How to change the size of the virtual memory in Windows XP

Posted Date: 20-Jun-2010		Category: Performance & Optimization
Author: Shreedhara H	Member Level: Gold
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This article giives the information about how To change the size of the virtual memory in windows XP.

To change the size of the virtual memory, You must be an administrator or a member of the Administrators group. If your computer is connected to a network you should make it offline.

The procedure to do this is given below:

click Start,
click Control Panel,
click Performance and Maintenance,
and then click System.
On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
On the Advanced tab, under Virtual memory, click Change
Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change
Under Paging file size for selected drive, click Custom size, and type a new paging file size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, and then click Set.
you must restart your computer to see the effects of those changes

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