Optimize your pc performance managing virtual memory

Have you every called in computer support or referred to online computer Help for speeding up your PC. If yes you might have observed that they tend to manage the Virtual memory of your PC. As a misconception we think that virtual memory fastens the computer, however actually it acts like RAM which a space is provided on Hard Drive. If you refer to any online computer support website and look for Virtual memory, no where it will be mentioned that virtual memory speeds up the PC. As all of us are aware that Hard Drives are slower than RAM and Virtual memory is space on Hard Drive, the speed of PC will never enhance.

Now a Days the application are getting bigger and sophisticated, which in turn require more space and bigger Memory. You might have observed that when you call in your computer repair refers to online computer help one of the troubleshooting steps is increasing the size of Virtual Memory. Now let’s have a look at what actually happens. When a user starts opening up the programs one by one he/she experiences the system slows down gradually. You can simply compare it with a small room filed with 10 people, after sometime the space to breathe reduces and you require more space, similarly the system needs to copy the application data from the Hard Drive into the system memory in order for it to process and execute the data. Once the memory gets filled up with data, the system will stop loading the program and might result in PC hang. In this case, either the user can add memory which is expensive or share some space from Hard Drive.

Nearly all the tech support or computer help companies and online computer support or online computer help websites recommends that having too low of Virtual Memory size or large Virtual Memory size is not a good idea. If you set the Virtual Memory too low, then the OS will keep on giving message “Not enough memory or Virtual too low”. In order to correct this problem either you can call your computer support company or refer to any of the free articles available on some online computer support website.

If you set the Virtual Memory size too large it will create the performance lagging, and even it will take the HDD free space. Therefore, that is not a good idea. The recommendation by all the computer support companies is that the ideal size for the Virtual Memory is the default size of Virtual Memory, and it should not be exceed the value of the triple size of system memory. You can also find this recommendation on any of online computer support website.

To maintain the good overall system performance, you should be using the default size of actual size for Virtual Memory and the triple the value of the size of the main memory for the maximum size of Virtual Memory. For more information on virtual memory call your computer support company or refer to online computer support libraries.

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