How To Increase Virtual Memory Size
In Windows 7
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Virtual Memory is a space allocated
in computers hard disk to combine with RAM (Random Access memory) and act as
virtual extra RAM to boost up computer’s performance at times of high resources
usage. This is done by allocating a temporary hard disk space called as “Paging
File” . This file helps in moving data to and from computer’s RAM. Due to this,
RAM is freed up and increases stability of your system.
Windows allocates default Virtual
Memory to every PC. But at times, it makes sense to increase Virtual Memory
size. To do it, follow these steps:
1.
Click Start button, then right-click on “Computer” and select “Properties”.
2.
In the left pane of the System Properties windows, click on the link “Advanced
system settings”.
3.
In the “Advanced” tab of “System Properties” dialog box, click on “Settings”
button in the “Performance” section.
4. In the “Performance Options” click on “Advanced” tab. Then
click “Change” button.
5.
Clear check box “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives”.
6.
Select “C:” volume label, and change radio button to “Custom Size”. Enter a
initial size of paging file in MB. Normally for a 1GB system RAM, the initial
value would be 1024MB. Enter Maximum size in MB. This value will be recommended
by Windows as shown in the screen-shot below. In our test PC, Windows
recommended 1521MB for Paging file size. Check your system’s value and enter it
accordingly.
7.
Click “OK”.
And restart your computer...