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~ Can you help me with my computer please?

~ have an HP computer, about 4 years old. The past few months it runs very slow, and sometimes freezes. I have run all the programs for viruses ext....And when Im playing an online gave via facebook,,, (yes Farmville) a message pops up at the bottom of my screen saying I am out of virtual memory? and then the whole screen freezes and I cannot do anything. What does that mean? How can I fix it the Virtual memory?

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You can preallocate virtual memory.

    Right click My Computer, Select Properties.

    Under the Advanced Tab, Click Setting (Under Performance)

    Select Advanced Tab, Click Change (Under Virtual Memory).

    The amount of memory can be adjusted if you select Custom Size.

    I would preallocate it to 2048 for Initial Size, reboot and you should

    have more virtual memory

  • 1 decade ago

    Why are a lot of people so quick to blame a slow PC on viruses. It is true that most of the time this may be the cause, but several things can cause this, bad hard drive, driver conflicts, low memory, bad memory, Automatic Updates from Microsoft(this is the biggest problem with computers today). This last one is from experience.

  • IBMGuy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The computer uses a lot of virtual memory when there is not enough REAL memory. You need to buy some more RAM. For Windows XP it's best to use a minimum of 1Gbyte of ram. Your machine is painfully slow because I am willing to bet that it only has 256Mb -a quarter of what you really need to run modern apps. The virtual ram will automatically adjust when you put in the extra ram so you will not need to do anything else.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There's commercials for Finally Fast or mycleanpc.com, you might have registry errors, I don't know if that stuff works though. Try downloading a malware detector, there might be spyware on your computer that's slowing everything down.

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  • 1 decade ago

    ur pc has gotten a virus , scan your pc with good antivirus. if u dont have download avg antivirus, & it is good. 2.if you dont get solved by it then reinstall ur OS , your pc will run fastly & correctly after this

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