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Post by Donna on Apr 25, 2010 13:12:39 GMT -8
When the blue scren comes up, most of the time it says something about the memory. Isn't there somewhere to adjust the virtual memory? Happenswhen I am watching you tube mostly.
I am thinking maybe its just time to put a new OS on it and start over.
(no terry I have not done anything with the other computer) Its in the basement, i hate the basement.
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Post by JoeC on Apr 25, 2010 14:49:07 GMT -8
what operating System?
in XP, click the start button, right click on "My Computer" and select properties, int the system properties box, select the Advanced tab, In the performance box, select the tab that says Settings, In the Performance Options box, select the Advanced tab, There is a virtual memory box near the bottom, select the Change button. From there you can see what you have for virtual memory and make the necessary changes, you will need to reboot for the change to take effect. most often you want to have 1-1/2 to 2 times the virtual memory than you have actual memory. Let us know if you need to find out how much actual memory you have in the laptop
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Post by terry1966 on Apr 25, 2010 15:13:03 GMT -8
well looks like joe got here first. the 2x rule for page file size(virtual memory) is only up to 1gb of real memory in my opinion, the more memory you have over, say 2gb then the less you'll need a page file, with my 6gb of ram i wouldn't have any virtual memory or a bare minimum of 512mb for example. think the first thing i'd do on that pc tho donna is run a program like ccleaner and clean all temp files. and if your running out of memory i'd do some virus scans to find out if you've been infected with something that's actually using all your memory in the background without you knowing. might also be tho that your real memory is failing and when it tries to use the bad parts it errors and gives you the blue screen before rebooting. so i'd do a memory test on it from a live cd to check it's all working fine too.
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Post by Donna on Apr 25, 2010 15:41:35 GMT -8
hahaha, I am so bad at this. Its got vista home edition on it. I looked online but where they said it is........I can't find it,
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Post by terry1966 on Apr 25, 2010 16:18:37 GMT -8
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Post by webpolice on Apr 25, 2010 17:41:58 GMT -8
It could be a corrupt hardware driver or possibly bad memory.
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Post by terry1966 on Apr 26, 2010 18:01:45 GMT -8
i do wish you'd keep us updated on your progress donna even if it's to just say bugger it i've given up and will put up with the problem for a bit longer, before i try and fix it again. lmao.
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Post by andy on Apr 26, 2010 23:19:18 GMT -8
i do wish you'd keep us updated on your progress donna even if it's to just say bugger it i've given up and will put up with the problem for a bit longer, before i try and fix it again. lmao. Now you're beginning to see why she is only worth freight and not 1st class
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Post by Donna on Apr 27, 2010 16:40:49 GMT -8
LOL Oh piss off Andy! There is no virtual memory thing in vista. Not that I can find anyway. But, I think it was my video driver needed updating. I havent crashed since then. But I have another question. My hard drive is partitioned. 2 partitions each 55.82 gb. First one is almost full, second is empty, How Do I partition it?
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Post by JoeC on Apr 28, 2010 4:30:45 GMT -8
The second partition might have the recovery software on it, it's very common for most manufactures to put a second partition on the drive with the recovery software instead of giving you a recovery disk (cheap bastards!)
get an external drive and move all of your music, video and pics to that drive to free up space
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Post by Donna on Apr 28, 2010 16:17:29 GMT -8
I don't keep anything on the laptop, Everything is on my external drives. It shows the drive as empty. Wouldn't it show that something was there.
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Post by JoeC on Apr 28, 2010 16:19:13 GMT -8
I would think so.........
how big is this second partition?
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Post by Donna on Apr 28, 2010 16:21:05 GMT -8
55.83, the main was is 55.82. The hard drive is 120gb. it says the drive is 55.83 and 55.83 is free.
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Post by webpolice on Apr 28, 2010 17:44:30 GMT -8
Clean up the main partition. If you keep everything on external drives a Win XP installation and your programs should take much more than 5 to 10 gigs. The second partition is probably your restore partition although they usually don't make the partition much larger than the restore files.
Run a software like Spacemonger to see what is taking up the space on your hard drive.
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Post by Donna on Apr 28, 2010 18:40:31 GMT -8
I have Vista. Theres a lot of acer shit on here, but I dont know what I need or if I need any of it.
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