Q: Hi, I have a PII 350 with 128MB RAM.
OS have been W2000 SP1
Every morning, I have at least 3 browsers, FrontPage 2000, Photoshop 4.0, and Windows Media Player 7.0 using 128 kbps video news beat. However, after several hours, performance, and the low virtual memory u0026quot; u0026quot, Win2000 error pops up.
I did nothing to change the virtual memory setting.
But only less than 10000K left in the available memory.
Okay, now I need more RAM or a new CPU?
I was thinking about improving the CPU. What do you think?
Re:guy: I started WMP and listened to Madonna's 700K DVD streams. The result is my system only had 4000K physical memory left…. I will reinstall the WMP. But I think the virtual low memory has to do with the amount of apps I have opened. Six so far, not including WMP.
Re:guy: What version of Windows media player 7.0 do you have? (Beta or final) I had a user here on my network at work with Windows 2000 and WMP 7 beta, and he would get "low(or)out of virtual memory" after listening to streaming audio on the net for a couple of hours. Do this when it you get a low on virtual memory message or after a while of listening to streaming audio, go to your task manager (ctrl-alt-delete) and click on the processes tab and see how much memory is WMP is taking up. I did that here and WMP was taking about 300megs of memory. I just did a reinstall of the final version and everything is ok now.
Re:If you get your RAM from a local computer shop, not Best Buy or some place like that…
You might be able to talk them into trading in your PC-100 RAM for PC-133 and just pay the difference ($5)…
It's worth a try and there is a slight performance increase as well…
Re:With all the apps you are running you definitely need to upgrage to 256.
Re:I have 1.4GB free…
I also increased the VM, but the situation didn't get better.
The low memory seems to be gone, but EVERYTHING's running SLOOOWWWW…
I will get more RAM.
Re:oh and like ausm said, more will be lots better. i went from 128…
Re:also if it says low virtual memory then maybe you're running out of disk space eh. clean some trash out maybe.
Re:I would suggest getting more Ram also it made a world of difference for me..
AUsm
Re:i'm runnin w2k adv srv w/ 256 one is pc100 the other is pc133. i put the 133 behind the 100. (0/1)
so if you buy the 133 you're ready for that future upgrade or overclock.
Re:Best to keep your RAM the same. Also, when you add more RAM increase the VM too. MS recommends RAM+12meg. More is even better. I have 256m RAM and my VM is set to Min & Max at 512m.
guy 
Re:Thanks people. I think I will go with the extra 128MB RAM.
Do you think I should get the PC100 or PC133 RAM. I have PC100 RAM in my computer. Would mixing the two cause 'inconsistency'?
Thanks…
Re:But it never hurts to get more RAM either
BTW if 320 doesnt work raise it some more.Re:Go into VM and set it like Min 320 Max 320 and youll be set.
Re:do both…win2k runs best with about 256 mb of ram. i guarantee you will feel the difference in ram levels if you upgrade to 256. ram is dirt cheap right now so go get some.
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