How To Increase Virtual Memory Usage
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    • How to Increase Virtual Memory Usage

    Vikrant Shukla

    Project Lead in an IT Organisation
    The virtual memory is a disk space reserved on a computer hard drive that may be used as the extension of the random access memory (RAM). Windows operating system utilizes the virtual memory storage if running applications exceed the physical size of RAM. The increase of the virtual memory usage is achieved by increasing the allowed size of the corresponding system file ("pagefile").

    Instructions
    1. Step1

      Log in to an administrator account in Windows Vista and click "Start."

    2. Step2

      Click "Control Panel" and then choose "System and Maintenance."

    3. Step3

      Click "System" and select "Advanced system settings" on the left panel.

    4. Step4

      Select the tab "Advanced" and click "Settings" in the field "Performance."

    5. Step5

      Select the tab "Advanced" again and read the current size of the virtual memory in the field "Virtual memory." For example, "Total paging file size for all drives: 2096 Mb."

    6. Step6

      Click "Change" and uncheck the box "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives." Select the radiobutton "Custom size."

    7. Step7

      Type the desired virtually memory size (in Megabytes) in the fields "Initial size" and "Maximum size." Enter the same amount of memory in both fields to increase the system performance.

    8. Step8

      Click "OK." When prompted click "Yes" to restart the computer.
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