Virtual Memory is Low, or Full.

Question from Anonymous;

My computer shows that my virtual memory is low. How do increase my virtual memory on a Windows XP Home? Thanks.

First I would like to give you a brief description of what virtual memory is.
Simply put, virtual memory is just a file folder that's used as RAM by your computer. The only difference between virtual memory and a regular folder, is the virtual memory file size can manually adjusted. This is unlike regular RAM, where you have to purchase larger modules to increase the size. Virtual memory is also referred to as a page file.

The following directions refer to IE5, IE6, and IE7.
Let's begin by emptying the virtual memory file.

Open your Web browser,>C tools>C Internet options>T General
In IE5,and IE6>C Delete Cookies>C Delete temporary Internet files, in the new window that opens up, Put a check mark in the box (delete off line content).>C yes

In IE7>C Delete (in Browser history),In the new window that opens>C Delete all, In the next window that opens up put a check in the box>C yes.

That's it you have dumped your page file, Your virtual Memory is now empty.

Now that you have done it the Microsoft way, lets do it the easy way...

In the right hand column you will see a link to CCleaner, down load & install this program. During the installation of this programmed it will ask you if you want to install Yahoo tool bar, this is not something you need if you don't use Yahoo. Once the program is installed you'll see the CCleaner desktop icon, click on this. When the program is up and running, you will see in the upper left-hand corner a picture of a paintbrush click here once to highlight this, now in the bottom of the window you will see a button that says analyze click here. This will track down the accumulated Internet clutter and old cookies that are stored on your system. Once the analyze is complete, click run cleaner, that's it you're done! Run this program once a week, and you will never see that annoying window pop up saying low on virtual memory!