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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Drew on July 06, 2004, 12:20:05 pm
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I just reformatted my HDD, and reinstaled windows XP and everythings running peachy except my virtual memory. I keep getting these popup alerts from the taskbar that tells me my virtual memory is to low. I set my minimum and maximum paging file to 900 so windows wouldnt swap around with it and slow things down. But when i ctrl-alt-del to get to the taskman, and look at performance, it says 1.00 GB of paging file is being used :confused: Its really slowing things down.
Maybe some of you smart ppl could help me figure out whats going on or how to make it better
Its a pos gateway
WinXP
2.0GHz P4
256 DDR
Intel 82801 or somthing somthing mobo
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There's probably a memory leak somewhere.
Open up task manager > processes > view > select columns > make sure memory usage and virtual memory size are checked > now check which processes use the most memory and vm.
And by the way, WXP will use some virtual memory even if you disable it alltogether.
Personally I have gotten these messages only when some files have caused explorer.exe to leak memory or some program leaks it. Or in a few occasions a game which simply eats up a lot of memory.
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the big uses are svhost.exe and that has somthig to do with the internet and networks, and IEXPLORER.exe but they use about 25 megs combined, not the 1 GB i was talking about.....
ill keep looking
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"svhost.exe"? Are you sure it is not "svchost.exe"?
svchost.exe is a genuine Windows XP process but svhost.exe is a trojan or something.
Edit: Make sure you have "show processes from all users" enabled.
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I had this problem a couple of months ago. I was never able to figure out what caused it, since all the processes in the taskmanager didn't look like anything extraordinary. After I reformatted my machine and re-installed WinXP (just the clean version, no bells or whistles), it seemed to work fine.