Thread: How To Increase Your Virtual RAM

This tutorial only applies to Windows XP.

Increase Your Virtual RAM:

Ok, so let's say you use a lot of memory consuming programs, and your 512MB/1GB RAM just wont cut it, at that point, windows uses Virtual Memory which is basically a partition on your HD which acts like RAM. The default size for your Virtual Memory is 1521, but sometimes it is good to have a little more. Here is how you adjust the size of your Virtual Memory.

1) Go into your Control Panel

2) Go to Performance and Maintenance

3) Click on the Advanced tab

4) Under the Performance panel, click Settings

5) On the window that pops up, you should be on the "Visual Effects" tab...navigate to Advanced

6) On the bottom panel where it says "Virtual Memory," click change

7) Change the initial size to about 3000 and change the max to 4096

Congratulations, your system should now be faster and programs should run more smoothly.



For people like me who switched the Control Panel to the classic view:

1. Start

2. Control Panel

3. System

4. Click on the Advanced tab

5. On the window that pops up, you should be on the "Visual

6. Effects" tab...navigate to Advanced

7. On the bottom panel where it says "Virtual Memory," click change

8. Change the initial size to about 3000 and change the max to 4096


Remember that this is virtual memory which is hundreds of times slower then actual RAM, if you follow these exact steps your system will gain a maximum of just about 4.1GB of virtual memory which is being taken away from your hard drive.

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Just kidding I knew what your talking about, thanks added, don't think I can rep yet..
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i'm not sure how to do that on this forum either maybe some mod can englighten us as to how to put an image link with a different url then the url of the image
maybe there is no way to hotlink to the thanks i think it required your security token..


already knew how to do this tutorial but this info is very important I personally like to change the HD too, swapfile seems to do better if it's not on the same physical HD that windows is on

In ubuntu, you have to change the swap area to do the trick.

However, nowadays virtual memory is almost not necessary. "Everybody" has at least 2GB of Ram, and in most of the cases this value is more than enough. In other side, virtual memory is much slower than physical ram, so you have no real advantage using it.

The only advantage I can see is if you need to hibernate the computer. In this process, it can be critical if you have low virtual memory.

thanks for that, really help me
thanks for sharing

On win 7 ive got on System.. Advanced tab dont exist.