"Neobreaker" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> lately ive been having these messages about my memory being low so i
> should close some programs or not enough memory to do certain things, so
> i uninstalled about 3 games big ones too and it still is showing the
> same old messages my memory is decreasing instead of increasing ive
> basically stripped my computer of all the things ive downloaded that
> might take up memory and when i go to "My Computer" it says i have 12 GB
> free of 72 GB of memory and it goes anywhere from 10-20 but it keeps
> decreasing i fear soon my computer wont work at all.
>
> ive ran defrag programs and they said my computer was heavily
> fragmented so i defraged it and now it isnt fragmented but the memory is
> still the same,
>
> does anyone know what i should do or any free programs that could fix
> this?
>
>
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> Neobreaker
You are confusing "MEMORY" with hard drive space. When you get the not
enough memory message it means the physical memory and the virtual memory in
use in your computer is almost totally being used. There are some programs
that cause this more than others by having what are called "memory leaks"
where the program doesn't release memory that it isn't using for use by
other programs or processes. A lot of games have this issue and I see you
mentioned games. While hard drive space is used for the virtual memory in
the computer the not enough memory is not normally related to low hard drive
space.
The first fix for this is simply rebooting the computer. If it occurs
immediately after rebooting the next thing to do is check your virtual
memory (page file). To check and increase your virtual memory:
Open the Control Panel
Go to System and Maintenance
Then, click on System (should be the 3rd item down the list)
Next, look in the side bar to the left and click on Advanced System Settings
(UAC will announce its presence) and a new window will pop up
Look for the Performance section on the window and click the Settings
button, which will open a new window
Click on the Advanced tab at the top of the new window
Now, in the middle of the window, there should be a section called Virtual
Memory
Examine this number. A good practice is to set this number to twice that of
your physical RAM. For instance, if you have 1024MB of RAM, you will want
your Virtual Memory set to 2048MB. I have 2048MB of RAM and therefore, I
will set my Virtual Memory to 4096MB.
This number has a limit, depending on your version of Vista. All 32-bit
versions of Vista have a memory cap of 4GB of memory (due to limitations of
the x86 processors). The 64-bit versions of Vista vary.
(Thanks to
http://spiceminesofkessel.com/2007/1...mory-in-vista/ for
this detailed procedure)
Here is a web site to help you understand and fix the issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912
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