. this is the one that is taking all my virtual memory from my pc

my computer says virtual memory is low how can i fix this problem on windows xp? PLEASE HELP

Trying to ghost a Windows 2000 Server system drive but I have a "low virtual memory" error that prevents logon, and redisplays the error, neverending. I need to ghost a system drive to a larger capacity because it's too full (~1Gb free). I tryed to make the pagefile size 0 as recommended by Microsoft and then re-ghost the drive, but same issue occurs. (Note I am using the main Administrator account but it acts like I don't have rights to the pagefile.sys or something)
I can change my virtual memory sizes on my working drive, but never can on my ghosted drives.
Any workarounds?

Trying to ghost a Windows 2000 Server system drive but I have a "low virtual memory" error that prevents logon, and redisplays the error, neverending. I need to ghost a system drive to a larger capacity because it's too full (~1Gb free). I tryed to make the pagefile size 0 as recommended by Microsoft and then re-ghost the drive, but same issue occurs. (Note I am using the main Administrator account but it acts like I don't have rights to the pagefile.sys or something)
I can change my virtual memory sizes on my working drive, but never can on my ghosted drives, something about pagefile.sys is confused or locked out?
Any workarounds?

Trying to ghost a Windows 2000 Server system drive but I have a "low virtual memory" error that prevents logon, and redisplays the error, neverending. I need to ghost a system drive to a larger capacity because it's too full (~1Gb free). I tryed to make the pagefile size 0 as recommended by Microsoft and then re-ghost the drive, but same issue occurs. (Note I am using the main Administrator account but it acts like I don't have rights to the pagefile.sys or something)
I can change my virtual memory sizes on my working drive, but never can on my ghosted drives, something about pagefile.sys is confused or locked out?
Any workarounds?

Hi,
Can anybody please resolve my problem?
In my computer (processor 2.4, 845 GL Motherborad, 512 MB Ram, 40 GB harddisk [with 20 x2 partition]) whenever i go to windows folder property in c drive it shows 11 Gb Data size. If I Select all folder and files with hidden and see property it shows 2 GB data size.
Why is it so? can any body tell me how to reduce that hidden misterious size?

How do i know which one is the best for me? My system is running slow and bringin up the error messages!

Great I have been playing a game and getting this error and now I know how to fix it thanks

Thanks heaps!!! my computer is suddenly 50x faster, found out the program, it was using.. well lets say.. 1,470,000 about that much VM, yes so im happy =]

pls i am having error on my pc any time i try working with it. that is low virtual memory,pls can get the solution for that,by your Experience thak you. i

i think the first ones are fake, but anayway, nice useful info.. oh my .. my IE's taking up alot...

I have 256MB + 512MB + 1GB = 1.75GB RAM, yet I still get this "too little virtual memory" inspite of only Commit charge showing 900MB / 2007MB !

Honestly, thank you man!
I have to admit, I really hate computers at times. Especially mine.

I've always put my speed down to storage space on the Hard Drive or viruses.

However every now and then I would get this message "Virtual Memory..". On a whim I looked it up and found your site. I followed your instructions and found something twice to three times the size of my IE.

It was called ccSvcHst.exe or something. Turned out to be a glitch of Norton or something. The second I closed it things started going up to speed. I'm now working on fixing this error and checking out the other processes.

Once again, thanks for the help!

How can i stop internet explorer from using so much virtual memory

I try to change the virtual memory but Windows XP doesn't let me. I go through control panel/system properties/advanced/performance options/ advanced/ virtual memory/custom size and I change the page file requirements, only no change ever really takes place. The box below continues to read "total paging file size for all drives: 1406."
Nothing I do makes a difference. And a program I am trying to run that requires 3mb virtual memory fails to start up and keeps repeating the error message "not enough virtual memory." My base RAM is 1500mb. What is going on and how do I fix it?

Ok. Now. I tried to fix my problem. Yes, I'm young (Only 14) but I've been dealing with computers since I was little. And my father worked with them as well. But, currently. I was trying to fix my virtual memory problem. But, by closing down my Internet Explorer, my laptop's Start button as well as background image and entire task bar will not show. What do you think is the problem? Everything is displaying in black and the only window I can keep open at the moment is my FireFox. Your help is much appreciated.

Great WEb Site Very Helpful Many Thanks!

To Kimberly,

You are closing explorer.exe by mistake. You want to close iexplore.exe to get rid of Internet Explorer as necessary.

Hi Dave.I have a similar problem witm most of the people who hosted but still my problem is not resolved.I right clicked on my computer,properties,advance,perfomance,advanced and set virtual memory to sys virtual mem size but that did not work. On Task manager,processes mmsconfig.exe is running @ 229.777kb and i dont even know what it is plus there's a lot of processes that running that i dont know of.
Every time the users open our database it give a virtual memory error,PLEASE HELP.

hey dave.. i m having the problems tht nowadays most ppl have.. my task manager has been disabled.. wen i press CTRL+ALT+DEL a message pops up "your task manager has been disabled".
I really dont kno wat to do.. is there a solution to my prob???
To shutdown some of the processes in my sys which is takin to much of the systems VM, wat to do??? i m not able to access any of the features of an admin..?? plz do help.. ty

I've been having the problem but i don't think its a memory leak or anything, ive uninstalled and reinstalled the program, i have 1gig of ram but when i checked my page file size it was only 768 to 1536 or something so i changed it to 1.5 times 1gig for the minimum and 2 times for maximum, and i think i fixed it

So simple! You're awesome T_T

hi dave,
i have some problem about virtual memory of system. system shows the message that the virtual memory is low. can i increase the size of virtual memory. in this system,paging file is already double of ram. can i increase the size of virtual memory. if i will do this process then will i face any problem in this system.

My offending program is waol.exe ? what can i do ?

I'm running Windows 2000 with a 512MB RAM. Recently it has been painfully slow. I realised there is a small program called SVCHOST.EXE that now takes up my processor time. Where did it coming from? How I deal with it?

YOU MADE IT SO EASY FOR ME TO FIND THE PROBLEM. THANKS!

You r really good.keep up the good work!
Wish you all the best!

Dave, you rock my world.

Sorry wrong input for the first comment...here's the solution for windows vista users.

http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/10/unlockme-low-memory-warning-on-windows.html

I did all that you recommended and found out that the biggest size of memory used was 24.576K, VM size: 377,008K by swdsvc.exe (User: System) I assume that I am not supposed to touch the system. The next biggest memory is: iexplore.exe 4 rows of it. Which program is that one? and what am I supposed to do about it.
Thanks for your help
Renee (a 73 years old grand'ma, ususally good with computers :)

I have a windows 2000 system, and I upgraded from 10gig to 32gig via ghost2003. The system gets up to log in and then goes to a grey screen with a big box that says "Paging file does not exist, or is too small" and a bunch of other related things. I cannot get past this, I tried safe mode and it stops at the same place.how to increase virtual memory at logon window itself, is there any command to increase it from the dos.
we are using 3GHz processor 1GB Physical RAM, 160 GB HD.

Thanks&Regards,

Thanks! Finally i got it resolved!
I can 100% recommed this for other peoples!

hi Dave,

when i dbl click drivers on My Computer(C:,D:,E:)
it open in new window.already i selected radio button in Folder option,General,open folder in same window.hoe do i solve this problem.pls tel me.

thanx.

thanks a lot dave..

thanks for ur advice on troubleshooting low virtual memory..

by doing ur advice, my pc is now back to normal..

thanks a lot dave!!

Hi Dave,
I have a comuter that is telling me that my virtual memory is too low. We are running windows XP, I did ctrl, alt deleteand there is a program that is using way too much memory. It is syssvcnt.exe and vm size at the moment 1,974,328 K, we have 1 gig of ram on our computer. Pleas let me no what i can do with problem.

thankyou dewain.

Hey I have a Intel pentium 4 2,80 Ghz processor with Windows XP home edition SP2 with 1 gig of ram and im always getting the Memory low error when i load windows, i've tryed alot of things including RegCure and other error fixing programs with no luck, I made sure that the Administrators and System account we're at full access and still the problem continues, Im pretty much pulling my hair here lol, let me know what you think or if you'd need more information on my system, Thank you very much

I am a Physics Teacher and You have all the qualities of an excellent teacher as one philosopher said " A teacher can affect eternity "

Sorry about the spellings I am an Indian

Hi! I've Intel Celeron D 2.13Ghz processor , 256mb RAM, 64mb Graphics Card, 40gb Hard Disc in my PC. I had installed NFS Most Wanted game in my PC, but when I play it, after 20 or 30 minutes of play, game closes itself and my PC display that 'Your System's Virtual Memory is Low'. I've all the requirement which this game needs, then what's wrong. I can't upgrade my pc yet, I've to wait for it for about 1 year. So, is there any way from which i can play this game?

I'm confused. I'm looking at virtual memory numbers now -- but how much is 'too much?' My problem is that my laptop is -- sporadically, but especially on startup -- way too slow. I've already slimmed down the number of apps on startup.

tnx po this info

sha

Hi Dave and thanks for your help, I also get the low virtual memory message and I found out that Aolsoftware.exe is using 855.000k of VM even when not in use.
Thanks again

thanks for the info...

Novice, can't and /or don't know where to look for my URL. Computer very sloe, have low virtual memory problems. Can I close AOLSSC.exe, Explorer.exe, mcvsescn.exe, svchost.exe, winlogon.exe, and aolsoftware.exe safely?

hello
please could you help me i would like to know how to enable your task player.
thanks

1) I am running Windows XP, winbook V-series/G330, Intel (R) Celern (R) M, Processor 1.50 GHz, 224 MB of Ram. Recently it has been very slow. I tried opening Task Manager and realized there are several small program called SVCHOST.EXE. What is this and how do I deal with it?

2. Since I did my Defragmentation, the system has been giving an error message on booting; Virtual memory low,(which I increased my virtural memory but not sure id its good) and when I open my Micro soft outlook, I will "Paging file does not exist,or wininstaller missing reeinstall Microsoft outlook. I do that and it doesn't work. I will open outlook and it will shut down on its own this problem reappears each time I boot. Please help.

I'm running a program Multimedia Center but,if i close this program always appear this comment "

Runtime error!

program:..common files\sonic shared\sonic central\Main\Mediahub.exe

R6025
-pure virtual function call

please help me.how i can fix this problem.

Im running windows xp, when i turned on my computer it told me i'm running out of virtual memory, run time error and application error pops up often. My problem is that it wont let me do anything. While reading some of the ideas here I open the windows task manager and found IEXPLORE.EXE got the highest memory usage. Can I uninstall it and how can I reinstall it? How can I possibly increase my virtual memory? Thanks in advance for helping.

Logging on to windows 2003 domain server (PDC) from XP client takes long time.
It says 'applying perosnal settings', and at this point it almost takes 15 minutes ?
How do I resolve the problem.

hello,

I have a laptop compaq presario x1000. it was giving me msg saying virtual memory too low. but now i cant even get to start menu when i start the laptop i just see windows xp screen and its trying to load something thats all. it stops right there tried rebooting nothing is working. i am out of warranty. how to fix it. thanks in advance

Really thanks a lot for the info.
Helped me a lot :)

Excellent, super fast fix - thought there wasnt much left to learn, obviously mistaken!

mmmm ipoint.exe 2GB leaky

Dave,
Not knowing how to resolve the virtual memory issue, I came here to your site and explored the possible resolutions and I have to say that I was most pleased with mu newly found discovery. It is people like who appreciates people like you and I wish you great success and you deserve mucg love for helping us that are quite the novice.
Keep it real and I am sure that I will visit you again.
It's all good!
Jimbo

Thankyou so much- you fixed my problem.
My computer kept coming up with that message and after a while it would just shut itself down.
I followed your directions and found the problem...Limewire!
I turned off Limewire and now my computer is running better than ever.
Thankyou so much for your clear and correct directions. I am so grateful!

i have a pc with adm processor, 1.87 gig of ram, 1.80 GHz
i've got win xp pro sp2 32bit on it.................
the pc is workin quiet good but every time i scroll down or up a page, site or move something left right, up down it goes really slow is like the whole pc just go slow motion and when i stop i works normal..i looked at the taskmanager i noticed that everytime i scroll or move something up and down the cpu usage goes up to 100 en when i stop movin it goed back down
en when i'm playen i video on youtube it plays only in small size if i try to use it fullscreen it goed very slow also

its very annoiyng plase help me !!!!!!

Great work Dave....keep it up

So helpful, Dave, thank you so much - for the first time ever I have read a help page that didn't confuse the life out of me! Good job!

i dont know how can i fix my computer..
im a new user in computer and im not familiar with the computer world..

my computer is "virtual memory too low..."

i dont really know what to do..
im scared to keep clicking with those instructions that posted in your site..
maybe you could help me the easier steps..
thank you so much!!

1.I am a Silver Surfer. Windows Medea Player latest upgrade.Am trying to burn from the Library onto blank CD. Have selected 'Audio CD' and 'WMA' format. Having dragged selected music title over to the List Pane, I am instructed to click 'Start Burn'.
Immediately the disc is ejected from the drive!
I note that there is no Menu Bar with his upgrade!

2.I have burned another way using 'My Music' with a right click and 'Send to' method. The new CD will play OK on my computer, but not on a commercial CD Player.

Windows Media Player (XP)Latest upgrade. I want to burn music from the Library to a new blank CD. Have selected 'Audio CD' and WMA format. I drag selected music title from Details Pane to List Pane. Click 'Start Burn'. The blank CD is immediately ejected! I am missing a move somewhere. Hope you can help. Thanks from a Silver Surfer.

I have lost My IE on my computer. I use Windows XP. Is there a download where I can get it back?
Thank You.

I have iexplore.exe and it is 151,592k and i dont understand what you mean when say if kept open for a week, i always turn internet off and link when use it, doesnt this turn it off ? also on my pc it says i have 87% free space on my c drive.
But i am having this virtual memory message come up and does slow my system down, im very basic with pcs so would appreciate how to sort this out.