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    Virtual memory low! Impossible

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hubertmanouvre, Aug 25, 2008.

  1. hubertmanouvre

    hubertmanouvre Notebook Enthusiast

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    Im furious with my computer...

    Ive bought a dell 1720 and upgraded to xp sp2

    i use it to make music on, but for some reason now that i have xp installed im being told my virtual memory is low...

    I have 3 gb of Ram and plenty of hdd space left so am stumped as to what the problem could be? Its ruining everything, please help

    any help is greatly appreciated

    cheers
     
    hubertmanouvre, Aug 25, 2008
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    Sound like you have a bad application that leaks the memory.
     
    merlin_72032, Aug 25, 2008
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    Bummer, if that is the case is there any way of finding out which app it is?
     
    hubertmanouvre, Aug 25, 2008
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    Check your process manager (ctrl+ald+del on most Windows machines) and see what it says about memory.

    You also want to check your virtual memory settings. Have you changed around your pagefile settings at all? Tweaked them according to any guides? That can often cause you to see these warnings.
     
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    hubertmanouvre Notebook Enthusiast

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    my performance tells me that my cpu usage is around 40% which seems a lot to me as im only on firefox and cubase

    im not sure how i would describe the memory usage
     
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    Are you sure that all you applications are legit? Windows doesn't leak the memory, but other application would. 40% on your CPU seems to indicate that something is running in the background. I can't tell you what it is because I can't see your computer.
     
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    That does sound like a lot. 40% CPU usage is way too much for an otherwise idle system. You should figure out what program that is and kill it.

    Can you not find the Task Manager? It should look like the attached image. Generally ctrl+alt+del will bring that up on Windows XP. You may have to click the "Task Manager" button. The last column is the memory usage.

    It sounds like you have a fair bit of work to get your machine running like it should be.
     

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  8. hubertmanouvre

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    Everything is fully legit, apps VST's the lot.

    when i changed from Vista to XP, it took me a while to find the correct drivers for everything and during this process i installed quite a few that didnt work...

    I didnt uninstall or delete the ones that are not being used, could this have negative effect?

    cheers
     
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    It could be. You may have to uninstall whatever you don't use and see if it changes anything. What is apps VST?
     
    merlin_72032, Aug 25, 2008
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