Hi All,
I have a Dell Inspiron 4100 / 256MB RAM /20GB HDD, with WindowsXP Home and all other pre-installed softwares like OfficeXP, IE6 etc. Recently I found some performance degradation on the system, and found “Bad Disk” errors in the System Event Log. I defragmented the hard-disk several times, ran the ‘Error-Checking’ feature availbe in XP, uninstalled several unwanted softwares and finally found that the error had gone. During this time, I used to get an error saying that the McAfee VirusScan program cannot run due to some corrupt file, and i was not able to uninstall it as well. But after the above excerise, i was able to uninstall & reinstall the McAfee antivirus program back to the laptop.
After about a week, I have now started getting error that says:
“Your machine is low on Virtual Memory or has no Virtual Memory, Windows is resizing it for proper working. During this time some applicaions may not work properly”
I have 256MB physical RAM, pagefile settings are 384/512MBand have more than 5GB of free space on hard-disk after defragmentation. The pagefile that windows sets is 256MB every time I restart my machine!!
I tried to reconfigure this, but after restarting, the same thing happens! I do have all administrative rights to the pc, still the settings are not saved!
The machine works ok otherwise, but previously, since there’s only one user on the mahcine, it used to automatically log me in, but now, unless I press CTRL+ALT+DEL, the machine does not log-in!!
How to get rid of this isssue?