lol computer telling me im running out of memory

[brenmac]

running short of memory and i dont understand wht do i have to do,as it said i was getting more memory,brenda XXx

[brenmac]

lol computer telling me im running out of memory

lol how did it know,put an sos on computer help. brenda xxx

[marylou]

Mine tells me that from time to time bren....................its not computer thats out of memory its me half the time.....................lol

[brenmac]

lol it said it was giving me more,dont know how it runs out of memory see machines also have senior moments brenda xxx

[bev&kev]

Mine does that as well. Says it every day for a week or so, then it stops. A few months later, off it goes again.

[brenmac]

thankgoodness its not just mine,must be over working it lol brenda xxx

[Guest]

I get that sometimes and its usually when I have lots of windows open so I just close one or two of them down.
We did actully install some more on my PC so dont know why I still get that message.

[Astro Lady]

Lol Brenda :D

Was you using a specific programme at the time ? If you was using (lets say) word or photopaint and this came up it usually means you need your cache adjusting as it cant find enough memory for what article you want to use at that time. It's all to do with your cache...in other words,the cache is a part of your hard-drive that you specify to use for memory overload,like a reserve after you've used all your "physical" memory up. Not sure though . Oh i'm confused now !

[Len of the Chilterns]

If its a desktop, buy some more memory or an external hard drive.

[Astro Lady]

If its a desktop, buy some more memory or an external hard drive.

Errmm Len Lol !
Unless it's a huge programme you don't have to spend a penny.
Just alter your Cache number in the cache memory settings ? Yes ? ;)

[brenmac]

please exsplain how i do the cache thingy,im hopeless,someone said to delete my temp files and defrag,and cookies,i do that once a week anyway but never do the cookies,as i would loose all my passwords and have to do them all again brenda xxx

[Guest]

Brenda most people will tell you its not needed to delete your cookies

[brenmac]

but how do i cache ?brenda xxx

[brenmac]

it came up when i was on ancestry only had that window open brenda xxx

[Len of the Chilterns]

Errmm Len Lol !
Unless it's a huge programme you don't have to spend a penny.
Just alter your Cache number in the cache memory settings ? Yes ? ;)

I misunderstood and thought Brenda was referring to space on the hard disc, not RAM

[jenmargs]

For the cache

Tools
Options
Advanced
Network

Mine is set at 50mb.

you could increase yours I expect.

[brenmac]

i have no tools showing on her at the top bar,went to my outlook and found tools,option but no advance or network, brenda xxx

[Astro Lady]

Bren,
Sorry i haven't been back to you.Lol. :o
Do you have windows xp ?

[Astro Lady]

Try this....

On your computer go to Start >Settings > Control Panel.
Click on SYSTEM
Go to the ADVANCED tab at the top
Where it says Performance click on the Settings tab
Click on the ADVANCED tab at the top
Now you will see three options.
You will see Virtual Memory near to the bottom
Click on the Change tab
The default is set at one and a half times the RAM of your pc but you can usually alter it to 3 times that amount safely so that amy huge resources can handle the memory usage such as large programmes etc.

Therefore if you have 256 MB ram installed on your PC you can change the minimum size to 384 MB and the maximum size to 1154 MB, make sure the custom button is marked with a little dot first. When that's done just press OK then restart your PC.

If you have any problems just make sure you have set a system restore point beforehand, although you shouldn't have any
problems, it's just in case.

[KiteRunner]

If you get the message again, Bren, it might be worth pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete to see what programs etc are running.