windows , virtual memory minimum too low

[momen]

Hi

My os is windows xp home edition on PIV 2.4 , 512 , 512 ram , H disk 80 GB .

during my last virus scan using norton i had this message :

your system is too low on virtual memory , windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file .

during this process , memory requests or some applications may be denied . for more info see help .


well i notice each time i run norton for the full system scan that the computer is too slow and if i check the pc performance through the task manager the cpu usage is 100 % .


i tried this time to open adobe premiere during the system scan but the program crashes .


so is that the reason of this message or there is some thing wrong on my system .


thank u .

 

[jrbarnett]

What size is the paging file set to? The default on XP is 1.5 times the amount of real memory, so in your case it should be 768Mb.

To check the swapfile size, go to start -> right click my computer -> properties -> Advanced -> Performance and the Advanced tab.

John

 

[Bobg1]

What else do you have running at the same time?
If you can clean the system up so you don't have
a ton af garbage running background tasks, you
shouldn't have a problem.

 

[momen]

thank you very much for your answers ..

- ( John ) The size of the paging file is 768 MB as you said .
- ( Bodg1 ) what do u mean with clean the system up ? do u mean using disk clean up or what ?

- i really feel that the machine is too slow for it's configration .. i use a couple of hard softwares like maya and after effect and premiere ... i run this softwares on another machine with less configration and it works fine may be a little bit slower but fine ... do i have to change the os from xp to windows 2000 or NT ?

another question ... my HD is 80 gb but if i check the total capacity of the hd i find it 74.53 gb !! where the rest of the hd space is gone ... about 5 gb !

thank u

 

[bcastner]

Hard disk manufacturers measure disk capacity differently than does the operating system. A user buys a hard disk as a 80GB hard disk, but in the system it is detected as a 74GB hard disk. Two factors are playing their roles here: 1. The business policy says - tell the user simple numbers. Today, this usually means for disks their size in GB divisible by 10. But the reality is often different.
2. 80 000 000 000b = 78 125 000KB = 76 293MB = 74,5GB

For your Norton scan, schedule this for late at night or other periods when you do not have to use the computer.

 

[Bobg1]

By clean it up, I mean
Check to find out what other programs or process's are running in the background and eliminate or reconfigure the system so anything that is not needed is not running. one way to look at this is using task manager. You can also use msconfig to turn off some of the things you don't need.

 

[momen]

- ( Bodg1 ) thank you very much for your help

- ( Bcastner ) thank you very much for this information about the hard disk size it was very helpful for me ... you tell me some thing i didn't know before and i hope that it will be helpful for the others .


Thank you all