Hi Doris,
Yes, I do have an additional internal drive D. I do not have the
luxury of having someone here to help me set up that drive for
virtual memory. Your warning is enough for me not to do anything.
My computer support is my daughter and she is over 3 hours from here
and she is very busy with her job. For that reason, she does not come
here very often.
I don't know if she can help me over the phone, but for now, I just
deal with it as it is.
Thanks for your suggestions. I will keep this information should I
use my D drive for virtual memory in the future. Unfortunately, the
drive already has two partitions with a lot of MP3 files in both
partitions and I don't think that I want to repartition it just to
have a third one for paging for fear of messing up all my files.
In the meantime, I will try to keep my system free of clutter when I
listen to the football game on it. I do run CCleaner at least once a
week and I was told to go into Internet Explorer and remove all
temporary files and history. I will see how it goes when my team
plays again on the 15th of October.
Again, thanks for your help. I really do appreciate your suggestions.
Take care.
Lennie
At 08:13 PM 10/3/2011, you wrote:
Do you have a second internal hd in your box?
You can manually set the size of the swap file (virtual memory); the
recommended size is 1.5 times the amount of hardware RAM in your
system. however, this is a setting you should only takcle if you are
comfotable doing so and also know what you are doing. *g* If you
set this up wrong, your box might not boot anymore and that's
something to be avoided. So maybe you have a computer geeky friend
to walk you thru the steps the first time. Once you know your way
aroudn the settings and get comfrotable with it, this is not
difficult at all and i have manually been configuring my swap file
for more than 10 years and going back to win 9x..
If you have a second physical hard drive in your box (an internal
not an external drive) you can further speed up your system by
putting most of your virtual memory on the second drive, preferably
on a partition of its own so the page file does not become
fragmented. Again, though, this is something you want to be sure you
know what you are doing so that you don't accidentally render your
box inoperational.
If having the page file on a 2nd drive is not an option, there are
utilities out there that will defrag system files - and the page
file (virtual menory is such a system file) during bootup as they
cannot be accessed and defragged during regular windows operation
because they are in use then.
There are several good defrag programs available that have the
option of defragging system files at bootup. I like open source and
free and am using "ultradefrag" for this . And to get this back on
course *g*, "Ultradefrag" does work quite nicely with jaws. *smile*
Before changing settings, though, make sure your computer is running
at its best being properly maintained with regular spyware checks,
not running unnecessary programs and services in the
background, being defragged regularly, etc. and if you do decide
to monkey around with your virtual menory settings, be really
careful, create a restore point before you do, and preferably have
someone walk you thru the steps in the beginning. This said, I
monkeyed for myself but I have the luxury of having a fully sighted
hubby who saves my butt every now and then when I get in trouble. *g*
Good luck and safe computing!
Doris
At 07:47 PM 10/3/2011 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Trouble,
Here is what I have for my C drive:
Type: Local Disk
File system: NTFS
Used space: 52,663,865,344 bytes 49.0 GB
Free space: 67,301,842,944 bytes 62.6 GB
Capacity: 119,965,708,288 bytes 111 GB
With that many free space, do you think that I can increase the
virtual memory and doing so would it prevent the message from
appearing again? Here is what I found in performance under systen
in the control panel:
Virtual Memory
Drive [Volume Label] Paging File Size (MB)
C: 3072 - 3072
Paging file size for selected drive
Drive: C:
Space available: 67255 MB
I am aware that I cannot use anymore ram on my XP computer.
Thanks for any suggestions. It will be greatly be appreciated.
Take care.
Lennie
At 08:15 PM 10/2/2011, you wrote:
With 3 gig of ram you really can't add any more that xp will use.
Besides of cleaning out some on the task tray. You can also make
sure you have no programs in the background like virus, spyware,
backup, or defragger running. Another thing you can look at is how
much you have left on the c:drive. If you get low on space you can
see those kinds of messages.
At 05:32 PM 10/2/2011, you wrote:
Hi,
I am using windows XP with 3 GB ram with latest Jaws 12.
I was listening live to a NFL football game today on my computer
when I heard a sound, but it didn't sound like the sound you
get with a fatal error.
I lost Jaws and my wife told me that the screen stated a message
low on virtual memory. She closed the screen and after that I got
another message something to do with bector and Internet explorer
8 for which I have no idea what that means.
I don't recall any other problems with IE8 and I had only the
home page of the radio station and a second page for the audio
opened. For what it is worth, here is the URL of the radio
station. When I got the page, I pressed enter on listen live.
http://www.espn980.com/
Does anyone have any idea what caused the error and what should I
do? Even after my wife got me back to the desktop, Jaws was
stilll not talking. So, I aborted Jaws (insert key+Windows
key+F4) and use the shortcut key to bring back Jaws.
Any help and suggestions will greatly be appreciated. Take care.
Lennie
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