Virtual Memory fills while idle

Goto Start>Find>Files or Folders...
In the Named: Type NORMAL.DOT
In Look in ensure the C drive is selected
the click on find now. Delete any entries that are listed. Also clear out startup group items:
Start>Run in the open box type MSCONFIG & click OK
underneath startup selection, select selective startup & remove the Tick from 'Load up startup group items' Then click on apply & OK & reboot.

Hope this sorts

Hi,

How much RAM does your PC have? If your virtual RAM is filling up, you may have an application memory leak.

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the Task Manager, click on Processes and check the Usage Time. If any processes other than System Idle have hogged a lot of cycles, check them out and reinstall them.

Hope this helps,

Try this (you'll need to edit your system.ini file). Click Start->Run and type in SysEdit. Go to the System.ini file and look for the heading [386enh] and add a line like this:

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

Save the changes, close SysEdit and reboot your machine.

I won't go into all the finer points of memory management in Win98 but you can find alot if information on this tweak if you do a search on Google (or your favorite search engine). Here's a link to one of the many sites describing Win98 memory management if you are interested:

http://www.aumha.org/a/memmgmt.htm

Let us know if this helps,

DrBob:>)

Hi,

If you right click on My Computer, click properties, choose the Performance tab,click the Virtual Memory button you will then have a choice of either letting Windows manage virtual memory or setting the parameters yourself (second radio button). By manually settting the virtual memory parameters within the limits of your hard drive space you won't get the 'running out of space'error and your system will stabalize. Hope this helps you out. (-:

Windows will set the virtual memory to about 1.5 to 2 times the amount of ram in the system. So if you have 128MB of ram the virtual memory setting at full capacity will be 256MB. So the 350MB of hard drive space isn't enough for this large of a swap file. Plus you don't have room to install most of the huge software titles that's out today. A 20GB drive is only about $60.00-80.00, I'd get a larger drive. Changing your virtual memory settings could help but may also produce negative results. Here are a few things that can help.

Reboot to a DOS prompt by pressing the F8 key just before the cloud screen appears and select the last choice. Normally the file is located in the windows folder but may be located at the root of the drive. Delete the swap file by typing rither of the following commands.

del c:\windows\win386.swp
del c:\win386.swp

Then reboot, Windows will create a new file.

Here is a batch file you can create to automate deletion of junk files. Save the file as "tempdump.bat" from there just type in tempdump and hit enter. Once complete the DOS prompt will close and return back to windows. Anytime you want to run the batch file simple click START|RUN type in "C:\tempdump" without quotes

Run command,type in "CD\" edit hit enter input the following lines.

@echo off
cd\
DELTREE /y c:\windows\history\*.* > NUL
DELTREE /y c:\windows\tempor~1\*.* > NUL
DELTREE /y c:\windows\temp\*.tmp > NUL
DELTREE /y c:\windows\cookies\*.* > NUL
DELTREE /y c:\windows\applic~1\micros~1\office\recent\*.* > NUL
DELTREE /y c:\windows\ShellIconCache
exit

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