What is Virtual Memory?

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suject virtual memory hope i can express myself will enough. well on this lets say i have 60 rams of memory when i shut down from cleaning up process then when i come back on the rams says 54 what is happening; what can i do to help this stop and is there any thing i do to clean out my rams or virtual memory; how can i bring up the virtual memory to read it to remove any thing i want to remove could there still be some old vireus's that are in the hard drive that didnot real get removed that got hidden from me or could i of not reconizied the vireus's couse of the way they where written out in the files how do u pull up these files; how do i pull up files written to hard drive so i can remove; is there any thing i can do to keep my rams up at ia high level is there a way to permently save data on pc's without it missing up memory. is there a way to save it as not to lose it? please e-mail me to answer me

Use a tool like procexp from sysinternals (http://ask-leo.com/d-31017a ) and use it to see who is using memory, how much, and then watch to see how it changes over time.

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I keep on getting an error saying that my virtual memory is too low. But I checked the space that is left on my C drive and it's saying that I have plenty of free space. I have a laptop computer. Do I need to buy more memory for it? And if so, how would I install it?

please help!

thanks

What version of WIndows are you running? The size of virtual memory is typically just a setting we can change.

Leo, I am operating the windows 2000, and last week got DSL, and it was a lot faster for a few days, now as I did before but not as much am getting the message YOUR VIRTUAL MEMORY IS LOW,this is happening quite often. My computer has also slowed, and it seems I am running dial-up again, what do I need to do about this problem?
Thanks for your help- carl

leo, how can i create space in memory and store the content of my pc into that without consuming much space in hard disk for BACKUP purpose. something like creating virtual memory in hard disk.

Thank you

I'm sorry Manish, but I don't understand your question.

Leo, please can u tell me how can i restore back or increase my virtual memory and i have try everythings and nothing works, please can u help me, thanks.

what must I do to increase my sytem's virtual memory ? My operating system is Windows 2000 Professional.thank you in advance.

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