Win XP virtual memory standard setting method

When your game is playing right, or when you open multiple windows with Passion Surfing, your system will always have a prompt like the one on the right. The machine was slow like a snail at this time, and the good mood just disappeared. In our article, the 20th E5 version of the rookie file, "Retrieve the occupied system disk space", mentioned the simple setting of virtual memory. This problem has attracted the interest of many novice friends, which they often encounter. Case. What is the role of virtual memory? How much is it better? This article will give a detailed introduction to it. All of the following steps use the Windows XP operating system as an example.

"Standard Room" for Virtual Memory

When the system is running, first transfer the required commands and data from external storage (such as hard disk, floppy disk, CD, etc.) into memory. The CPU then reads the instruction or data from the memory to perform the operation, and stores the operation result in the memory. The memory plays a role like a "secondary passer". When running a program that requires a lot of data and takes up a lot of memory, the memory warehouse will be "stuffed", and in this "warehouse" there is always a part of the temporarily unused data occupying a limited space, so this part is to be " "Inert" data "please" out to free up space for "active" data usage. At this point, you need to create another backup "warehouse" to store "lazy" data. Due to the large space of the hard disk, the Microsoft Windows operating system selects the address of the backup "warehouse" on the hard disk. This backup "warehouse" is virtual memory. By default, virtual memory is saved in the system partition of the hard disk as a swap file called Pagefile.sys.

Manually setting virtual memory

In the default state, the system manages virtual memory, but the default management mode of the system is usually conservative, which will cause the page file to be discontinuous during automatic adjustment. , while reducing the efficiency of reading and writing, the work efficiency is not high, so there will often be a "sufficient memory" prompt, let us set it up.

1 Right-click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select the "Properties" option in the right-click menu that appears to open the "System Properties" window. Click on the "Advanced" tab in the window, the dialog box for advanced settings appears (Figure 1);

Figure 1