Virtual Memory: How do I adjust Virtual Memory settings?

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I am using a computer that operates on Windows 2000 Professional. My quest is whether to try out the advice and steps provided for computers that do not have the same type of windows as mine eg. windows XP etc. on increasing virtual memory.
Grateful if you could send in simple advice, in fact, advice that is comparable to your article which is quite easy to follow.
Your help will be appreciated.

i am the engr to a very big cafe, i just changed all the operating sys on all our sys to win 2000 ands the problem since them has being our systems are slow and always freezing then when booting it comes up with the message your system is low on virtual memory windows is trying to increase your virtual memory during this memory requirements for some of your application may be denied what can i do?

Most of the advice given for WIndows XP applies to Windows 2000. Windows XP is really just "the next version" of WIndows 2000 (like Windows Vista will be the next version of Windows XP). Naturally there are differences, but in general if the settings, such as virtual memory, appear to be in the same place using the same wording, then chances are the same concepts will apply. It's certainly a good place to start.

Thy this:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;837869

i have a celeron 2.8ghz cpu and 192mbs of ram on my pc i keep getting virtual memory problems.i also have system mechanic and it is always giving me poor readings on my ram its dropping as low as 30mb. everytime i defrag it it just keeps dropping all the time back to 30mbs. can you please help do i have dodgy ram or something

Defrag has nothing to do with memory or with disk space - defrag is about keeping your hard disk performing well.

I'd have to know what you mean by "I keep getting virual memory problems". What problems? What are you doing when they happen?

I have been trying to increase my custom size Virtual Memory via Systems Properties, Peformance Options, Advanced, Change (this is Windows XP Home)as it currently shows 767mb. I alter Initial Size ot 1200, Maximun size to 2400 and hit Set, nothning happens (mostly). I have had it change to give me Currently Alocated 1200 and then I can use the leisure software which requires at least 768mb, next time I boot up its back at 767mb and mostly I can't get it to increase at all. Any suggestions?

I just went to www.fastr-pc.net to download the program designed to speed my virtual memory up...naturally the "free" version was unable to fix the problem but apparently if I buy the "registered version" all the problems can be fixed...great website....

I'm always VERY skeptical of these types of tools ... please report back after you've run it to let us know if it actually did anything. Many do not.

I can only hope that this answer hasn't been mentioned already, and I forgot where I found it in the first place, but it works GREAT.

1. Do you have any junk hard drives laying around? Even two gigs and 5400 revolutions will do--install the sucker as a secondary. If you increase the virtual memory on the same disk as the OS, you are simply causing the resources for the single disk to work twice as hard, partitioned or not.
2. THEN go to 'Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance Settings>Advanced>Virtual Memory--then press Change.
3. Keep C:/ highlighted, and mark 'no Pagefile'. Then hit 'Set'.
4. Now, highlight D:/ right below it (or whatever your cheap-ass old drive is lettered), select 'Custom Size', and enter two numbers: One for Initial Size, another for Maximum Size. these (for some absurd reason) seem to work better if they're in increments of 256, 512, etc. Fill it up, with the low number being 2/3rds of the high. mebbe leave a little room on the disk for back-up. Hit set again, and restart I'm at 1536, with a max of 2048, running all the Adobe CS2 software on a crappy five year old Compaq 1.3 GHZ Socket 370 POS, with the max memory of 512 installed, and it never hangs anymore. It runs like it has at least a Gig of memory installed.

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