[Drew]

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  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

[Fury]

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.

[Drew]

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

[Fury]

"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.

[Kosh]

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.