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.

Hi I am having the dreaded virtual memory problem and I am sure it is being caused by aol as my connection has been automatically upgraded and aol have also been downloading loads of files and extensions that have over loaded my pc and I have also let aol running for very long periods of time,
HOW DO I SORT OUT MY VIRTUAL MEMORY WITHOUT IT DISRUPTING MY AOL SERVICE AS I NEED AOL TO RUN EFFICIENTLY???????????????? AND HOW DO I FREE UP THE MEMORY AOL IS USING????????????

Hello, thanks for the tips it really helped. I have a Dell Latitude and I need to do what ever I can to do all I can.

Thank you so much. This has really helped me a lot. I was a doofus at not knowing. But this article has really helped me to find a solution to this constant problem of "low virtual memory". Thanks a million.

Pranami :)

Dave,

Thanks for the help with this topic, it's useful. I have a problem though, my Task Manager does not load - when I hit cntl-shft-esc, I get the message "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator" I can't see how that can be. I do know I have lost my desktop background, etc. I have the feeling my pc has been highjacked by something!

Thankyou Dave this is the first time am visiting ur site thankyou verymuch its very helpful..
'can u pls have a original copy of ur picture instead of the animated one'
regards,
zaheer

I am running a pretty generic XP Home and IE 7, and IE is taking up a friggin 814 megs of virtual memory according to process explorer. I run out of virtual memory mid day every day. How in the world can I fix an IE memory leak?? By the way, I have all the MS updates installed.

please you are the best I understood your explaination but I'm not linked to the internet so how can I over come this problem because I need to do a serious work with my PC today please help me thanks

My son has a HP laptop with 512Gb Memory. we thought the hard drive was shot, but decided to reinstall
Windows XP. The computer will boot up to the Windows logo then the screen goes blank and we get an error about not enough virtual memory. We are stuck here. We can get into setup. Any ideas on how to proceed.

Thanks.

thanks for this, it was very helpful and fixed my problem, THANK YOU! I looked at other sites, NOT as helpful!

Very Cool Site. Thank you. Got my answer..complete and totally understandable. God (or other word of choosing) spede you God prosper you.

Hello Dave,
Please help desperate from New Zealand.
Have magore problems! going out on Google it continually jumps to other sights!
Then wam got some infection start snow drifting and the curser jumps, tried re-booting and this has been blocked/canceled, also now virtual memory is dangerously low windows drive has only 64mb free ram disc space available is critically low , so completely uninstaled Google/installed Firefox from reading your blog realise that Ffox uses very high VM, thier is definately a trogen or virus in the system, Have used threatfire spyblaster super-antyspyware deletes some items but they resurface every time I re-start computer. running XP 512 ram, some bad stuff I think- smits Froud-c.gp / smits froud-c / real casino's/trogen.dns changer codec 13 items
Super antispyware found 5 items. will try going into task manager and check out VM size as per your info posted thanks for all info.
Any help appreciated thanks.

Dave,This web site is most impressive. Thanks for sharing......Regards...Jim Boswell

iexplore seems to take up my virtural memory it says 107.000kb can you help please

firefox/ mozilla apps are notorious for memory leaks. I have found that one of the biggest culprits to be an app called "webmynd". This app is designed to act like spyware for those who want to keep track of the goings on of their computer. A major contributor to the "low virtual memory" messages.

Worked like a charm. Found that the program with the leak was Talk & Write, an application written for Skype. Since I never use it, I went ahead and DELETE!

Thanks Dave

Hi Dave

You advice was very useful, but I'm still experiencing virtual memory problems. My paging file size says 541 mb with custom settings that I've changed to 372-4050. My C-drive has 55138mb available and my laptop has 248mb of ram.

The virtual memory message keeps coming up when I'm using the internet. My applications usage are:

iexplore.exe 340mb
sxchost.exe 16.5mb
then explorer.exe, avgrsx and avgemc the next biggest. My physical memory appears to be 246.42mb. Also, windows updates keeps updating and asking me to restart the computer.

I'd be grateful if you had any ideas?!

Many thanks

i have a problem ...my friend told me i need a bigger harddrive then i read ur page seems like it would work but the biggest one is my firefox next to that isccsvchst which i have no idea what that is should i delete it??? help

Hello Dave,

I followed your steps and learned that the Scanning Processes 78k and IExplorer 46K is my problem. Unfortunately, I have no idea with Scanning Processes is and how to delete or replace the software. Please help! Thanks loads!

respected
dear dave this is first time i have found my querries being solved as easier way thank for giving the knowledge about my search.

I recently formatted my pc thinking the large space consumed in my hard drive is the cause why my pc shutdown automatically. I also got this @low vitual mem@ but it still happens (shutdown)

I also happen to have this super converter exe and everytime i open it, my pc shows an error @system shutdown or something. HELP!

Thanks...

You explain what to do for Windows XP Pro but what about Windows XP Home? Also there are several Registry Cleaners advertised here. Will they really help my virtual memory? If so...which one do you recommend?

I have been getting this windows XP little pop up window almost everyday now. "windows virtual memory minimum too low" and yes, that it is increasing my page file. This has worried me. That you so much for your help.
~~Carla

Hi ,
Thanks for this. Landed on this perfect page for setting my VMemory low problem right.. And just you had mentioned, it was Firefox which was the culprit. and you hit the nail on the head, it was open for more than a week. Couldnt thank you more.

hi,do not have a great deal of knowledge on computers!my comp says it is low on virtual memory.keeps crashing when i open applications and is on a completely go slow.i have a registered version of reg-cure.this helps for about 30 mins,then it is back to normal.crashing,on a go slow and low on virtual memory.any ideas please.it is driving me mad!please remember i am not a computer geek!

i have dvix and when i download movies and put them on my ex hard drive i get the message windows has encountered a problem and needs to close,can you help please,pat

I ve gone through the solution you gave , but ve not use it yet ,i hope it works.lastly i commend you for the good work you are doing already.
peter paul.

My Task Manager,Several processes are running named svchost.exe due to which my the virtual memory is used up in maximum and the Computer Slows Down or a error message " Sys Fader : iexplorer.exe - Application error " instruction at "0x03c1ce40 ref memory cannot be read . come up and all the open IE windows are closed down .
While shutting down messages like DSLagent.exe, STI:Launchpad.exe , Explorer.exe , hphmon05.exe application error cancel to debug or ok to close comes up at that time .
During star up message WINDOWS SCRIPT HOST
Cannot find script file " C:\WINDOWS\system32\boot.vbs comes up
I'm totally puzzeled please help me .
Regards
Paul

PLEASE HEPL ME SOLVE THE PROBLEM
REGARDS
PAUL

Just wanted to say thanks. I was googling this error message repeatedly, and clicking lots of links, and yours was the first that said something that was actually sensible and useful.

I get the low virtual memory warning and only a blank screen. How can I get to where UI can address the problem?

In the task manager, it shows that indeed my firefox is first and yahoo messenger is second to take up my memory. firefox mem usage is 85,304k - vm sz.94,768k. messenger is 14,204k mem - 50,448k vm. What do you think I should do about it? I didn't see any answers to the questions people asked you. Thanks

Dave, Can you help? I have a windows XP OS and cannot boot it up whenever it gets to the windows intropage i get the "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file." message and then nothing happens forever!!! I can't boot up the computer because of this so i cant get into it to try to fix it. Do you have any suggestions please. The computer has 512 RAM and 80 G hard drive thank you in advance for any thing you can suggest

dave can u tell me wot RPS.exe is becouse it is using more memory than internet explorer and i think this is slowing down my computer. i have windows xp if thats any help thx

Thanks
This was giving me real problems b4 i found this
damn dvd decryptor!!!!!

You said, "Virtual memory is the sum of physical memory and the page file."

This is false. Virtual memory is the opposite of physical memory. The page file IS the virtual memory.

hello,

I have a laptop compaq presario Sony Vao K33. 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

I've had this problem before and as such, took my laptop to an I.T technician who carried out a general diagnostic, cleaned my computer of all little bugs and upgraded my RAM from 256 to 1Gb. Now however the'low virtual memory' problem is back! I followed ur steps provided and have identified the problem. iexplorer.exe has what seems like an excessive 403,048k of VM size where as my next highest is only 26,292k. Have you any advice for what my next step should be? Thank you very much in advance.
David

You are Awesome! I got it resolved in few minutes after reading your post.

i have a intel4 core duo with 1gb of ram. recently i installed winxp sp2 again fresh instal on d: drv (dual boot) .i think i have issue with virtual memory, but have never got any popup stating u r low on it .now the xp which i have on primary drive is corrupted & infected i guess as i get too lot of those messages. my firefox is taking 102896k vm .my available phy memory as per tsk mgr is 350mb .now the real problem starts when i use media player 11.with just 3 windows of firefox open my cpu usage reaches 92% and the songs i play in media plyr get stuck or appear scratchy..even media player takes 182464k in tsk mr . what all performance steps u can suggest to get me goin . dave this is the first site where i have seen such indepth issues but i don'nt see the answers to the questions asked . since i am a first timer 2 this site i have no clue how the questions r ans and how long it takes for ur reply ...anyways have got high hopes tht u wud b able to help me ( my pf usage in tsk reamins constant at arnd 550mb ).

my PC is 1GB processor and 256 ram,window xp instal.my system virtuial memory is very low.can anyone help me what can i do.

Thanks Dave. It is so refreshing to read such helpful information explained in such a simple way. I am so glad I found your site and will be a fan forever. You rock!! :oD

Hi,
My PC is Pentium (R)4, CPU 3.00 GHz processor, 2.5 RAM, Windows XP SP2 installed. I also use Oracle developer Suite, and Forms in it as well as some editing softwares like Corel 12, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro 6, Some multimedia Softwares etc.

What should be the Minimum and Maximum Virtual Memory I should configure to run it?

My PC also needs to be running 24X7 as it is connceted and used for some updates to my Linux Server which has Oracle Database.

Thanks :-)

Does anyone else have a problem with Safari, its taking up 668 of VM : (

Windows has historical had this issue when it has a gig or more of ram to play with, I know for a fact the it exists in Windows ME and think it's silly of us to assume that anything has changed given Microsoft's history on actually fixing flaws in their OS, now if I could just find that fix again......

"For best performance, do not set the initial size to less than the minimum recommended size under Total paging file size for all drives. The recommended size is the same as 1.5 times the RAM on your computer. It is good practice to leave the paging file at its recommended size as performance can decrease if a paging file is too large. However, you may increase its size if you frequently use programs that use lots of memory, such as graphics programs or games."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417

From the horse's mouth sort of speak, so then this really shouldn't be a problem.

Give this a try:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912

Hai Dave,

U r gr8... Thank you for ur info.

Harry

Hi Dave.. I am using Firefox and when I am on myspace the screen freezes and says that firefox myspace is not responding..I keep trying to refresh the page and most of the time it clears up..but sometimes it doesnt..and also windows says it is adding virtual memory and I saw where you said to uninstall and reinstall the program that I think is causing this..I did what you said and checked the virtual memory and yes firefox and IE is using alot of memory..if that doesn't work is there anything else I could do?

Thanks April

So I checked out what program was taking up all my VM and found out that it was Adobe Reader 8.0, and was taking up about 750,000 K... is this normal for this application, or does it require uninstallation and reinstallation? I'd rather not go through the process if it's not necessary.

Hi thank a million this helped me so much.Good bless u okay

Excellent...

I went through and did what you said with the task manager...I have come to find that my SpySweeper is whats taking up the most VM. How do I fix this issue?

I have a 2 yr old system with 896MB of total physical memory. All of a sudden I started getting a few "Virtual Memory Error" messages. Orig had set min to (856*1.5)1344MB and max to 2688MB. Then I changed to min and max the same at 1344MB. Should I just let the system select what the min and max should be for Virtual Memory? I did that too but still got a few messages.

I have Norton and some good Registry software.

Should I defrag system even though when i go to analyze it, the system says it does Not need defragging?

Thanks

thank you very much. :)

why is it when i use the built in mouse on my laptop (i don't know how to call it), sometimes it freezes and when the cursor moves, it goes back to the previous page? please advise. thanks

I have been getting error notices when closing Internet Explorer in the past few weeks and now am getting the "low on virtual memory" warning. Using your solution at the top of this post to diagnose the problem, it is my Internet Exporer app that appears to be using a lot of memory (158,984K). Should I uninstall and then reinstall Internet Explorer? and how do I do this process?

Question: What do I do to fix the virtual memory when it is too low? -Johnson

Solution: I assume that you got a little balloon in the bottom right-hand corner announcing that your virtual memory is low and that Windows is adjusting it. If this happens just once, don't worry—as the message said, Windows found a problem and fixed it. But if it happens repeatedly, it could be that your settings don't allow Windows to make the necessary adjustment. First, make sure your drive isn't overly full. In Windows Explorer, right-click the drive icon and choose Properties. If the amount of free space is under about 10 percent, you'll need to free up some space. You can use the Disk Cleanup button right next to the free space indicator, or manually move some files to off-line storage, or uninstall unnecessary applications—whatever it takes to get more free space.

If low drive space isn't the problem, the virtual-memory settings may be wrong. Right-click My Computer and choose Properties. Click the Advanced tab. Click the Settings button in the Performance panel. Click the Advanced tab in the Performance dialog. Click the Change button in the Virtual memory panel. Whew! This setting is buried quite thoroughly! Look for the System managed size option, select it if it isn't already selected, and then click OK, OK, OK. That should end the warnings.

Task Manager shows the VM size of VSSERV.EXE on my computer is very large and my computer has slowed considerably recently. Could this be the cause and can I do any thing about it?
Thanks, Gary

When i turn on my computer my icons come up on the screen but behind the icons are a whole bunch of words about my desk top can you help me remove all of this? my computer runs fine but this is just a problem for me.

I get low virtual memory....warning...i increased the virtual memory size, dont get that warning anymore...but my system is still slow.

i must have several programs open at the same time to do my job..i work from home.

my email has gotten very slow and sometimes fails to do simple task as open or show new emails. I also run yahoo messenger to communicate with supervisor....

help....i run advanced windows care daily at log off...i really dont know what to do

i went to task manager and IE is my biggest user.....how do i uninstall and reinstall that? or is that the fix

dave I installed a tiger woods 2003 pga golf game,the program was running fine,then all of a sudden a message stated "active x is reporting that your virtual memory is too low"after this message the screen resolution changed from my setting of 1024x768 to the computer setting itself to 800x600.and that I didnt have enough "video memory"to run the program.Previously I had 1024 sd ddr ram with no other games installed.Then yesterday I put another gig of ram into the computer which brings
my total to 2 gigs of ram!which i know is plenty.How do I fix this problem so that i can play my golf game ???please help

And what if a "Select Columns" option ( in Processes tab in Task Manager) doesn't exist?

Running Windows XP Professional and have checked to see where the leak is. The most used is iexplorer at 1,738,16... K, which seems to be extremely large. Next in line is Spybot at 97,000K and TEaTimer at 91,000K, Ad-Aware at 69,000K, and CCSVCHST at 41,576K. YAHOOM~1 is at 32,804 and explorer is at 24,748K. There are four more that are between 18000K and 24000K and then everything else is below 8,000K. My computer has been so slow on the internet that it takes forever to load some websites and then eventually freezes, forcing me to shut the computer down at the tower. I never leave it on overnight and keep it off until I'm ready to use it again. How can I fix my problem?

When I hit control alt delete, my computer does not have the options you mention. Please update for ALL types of XP.

dear Dave,pls help!!!
My PC keeps on restarting in every interval ie, every 20 minutes or sometimes swithes off and on even after the post beep pls let me know as to which hardware is to be replaced or what exactly is the problm?

thanking you

venga

Hi

i have been facing this problem from a long time now... the solution given above is a bit complicated... i found a soultion here... hope this helps others as well..

http://dummy-essentials.blogspot.com/2009/06/error-system-is-low-on-virtual-memory.html
.

U R GOD!!!!!!!

Hi Dave!

I have the problem of installing network drivers for my laptop, it keeps complaining that they are incompatible, and my note is acer aspire 4315. please help.

my graphics card memory is 256mb but now it became 96mb.please help me.

Hey!! Dave
Finally I got your name here, I am having problem with my laptop. I used team viewer before. I installed it as commercial while I don't know about that. and when i install commercial, I didn't care the expire date. now it is totally expired and even i installed it asks for license code. I took so many suggestion from my friends, from net help assistance but I can't change the registry. do you have any idea to re-install it as like the beginner, means same trial verson or non-commercial verson. I am having so much worried about that coz team viewer is the means of my part in life. coz my family don't know how to use computers, so I always ask for team viewer password and managed from here. and do communicate. now a days I am quit distrubed by this problem, will you help me sir? please kindly responding my problem. thanks

Thank you it is resolved

Hi Dave, many thanks. Great article! Very well explained.

You answered my question perfectly about this issue. Excellent explanation and the screen shots help.

Dave, I am still kinda lost here with my virtual memory, I opened my windows task mang. clicked on the processor tab and then veiw and I see that iexplor.exe is taking up 91,768k in the vm size colm, next is my sprintSV.exe for my internet that is taking up 20,888k ... now I really don't know what to do next, I keep getting that message
"Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file." Please tell me what I should do next to fix this... thanks M>

All you guys have to do is raise your virtual memory it is not brain surgery it is very easy to do and you will never get the your to low again. Just go to my computer and right click on the background and select advanced and under performance hit the settings button then select advanced then under virtual memory select change then select custom size then just double the speed numbers.

i have dvix and when i download movies and put them on my ex hard drive i get the message windows has encountered a problem and needs to close,can you help please,pat
Posted by: pat doran at November 24, 2008 2:17 PM

DO the movies work before you put them on your ex hard drive? if so it could be the ex hard drive is failing. try to save what you put on it to another and clear it off. and then format it. If this works try not to put much on the old hard drive because if it has crashed once before it can again so keeping atleast 2 to 3 gigs free on it. any further questions email me notaredneckx@gmail.com

From your words, it sounds like you can help my situation. I've been having problems w/ a slow pc. Having some familiarity with programming, I've already performed to steps you described here. My offending program seems to be avgnsx.exe (AVG 8.5 otc). It eats most of my VM (60,000 - 1,000,000 + KB VM whoa). I've re-installed, with same behavior. I suspect a memory leak, as you mentioned, and am wondering how to resolve this situation.

thanks for the great job your doing for us. am always getting a message about low virtual, cant i disable it?

Dave,Following your directions I pressed column but I did not get virtual size. I got box with 5 little squares for.... user name
ID
Status
Client name
Session

What now

I tried shutting down programs in the task managner and changing the settings, numerous times, and each time I reboot the virtual memory settings remain the same - 0. It makes no difference what size I put in for either memory blanks, from 2 to 4096 or anywhere inbetween, it always reverts to zero. Any idea where I need to look next?

George (Sept. 18, 2009) - Before selecting "view" and then "select columns" make sure you have selected the processes tab. The result you got happens when you have the users tab selected and you select "view" and "select columns".

how to turn off some programs which use most of virtual memory...exm. firefox 750,000k :((((
Help

What if internet explorer is the cause? How do u fix that? It shows up as 1st & 2nd on the list and then explorer.exe shows up 5th, iexplorer.exe again on lines 11 & 12 for a wopping 150,000+ K!!! How do I fix that?

I am using Windows XP Media center edition 2002 s/n AMD Athlon 64X2 dual core processor 4600+986MHz 2.00GB of Ram. I was told this was a very good computer for gaming but it seems I can't even have two programs (non-gaming) w/out my comp turning off unexpectadly. It's fan blows furiously, as if I was overloading it then everything just blacks out. I notice it does it when Norton tries to do a full system scan. I notice it happens more often when i have larger applications running. I checked my vertual memory & internet explorer takes a wopping 150,000+K! It also appears at least 4xs on the list. How do I fix this & could this be the cause or only cause? How does norton play into this?

Virtual Memory Low
Goto Start then run, then type in msconfig, then click on the STARTUP tab, then uncheck everything you don't need.

I play computer games and i can play wow easy with no problem then I play a private server on a game that has minimal requirements to play compared to wow and I cannont play it because it says i have virtual memory low. I tried doing your steps and it was already set to system automatically. I've tried editing the page filling but that doesn't work. Can you please help me.

Hey, thank you! I still live in a household and being a computer wiz compared to my family when the house computer started to state "virtual memory low" my mom thought I downloaded a virus. Yeeeaaaaaaaah, if anyone did, it would be my sister or my porn-surfing brother. Thanks.

Dear Dave,

On my PC I run Windows XP, and the Internet Explorer has been acting strangely over the past several weeks. If I open a page of a let’s newspaper its home page covers the space of my monitor as it should be. But when I click on a page within their website the space starts “rolling up”. It shrinks. Every new page gets smaller space until it disappears completely. Can you please advise me what to do to sort this out? Many thanks. Mirza

Hi, DEV

I read your answer and understand very well you are good teacher. your language is very simple and understandable.

If I have some quary then how can I ask you ?
Thankyou

Gurmeet Singh

Thank you, this helped me figure out what the issue was.

I originally had 256 MB DDR and I upgraded the ram to 512 MB (256 MB + 512 MB =768 MB). When I installed window XP sp2 after installation XP system reboot automatically and showing a virtual memory error message. Can you resolve the problem any one.

been having trouble with this for a very very very long time. definitely helps to understand what virtual memory is and see what apps are comsuming it. thx so much!!!!

hey dave my pc is saying vertual memory low an it is really stickin an freezin but i dont knw wut to do can u help me please thanks

My computer is Lenovo Core2Due Processor. When i tried to load some software and many website when i faced trouble about virtual memory. Please suggest me that how i increase my system virtual memory to i work easily without any difficulty.

Dave , Please help. I did everything you said. It shows 856,716 K is SERVICES.EXE. What's that? I a m tryin g to END PROCESS TREE, but It doesn 't work.
Please H E L P!!!

Big pagefile issues.
Can't create it anymore. Changes won't stay after setting on either drive. VM is always set to 0 megabytes.

Have checked and set all permissions in Safe Mode.

Have uninstalled hard drive controllers and re-installed with Plug and Play.

I have an Athlon XP2400 2GIGhz - 2 gig RAM. 2 hard drives 80 gig boot drive / second drive 160 gig.

Running Windows XP Professional SP 3.

The system is at a crawl.

Help please.

Thanks,

Tom Leparskas
Windsor,Ontario, Canada

for u firefox fans that leave it open over night even days at a time press ctrl+d and close it(or click bookmark all-rightclick on a tab-).it takes u less than 10s to do it and also u can load pages again from bookmarks at firefox startup...no memory problem there

How do I change the sound card on my computer.

Hey. I was wondering if you could help me with an issue. Whenever I use an internet browser - explorer, firefox, or ggle.chrome - to download or watch video online. the browsers freeze, along with the laptop - the commit charge ratio starts increasing like wild fire. If I'm lucky I can shut down the browser from Task manager, but I usually have to restart laptop. I have run NOD32 no virus, malwarebytes no malware. not sure what else I can do. Hope you can help. Thanks.

Hi Dave
Man the best thing that i found since ice cream is your web site what a site !!!!!!!
but i have a problem im not so much of a guru as you my pc starts up correctly but as soon as it started up my colour on my screen seems to benot what it use to be how can i fix it please help

I really appreciate a site that is very clear and consise in it's explanations. This is definately one of those sites. Dave thank you for providing this information.
I will now look into the rest of the site.

Michael Daniels

i have some problem in my sysytem.. when i download files from internet then its show out of memory .. how can i slove this problem

hi dave, i have deleted more than 1000 places which i had saved in google earth how can bring them back i really need them urgent plz reply me i'm waiting for you

my computer shows that task manager is disabled. Please let me know how to enable the task manager.

Dave my wife made a back up disk and accidently saved it to the hard drive of the computer and now the computer is saying that the memory is full.How do i get the computer back working right.

dave,

i have a 128mb ram. now my problem is that im haveing a vm low. what can i do to fix this? shall i buy a bigger ram? or is there any solutions to my vm lo problem?

Dave-
Great site, but initially didn't understand that you didn't post answers to specific queries. Here's mine: when doing the virtual memory too low checking in task manager, my machine has two seperate listings for iexplore.exe The one up top has VM Size 62,620K and Mem Usage 24,304K, while the other, down the bottom of a long list of image names has VM size 170,480K and Mem usage 95,556K.
I can't just uninstall Internet Explorer, or I'll have no way to re-install. Also, will uninstalling get both listings off my machine and do I even want to do that, or just somehow get rid of the bottom listing for iexplore.exe So how do I resolve this?

Scanner.exe is using almost 80% memory how to control it

Why do you sell this stuff this way?????
If you told me it would cost $xxx I would probably purchase. When your site says free, then does a check and finds lots of problems then you say pay up
Is this an American site?

John, I'm afraid that you might have mistaken an advertisement on my site for the actually answer to your question about fixing the too little virtual memory error. I don't sell anything at all on this site, but my advertisers definitely do, just as they do on TV, the radio and in newspapers and magazines. Sorry for the confusion.

I am low on virtual memory
and the top one in task master is avp.exe which is showing 88,000k odd system user and then same is listed three below under my user name at 15000k what is this and how do i correct it please help

Hi dave,, hope you can help. i`ve been trying to sort out a low virtual memory, when i cllicked the no paging file. after that my pc wont work, i cant even system restore, it just says not enough memory. please help (very frustrated) sarah

THANK YOU SO MUCH MY DEAR CHAP.YOUR ARTICLE GAVE ME AN OUTSTANDING KNOWLEDGE TO SOLVE MY PROBLEM, WHICH MY WORD FAILS TO DESCRIBE AT THIS MOMENT.

hi...

i have a problem in virtual memeory, that is while running C#.net applications (Not in idle state of application), virtual memory size is keeps increasing and it leads to hang of computer....

pls help me....

Thanks for the troubleshooting tips! It led me to discover what a memory hog internet explorer is. I am off to find a better browser that more closely addresses my accessiblity requirements.

i have a P III 700 Mhz with 128 MB RAM With WINDOWS XP. The message of virtual memory keeps on cropping up and hanging the system particularly Internet explorer 8. Please help

hi ive read alot about memory probs, but ive just had windows 7 put on my laptop & its runing faster which is great, but when i went to download bing for assessing my email quicker it said id low memory, i use explorer & firefox so should i choose another browser? which is best please, thanks sandra

Man...what a difference...Thanks Bro

Thanks Dave, for your handy and admirable techy advice about troubleshooting malfunctioning pc.
I have a problem though:
I have PC PIV, RAM 512MB, 2.6GHZ, but every time switch on my pc, it can't pick up, but instead it has to warm up for a few min, upon which i will have to turn it off and turn it of within a sec, otherwise, it won't work, what might be the problem? Please, help.
Thanks, Peter.

thanks ,for guiding to detect root cause and tell me how to fix this problem

WOW.. this post started in 2005 and the comments just kept going! Something tells me this is a topic worth revisiting! Thanks for the great info Dave... do even remember writing this :)

I am having virtual memory problems. I followed your instructions and it is aolsoftware.exe. Is there a way to fix that? I am a retiree and spend a lot of time on AOL. Any suggestions to get this fixed would be appreciated. Thanks

Dianne

Dianne, sounds to me like aolsoftware.exe is your AOL system. You don't want to kill that or remove it if you still want acces to AOL. Maybe reboot the system every day, see if that helps? Make sure you don't have tons of other stuff starting up when your system boots, too.

U can also select priority for each task

Dear Dave:

I am running Windows XP HOME Edition, SP2. I have very little RAM on my laptop, so I decided to build up the virtual memory. I have a 40G hard drive on the laptop. I have three external drives, two 80G and a 1Tb. I set the virtual memory from System>Advanced>Performance>Advanced>Virtual Memory to 1G (minimum and maximum) on the system drive and the two smaller drives, and 2G (minimum and maximum) on the 1Tb drive. After that the total paging file size for all drives read 1G. I rebooted. Still 1G.

I have set all of the external drives to Basic /not/ Dynamic. I have found the Share Creation Wizard and set all of the root directories of the external drives to allow "Full Control" to SYSTEM.

The pagefile.sys files in each of the root directories of the external drives is still 0 bytes and the total paging file size for all drives is still only 1G.

What is going on?

Hi. I just started patching my own memory leaks and virtual memory problems. I've noticed that the google engine started to leak a lot of memory and I know because I left the page open over night and even some times for a week at a time. Thank you so much for helping and I am happy that I can now patch my own memory leaks like many here have talked about in this post.

hey this worked for me thanks for the help.