Friday, November 25, 2011

Tips to Fix Computer Running out of Memory?

When you run multiple copies of Windows based applications, out of memory error message appear when you try to run new programs or attempt to execute programs that are already running, even though your computer sill have sufficient physical and pagefile memory available. Or it may possible due to low virutual memory situtaion.

So question arises how to fix computer experiencing low memory issue. Here is the solution but for that you need to understand the concept of virtual memory.

Virtual memory is a kind of temporary storage used by a computer to run programs that need more memory than it has. For instance, programs could have access to 4 gigabytes of virtual memory on a computer's hard drive, even if the computer has only 32 megabytes of RAM. The program data that does not currently fit in the computer's memory is saved into paging files.

Step by step how to fix a computer running low memory:

STEP 1. Open Computer Management (Local).
STEP 2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then select Properties.
STEP 3. On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, and under Virtual memory, click Change.
STEP 4. In the Drive list, click the drive that contains the paging file.

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