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Ok heres the stats,
Sony Vaio - PCG-Z600LEK (Laptop)
Windows 2000 professional
64mb Ram
12 gb partitioned into 2
no cd drive OR floppy,
Network card, so has access to broadband.

yeah I know, not exactly a fast machine, but it only cost me 300euro so I am not complaining.

Its for my wife, all she wanted it for was reading ebooks and doing study, and writing emails and surfing web. which she can do....

...problem and it is annoying, is that the Virtual memory paging file is too small, not we changed it a little to 50-300, but alas it still said it was too small....

Help!!:rolleyes:

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Practical, focused steps to stop the “virtual memory too small” warnings and make paging more reliable.

As suggested, placing the pagefile on the drive/partition with the most free contiguous space is a sensible first move. Important note: moving a pagefile between partitions on the same physical disk usually only gives room for a bigger file — it does not improve paging I/O. For best stability, create a fixed-size pagefile (set Initial = Maximum) so Windows does not repeatedly resize and fragment it.

How to change the paging file in Windows 2000: right-click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced tab -> Performance -> Settings -> Advanced tab -> Virtual memory -> Change. Select the drive, choose Custom size, enter the same Initial and Maximum values, click Set, then OK and reboot to apply.

Sizing and follow-up actions: use roughly 1.5x physical RAM as a baseline; very low-memory systems sometimes need 2x to avoid warnings. Before allocating a large fixed file, run Disk Defragmenter to free a large contiguous block, or use Sysinternals Contig to defragment the pagefile after creation Contig. Check Task Manager for memory-hungry processes and stop unnecessary services. If the system still warns, confirm the target volume is not compressed/encrypted and has truly free space.

Long-term fixes: increasing physical RAM gives far better responsiveness than relying on the pagefile. For deeper reading on how Windows manages virtual memory, see Microsoft’s documentation .

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you say you have 2 partitions ,what partition has the most free space ,change the location of the paging file to the partion with the most free space and make it bigger

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Thank you, I will give that a go and see what happens..

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