Computer help; Virtual Memory?

[neumanns]

Long story short I wiped the computer and decided to install more current programs, One I came across that seems like a nice program is the free version of Adobe Photoshop Album. Seems like a real straightforward and simple program...I like it on the serface. However I am unable to manipulate photos due to a shortage of virtual memory. I apperantly have 32-Bit Virtual memory and need more to run the program. Heres my question:<br /><br />I have never heard of virtual memory, is it a hardware upgrade, simular to RAM etc or is it more complex like motherboard stuff, perhaps it is not even upgradable or even a program issue? If the price is reasonable I am not affraid to install things in the tower but this is a new one on me.<br /><br />How can I even check if it is upgradable? If your curios abot the reformat and wipe it was due to the About;blank trojan...Just seamed easier to wipe as it had been a long time anyways since I had cleaned the computer up good.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Computer help; Virtual Memory?

Control Panel<br />System<br />Performance Tab<br /><br />That is where you can adjust it. Self explanatory.<br /><br />On occassion I have had some memory issues and had to completely shut down some programs and start my computer in a cleaner mode.

 

[neumanns]

Re: Computer help; Virtual Memory?

Currently I am letting my computer control virtual memory it's settings are 0mb minimum to 130,000mb maximum. What little I could find on adobe's site said I should manually control it with a min and max available of twice what the RAM is. I tried this and it made no diffrence so I went back to computer controlled. <br /><br />If it sounds like I know what I am doing this is completly by accident, I do not have a clue! could my limitations be caused by the 32 bit portion of the equation? as having 130k mb of memory available should be enoufgh to run ANYTHING!!! Also my system resources are 60 some odd percent free.

 

[Rudderman]

Re: Computer help; Virtual Memory?

In my experience, error messages relating to "memory" are usually not got to do with memory at all. They're usually to do with faulty or incompatible software.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Computer help; Virtual Memory?

No expert here, but if you only have 60% resources free, it sounds like you have too much open. How many things do you have in your startup tray? Also I had a virtual memory problem when I had a virus. Be sure to run trend micro, spybot and adaware<br /><br />Your minimum virtual memory should be at 1.5 times RAM and your maximum should be set at 3 times RAM. At least that is the way it is set on my XP machine.

 

[rwise]

Re: Computer help; Virtual Memory?

Could also be not enuf (enough) ram, ram is not that high (last time I checked) if your not at about 512 meg you maight try adding more (may need to change rather than add), just a thought.

 

[Stumpys]

Re: Computer help; Virtual Memory?

What is Virtual Memory?<br />Most computers today have something like 64 or 128 megabytes of RAM available for the CPU to use. Unfortunately, that amount of RAM is not enough to run all of the programs that most users expect to run at once. <br />For example, if you load the operating system, an e-mail program, a Web browser and word processor into RAM simultaneously, 64 megabytes is not enough to hold it all. If there were no such thing as virtual memory, then once you filled up the available RAM your computer would have to say, "Sorry, you can not load any more applications. Please close another application to load a new one." With virtual memory, what the computer can do is look at RAM for areas that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application.