VIRTUAL MEMORY

Virtual memory is also referred to as the swap file. It exists on the hard drive.

You can set a fixed size for virtual memory from the Performance tab of System properties.

To increase the amount of Virtual Memory, you may need to free up disk space.
Delete files from the C:Windows/Temp and temporary internet files as a starting point.

If you are getting out of memory errors at boot, I suspect 1 of the following:

1. Loading too many programs / drivers at startup for available RAM.
2. A major memory leak.
3. You have a W9X /Me system with more than 511MB of RAM installed.
4. Bad RAM, or corrupt .vxd files.
(Bad RAM can corrupt the .vxd files.)

There is a bug in W9X/Me that can cause Windows to totally ignore the first 512MB or 1GB of installed RAM.
There is NO fix for this bug.

There are 2 work-arounds.
1. Reduce RAM to less than 511MB
2. Add a line to the startup files to set maxmem to 511MB.
(I do not remember which file off the top of my head.)

I limitALL of my W9X boxes to 384MB of RAM.

Chas