virtual memory

February 17, 2010 Window 7 computers consume nearly all RAM; less than half of the XP PCs do, which results in performance bottlenecks. According to data from "Devil Mountain Software" Craig Barth- Chief Technical Officer. 86% of the Windows 7 computers in his XP Net Pool are regularly...

I had recently installed Win 7 Ultimate x64. I found that the cd drive would not read DVD DL. I tried all methods(incl all KB articles) and finally decided to go back to x32 hoping that the change would cure it. No chance. It reads all other types of DVD ok and writes too. I have tried several...

Hello there everyone! Windows 7 has been great..... BUT .... I'm having some serious freezing problems with it. I have tried just about everything! -Swapped out GPU's .... Nvidia GTS 250 and an ATI card... most current drivers everything... still froze. -Tested both of my RAM sticks (XMS2...

Okay, I know there's already a forum for this, but I need to know what needs to be done with my computer alone to better understand how to fix this problem. I just upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit from Windows Vista 64 bit. Ever since I upgraded, my computer will randomly lock up. It...

I am running windows 7 64 bit home edition. System restore is not working. When I clicked on it, I had no restore points. When I create one manually, It says it created it, but then I close out and go back, and it is gone. Once today, it created one and kept it for an hour or so, but then it...

Hi there all, this is my first post and I an new to this kind of forum! I am kind of forced to ask for help as I have no way of finding my answer through using Google, as this seems a bit complicated. Basically my lecturer asked me 5 questions, 3 I think I figured out the other two I need clues...

i installed it last night and i had a directx audio error, so i went on MS site and got directx 9 and installed it, got rid of that error.. but now the game wont even load. i start the game and open task manger and it shows it runnin, but after a few minutes it will go away, like it crashed...

Hey guys, I have recently experienced a couple of visit from our old friend and this comes even after a clean new installation of W7. Strange thing about it is that's not related to using a particular program everytime for flashing the BSOD. I noticed that some of the times was while using...

Every time I boot up I get a paging file error message. I have tried to set the memory allocation about 5 times. The next time I boot I et the same message and the memory allocations I had set are gone. Everything is back to zero. Any one know what I can do to fix this? dufferpaul75

After upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista, I keep getting unexpected reboots from the following: Event ID: 1001, The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000009f (0x0000000000000003, 0xfffffa80043aa060, 0xfffff80000b9c518, 0xfffffa800511f580). A dump was saved in...

Win7 doesn't reconize my Nvidia GeForce Go 6800, instead it just used the onboard vga, (everything was sooo big) I downloaded win7 drivers from Nvidia and it still couldnt find my card, I had it search for new hardware, even had someone try to help with remote assistance. On the win7 combat...

I've looked on a lot of other posts for the past few days and still can't seem to find a problem exactly like mine or a fix that works so heres my post. I have a TRENDnet tew-623PI wireless adapter to start. The issue is i will get random bouts of violent lag for 2-10 mins for which i lose...

I am trying to upgrade my son's laptop from Vista to Windows 7. My son's computer is a Toshiba Qosmio and I ran the Toshiba Upgrade Tool with no problems. The problem I have now is that the virtual memory service is not starting so when I start the install of windows 7, I get the error "windows...

Hello . . I have recently clean installed Windows 7 32 and it is indicating 1gb of installed physical memory when it should be 2gb. My previous installation of Vista showed it correctly. Anyone know what can be done to fix this? OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7600...

This process is constantly accessing and writing to my HD. It will write to the NTFS: Free Space, volume log and MFT. Is this normal activity? I am running Win 7 on a Lenovo X61 Tablet PC. OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600 Other OS Description...

Heyo forum-goers, what I am trying to do is sort of complicated but I'll try my best to explain it. Basically I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of potential out of my nearly outdated machine. First, my relevant system specs: - Windows 7 Pro 64bit - 2 IDE Hard drives - 5400rpm 80GB Maxtor, and...

I have been running into an issue lately with the following symptoms: -I get a low memory error message frequently even though I am not anywhere near using all my RAM. Typically I will have 1.3-1.5GB allocated and my system has 2GB of RAM. -Initially after bootup in the task manager my...

Okay, so I was trying to 'tweak' my laptop (HP DV7-1130us) which was recently upgraded to windows 7 home premium. I went into System Properties > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Virtual Memory There, stupidly, I tried to maximize my memory speed and set a custom paging allocation of Minimum...

Hi everyone! I'm having some real issues getting Windows 7 to run on my computer. I managed to half solve one, but the torment continues and I haven't really got any idea why. Background: Clean install of W7 from download, followed by DVD, on a PC which was running XP Home perfectly: Intel...

I upgraded from Vista 64 to Windows 7 Home Premium 64, and I'm having some major issues. My control panel is completely borked. If, for instance, I load up control panel and on to uninstall a program, control panel will freeze and become unresponsive. Sometimes this results in explorer crashing...