I have about 528MB of RAM and running XP. should I turn off the virtual mem? or create more or less? XP takes about a 45 secs accessing my HD, doing who knows what, after I logged in to be able to run applications. I have a question about Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

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The other info is good, but I also turn off my system restore (look it up in Help) as it spends time and resources keeping the current state in case you do a "oops". I personally would rather reload (of course I'm careful about what I do to my system) than put up with the constant day-to-day drain on efficiency. Good Luck


On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 7:50 am, yoshi wrote:
>I have about 528MB of RAM and running XP. should I turn off the virtual mem? or create
>more or less?
>XP takes about a 45 secs accessing my HD, doing who knows what, after I logged in
>to be able to run applications.
>
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

>
>

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I personally would not turn off Virtual Memory. If you have enough RAM available for all Tasks to run on RAM alone then whether or not you have a Virt Mem file or not it will never need to overflow into the Vmem file. in the case where 528mb isnt quite enough you always need to have the ability to have a Vmem file to dump onto. but this is just my opinion. Hope It might help


On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 7:50 am, yoshi wrote:
>I have about 528MB of RAM and running XP. should I turn off the virtual mem? or create
>more or less?
>XP takes about a 45 secs accessing my HD, doing who knows what, after I logged in
>to be able to run applications.
>
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

>
>

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It sounds like you have plenty of Ram, VMM or vertual memory is set up for those 
who do not have enough or are accessing allot of programs ayt once.
It might be in your best interest after deactivating it completly to look into how 
much cache you system is running or getting a windows tweak package if the problem 
persists.






On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 7:50 am, yoshi wrote:
>I have about 528MB of RAM and running XP. should I turn off the virtual mem? or 
create 
>more or less?
>XP takes about a 45 secs accessing my HD, doing who knows what, after I logged in 
>to be able to run applications.
>
>I have a question about Stop 
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

>
>

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On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 7:50 am, yoshi wrote: It is recommended that you should turn the Virtual mem off if you have more than 512MB. I am confused that how did you make up of 528MB memory normally. Anyway, in my opinion, I hate xp reading my harddrive constantly "without my permission", just turn it off. Would anyone promise me that Winxp will NOT access the virtual memory while there is enough RAM available? Better be more professional answer. I have been thinking for long about greedy CPU companies increasing their frequency without thinking any other devices. I was in a dream that someone manufactures a storage device formed by gigabytes of SDRAM/DDRs. Imagine how fast it is to startup OS in a RAM drive, even on Celeron XXXMhz. Stupid HDDs are slow and noisy (except 5400rpm tortoise), even RAID0. Minutes of starting up is NOT ACCEPTABLE!!! The definition of FAST here should be at most 10s of starting up time and computer should totally SHUT UP! No fans, no hdd noises... after coming down, I say, please turn the virtual mem off by increasing your mem up to 1Gbytes.
>I have about 528MB of RAM and running XP. should I turn off the virtual mem? or create
>more or less?
>XP takes about a 45 secs accessing my HD, doing who knows what, after I logged in
>to be able to run applications.
>
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:

>
>

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So are you saying that it's "System Restore" that uses all the resources on my system for several minutes at a time, each day? I'm having this problem where my hard drive light is on steadily for several minutes, and the computer bogs down to a crawl. I'm running 1.8 GHz AMD with approx 1 gig of ram. There is no internet, or network activity when this is going on. It's just inside the box. So, if I turn off System Restore, this will cease? Microsoft doesn't even address this in their knowledge base, as far as I can see. Not surprising. Actually, if I were sure of what it was, I would feel better. I'm always concerned that it's some sort of "bot", or worm, or something.


On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 8:48 am, bob blaze wrote:
>The other info is good, but I also turn off my system restore (look it up in Help)
>as it spends time and resources keeping the current state in case you do a "oops".
> I personally would rather reload (of course I'm careful about what I do to my system)
>than put up with the constant day-to-day drain on efficiency.
>
>Good Luck
>
>

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For reference to the "Virtual" memory, I strongly suggest not disabling it on one fact, that there are a lot of applications that actually rely on virtual memory to function, one being Photoshop for example, but if you think none of your programs actually access it then you are safe to do so. Virtual memory like someone mentioned previous is only accessed when needed by windows or other applications.


On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 1:38 pm, Cole wrote:
>So are you saying that it's "System Restore" that uses all the resources on my system
>for several minutes at a time, each day? I'm having this problem where my hard drive
>light is on steadily for several minutes, and the computer bogs down to a crawl.
> I'm running 1.8 GHz AMD with approx 1 gig of ram. There is no internet, or network
>activity when this is going on. It's just inside the box. So, if I turn off System
>Restore, this will cease? Microsoft doesn't even address this in their knowledge
>base, as far as I can see. Not surprising. Actually, if I were sure of what it
>was, I would feel better. I'm always concerned that it's some sort of "bot", or
>worm, or something.
>
>

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Wow, talk about a blast from the past! It's the system idle process that is running. I guess it's doing maintenance, and I have a ton of files and diskspace. It's just annoying. Maybe I should go to Annoyances.org! Oh. never mind.


On Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 12:10 am, Neo wrote:
>For reference to the "Virtual" memory, I strongly suggest not disabling it on one
>fact, that there are a lot of applications that actually rely on virtual memory to
>function, one being Photoshop for example, but if you think none of your programs
>actually access it then you are safe to do so. Virtual memory like someone mentioned
>previous is only accessed when needed by windows or other applications.
>
>
>

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