We are frequently working while watching to video or operation additional application to save time. Run application at the same time can cause computer out of memory. We often find that computers show a message what is called the "low memory” or “Virtual Memory Low” Where the remaining memory ability is low.

Occasionally we are adding a RAM to computer for solves this problem. But it is not a good solution because besides we need to deal with a hardware we need to spend some money to buy the new RAM.

 

Here are other ways that can we do is build a Virtual Memory, in which the operating system will assign part of the contents of our hard drive to become extra memory to computer. Allocation of part of the contents of our hard drive is called Paging File.


Here are the steps to increase Virtual Memory on our computer:


1. Right Click on  My Computer. Now “System Properties” window is appears


2. Click the tab “Advance” and then on box “performance”, Click “setting” now “Performance Options” window is appears.


3. On the “Performance options” window, choose the tab “Advanced”, like the screenshot below.

 

4. Then on the box “Virtual Memory”, Click “Change”, then will appear the list of disks in our computers, like screenshot below.


5. Then choose on of the drive for the place of the Virtual Memory that we will create. Choose the different drive with the system drive location. Then click on the “Custom Size”.

6. Insert a value in the Initial size and Maximum size in MB. As a guideline, for the Initial size value, RAM capacity is multiplied by 1.5. As for the value of Maximum size, RAM capacity multiplied by 3. For instance, our RAM capacity is 512MB, so the value on the Initial size is 756MB, for maximum size is 1512MB.

7. Make sure it still has a free space on hard disk to accommodate Virtual Memory that we create.

8. Then click OK, then OK, and OK again.


9. Done, and then make sure our computer performance become improved or speed if compared before.



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