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"Your system is low on virtual memory"

Nowadays most of us have to spend carefully.

Upgrading your computer or laptop's memory (RAM)  can be an economic way of getting more out of your machine.

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 Find out now how you can upgrade the memory(RAM) in your machine

 hard drive memory vs random access memory(RAM)

RAM is like short term memory. The computer uses it now to do immediate tks.

Hard Drive is like long term memory it is stored on a disk for use at any time in the future.

we humans use short term memory for tks like dialling a phone number and long term memory to remember the way home!  

  click here to see a few of definitons of RAM.
click here for definitions of computer memory  

What is virtual memory?

If your computer is low on RAM,  Windows will use virtual memory to make up the shortfall. Then you get the annoying message and your computer runs slower.

Virtual memory combines your computer’s RAM with temporary space on your hard disk. When RAM runs low, virtual memory moves data from RAM to a space called a paging file. Sort of like a holding bay; this temporarily frees RAM to complete it's tk.

RAM is much fter than Virtual memory...so do think about getting much RAM into your computer you can to get the best performance.

"The more RAM your computer h, the fter your programs will generally run. If a lack of RAM is slowing your computer, you might be tempted to incree virtual memory to compensate. However, your computer can read data from RAM much more quickly than from a hard disk, so adding RAM is a better solution."

 If you get "Your system is low on virtual memory"  …..windows will automatically incree the size of the paging file and create virtual memory so that your computer can run the program. You can change the size of the paging file yourself click