It's only been up recently, today to be exact... I've been doing the same things on this computer and it seems are that all of a sudden it should come up. I've ran ccleaner and some antivirus, yet it persists. I'm sure I have enough ram(1G) to handle normal routine such as browsing internet on firefox, yet sometimes my firefox freezes and takes about 10 seconds to unstuck, it's quite painful.
Any advise I should take?

Scooter

United States747 Posts

December 28 2008 11:50 GMT

How much hard drive space do you have left? I remember having a virtual memory problem around 9 years ago when I was trying to play Final Fantasy VII on my computer (oh gawd) but I only had a few megabytes of space left on my HD and I was getting that same problem.

evanthebouncy!

United States12816 Posts

December 28 2008 11:56 GMT

I have 2G free on C, which is the one it could use, I'm trying to give some of my D to use for the virtual memory, but I am unable to do so...

evanthebouncy!

United States12816 Posts

December 28 2008 12:01 GMT

I try to change the settings in
Performance Options - Advanced
Virtual Memory
-Initial size [_input_]

I try to change my input to 2000 for my harddrive partition D(in addition to C), but it's not working.

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3612 Posts

December 28 2008 12:02 GMT

sounds like either 1) your RAM is bad or 2) you have some misbehaving programs that are hogging your RAM *points at firefox*

Manifesto7

Osaka27179 Posts

December 28 2008 12:26 GMT

I had this problem for a long time. go into task manager and look at what processes are using the most memory. i bet it is svchost.exe

humblegar

Norway883 Posts

December 28 2008 13:27 GMT

If you are running XP and just surfing you have to work hard to get above 1GB, start->run "msconfig" and take a look at your startup. Uncheck things you don't need. then run "msconfig /auto" to remove the annoying message if you did uncheck some items. The best solution is of course to uninstall or change preferences in programs to remove them from the list completely.

For virtual memory:
- set it fixed to 0 for max and min
- reboot
- defrag the drive (normally the same as your sys drive)
- set it to the same fixed size both for min and max (2000MB should be fine), this way it won't get fragmented.
- reboot

* You need actual free space on your drive to do this. Defrag will require some free space unless you force it, and drives generally don't work well when nearly full.

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

December 28 2008 13:44 GMT

Use Opera

SonuvBob

Aiur21552 Posts

December 28 2008 17:35 GMT

On December 28 2008 20:48 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Any advise I should take?

Treat TL's computer advice like you'd treat its medical advice.

Repertoire

Canada92 Posts

December 28 2008 17:47 GMT

#10

On December 29 2008 02:35 SonuvBob wrote:

Show nested quote +

Treat TL's computer advice like you'd treat its medical advice.

What are you talking about? everyone on Tl either has a certified computer certificate or a phd.

Shauni

4077 Posts

December 28 2008 17:48 GMT

#11

On December 28 2008 22:44 writer22816 wrote:
Use Opera

Opera running at 126,512 k memory usage at this moment for me and I only have like 10 tabs... It's a slow ass browser.

betaben

681 Posts

December 28 2008 18:44 GMT

#12

Firefox does this with me too. most often though, it happens when another program i'm using is accessing my hard drive a lot. I think this is because firefox uses the virtual memory which is on the hard drive. This might not be the reason though. I use a mac, so this sounds like a firefox problem. bloody annoying, though.

FreeZEternal

Korea (South)3396 Posts

December 28 2008 20:14 GMT

#13

Increase your virtual memory size and move it to another drive since your C drive is almost full. Virtual memory is not RAM.

EmeraldSparks

United States1451 Posts

December 28 2008 20:41 GMT

#14

My hard drive has been fucked up lately and FF for some reason doesn't work very well.

But Chrome runs smoothly.

I have no idea why but you could try it.

Yogurt

United States4258 Posts

December 28 2008 22:12 GMT

#15

delete some stuff, and close some processes

ramen247

United States1256 Posts

December 28 2008 22:17 GMT

#16

if you want a good and permanent fix, buy RAM, since you cant download it.

to fix this problem without spending money, clean up your HDD dude. 2gb free space is a joke and its asking for slow comp performance.

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

December 29 2008 00:45 GMT

#17

On December 28 2008 21:01 evanthebouncy! wrote:
I try to change the settings in
Performance Options - Advanced
Virtual Memory
-Initial size [_input_]

I try to change my input to 2000 for my harddrive partition D(in addition to C), but it's not working.

Dude you need to click the "设置(S)" button after you enter your desired amount, then click OK. I believe in English it's "Set".