re: Totaly Confused Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by William (135 messages posted) Perhaps an oversimplification, but virtual memory simply means when your physical memory (installed modules) is low due to program(s) running then virtual memory temporarily kicks in and steals from your hard drive. A general rule of thumb is to set minimum to 1.5 times the amount of Ram installed (i.e. 1024 Mb for 512 Mb Ram installed. Set in Paging File Size box. Actually it is rare you need to do this unless you have minimal Ram installed and you frequently run Ram intensive programs. Hope that is understandable. Written in response to: Totaly Confused (Carol: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:55 am) Responses to this message: re: Totaly Confused (Mark: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 8:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Totaly Confused (Carol: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 3:55 am) re: Totaly Confused (William: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 4:41 am) re: Totaly Confused (Mark: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 8:09 am) re: Totaly Confused (Carol: Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 4:03 am) re: Totaly Confused (Mark: Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 6:16 am) re: Totaly Confused (Ricer46: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 5:37 am) re: Totaly Confused (Carol: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 4:00 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum