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Win2K virtual mem problem during update

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by evogel Jan 21, 2003 last reply Feb 3, 2003

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I have a user that gets a quirky message every time she tries to download from windows update. She does not get this error any other time and she gets it even when windows update is the only program open on her computer (anti-virus software is disabled). The message she gets is, "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of you virtual memory paging file. During this process memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more informtion see Help." I've tried increasing her paging file up to 1GB from her normal 382 MB and she still gets this message. Any ideas?

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by bobho Jan 22, 2003

A couple of things to try:

1 - set the Initial and Max sizes to the same value (somewhere around 3x to 4x physical memory).
2 - check the volume permissions on the drive where the paging file is located to see if the user is in a group that has full permissions to the drive. See if setting permissions to Full for Everyone resolves the problem.

DrBob:>)