How does one increase VIRTUAL MEMORY?

[cgkanchi]

I've never had a system that would not boot just because I changed virtual memory settings. How did you manage that (I'm curious). In the very least, we always have last known good configuration to select at the boot menu.
Cheers,
cgkanchi

[jinxy]

cgkanchi, win98.
Ok so xp and 2000 protect you from messing up but try it on 98. There is no last good configeration to go back to.

[cgkanchi]

I'm still curious as to what you did with the virtual memory settings to make win98 not boot. Aside from setting it to a read-only drive, or one that is already totally full, I can't think of anything.
Cheers,
cgkanchi

[cheyenne1212]

I to am curious.

From what I understand, theres nothing really "dangerous" about giving windos a good dose of virtual memory.

It does not edit important files, it basically just tells windows to use x amount of space on the hard drive if it runs out of ram.

[HTRegz]

I'd be hardpressed to believe you could make a system non-bootable by changing the virtual memory settings. Since this is just a place to swap data that's momentarily not being used in and out of ram.. the worst you should be able to do is leave yourself with insufficient memory errors. This would require you to have a very minimal amount of RAM though. Also if you had too much stuff loading on boot and such, then you should be fine in safe mode since it is a minimal boot anyways. I could see disabling it causing a lot of problems, but not causing the computer to stop booting. Anyways that's just my two cents.

HT

[jinxy]

It has been a while since i had the problem and it only happend once. I had just been given my first pc and was messing with just about everything i could to see what would happen. I had read an article on improving system performance and one off the tweeks was to set a fixed amount of vertual memory rather than let windows manage it. So i followed the given instructions ( i cant remember what they where now ) and it would not boot.

[groovicus]

Im going to make a wild guess here. If you did anything like I used to do when I had my first computer, you ran across a bunch of tweaks and went "hot damn"...

So I went in changed a couple things, rebooted, changed a couple more things, etc., until it wouldn't boot anymore. So I would wager that it was the cumulation of the changes you made that caused your system to become unbootable.

In the future, when applying changes, apply them one at a time, and don't change anything else until you know for sure that you haven't hosed something. Another good idea is to keep a notebook beside your computer (I have several) to keep track of what changes you made and when.

It's either that, or you end up reinstalling your OS a lot.

[nihil]

Hi,

How much RAM have you got?. Contrary to what a lot of self-styled "gurus" will tell you there is no "magic multiplier". The less RAM you have, the more virtual memory you will need.

For example, this machine has 128Mb of RAM and I have set the virtual memory to 384Mb.

You have to be careful that there is enough space on the drive/partition you choose. Take a restore point and defragment the chosen partition before you do it.

I would seriously consider increasing your physical RAM if it is less than 256Mb.

Cheers

[Death2Eve]

ok this is a trip, i went into the control panel, looing for the advanced tab, but could find nothing. Im stumped here, but im thinking im better off to just reformat both drives and start fresh all over again. I need to take more precausions before downloading so much $#it.
I allways do this, and i never learn. heh. Im going to do it tomarrow if i can, i need to aquire a win98 disc, i have windows2k but i hate it, it sux. (my opinion). And im used to win98 more than any OS.

I need to ready it with the right stuff, so i might be offline for a while,

heh, wish me luck.

[DeadAddict]

Ok in post #7 I explain how to get to it
Once you are in the control panel double click on the icon called system it looks like a little computer, on the right hand side of the System properties box that comes up you will see the Advanced tab.