March 25, 2008
Low Virtual Memory
If you have had a Windows XP system for quite some time, you probably have encountered the following error:
Your System Is Low On Virtual Memory
Sometimes your system can fix this issue on its own. If this is your case, you will see the following message:
Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied.
The message above will usually appear right after your Windows XP system starts up. When you select OK on the above message, you might receive the 0xc0000017 error message. This states that an application was unable to start correctly. There are a couple other minor errors that can appear as a result of Windows attempting to increase the size of the virtual memory on your system.
If you have an Aventail Connect on your computer than that is one cause of the error with Low Virtual Memory. An easy fix? Remove Aventail Connect. To do this, start your computer in Safe Mode by pressing F8 during start-up and then select Safe Mode. You can get more support with Aventail Connect at
http://support.aventail.com. Instead of just removing the program you can add it to your SVCHOST.EXE file. This is more complicated, but might work better for you. If you are unsure on how to do this, contact Aventail Connect or Microsoft.
If you do not have Aventail Connect then your issue might be slightly more serious or complicated. You may need to add more RAM or enlarge the size of your paging file. If left untreated, the virtual memory may get so low that you are unable to download anything new, including programs, pictures, files and more. By default, Windows manages your virtual memory but you can manually change its size.
For more information about your Windows XP system requirements you can visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx
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Comments on Low Virtual Memory »
Computer Support @ 3:26 am
Hi.. Krystal..
Can you please provide me with some of the details regarding how to extend the page size or the virtual memory manually rather than letting it to be taken care by the Windows…
Or please post some thg in accordance to that..
Phillip @ 10:07 am
Hello
For setting the page file size in Windows xp you can use the following directions. Remember when altering your page file it should not be larger than 1.5 times the size of the total amount of RAM memory installed in your computer. Making it larger will cause performance problems.
Get inside the System Properties again. Do so by right-clicking one of the My Computer icons that is either in the Start Menu or the desktop and selecting Properties.
Next, click the Advanced tab and click the Settings button under the Performance section.
On the Performance Options window, click the Advanced tab and then click the Change button under the Virtual Memory section.
This will bring up all of the page file settings. Once this information is shown, you will want to modify the custom values so that the initial and maximum sizes are the same. Enter in the value that you calculated in these two boxes. If you have not yet calculated what your size should be, you will find the recommended size on the bottom of this window.
Click the Set button and then click OK three times to close all of the windows and save your settings.
Once you restart, you will be using the new constant size paging file. You are now ready to run your defragmenter to defragment the paging file to ensure optimal performance.
If you are experiencing other performance issues you may wish to use the PC Registry Cleaner program to detect errors in your registry which as well cause performance issues. Addressing these errors will improve performance.
http://www.pcregistrycleaner.com