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 show up as shown 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 the "Advanced" tab in the window, the dialog box for advanced settings appears (Figure 1);

Figure 1

2 Click the "Settings" button in the "Performance" area. Select the Advanced tab in the Performance Options window that appears to open its dialog.

3 In the dialog box, you can see the area about virtual memory. Click the "Change" button to enter the setting window of "Virtual Memory". Select a partition with a larger free capacity, check the box in front of "Custom Size", fill in the specific values ​​in the "Initial Size" and "Maximum" columns, and then click the "Settings → OK" button. Yes (Figure 2), finally restart the computer to make the virtual memory settings take effect.

The above is the setting method of virtual memory in Windows XP operating system. I also briefly mention the settings in Windows 98 operating system:

In Windows 98 system Go to Start → Settings → Control Panel → System → Performance → Virtual Memory. In the pop-up dialog box, select the User-specified virtual memory setting option, set the virtual memory location in the appropriate partition, and set it. The minimum and maximum values ​​of virtual memory, and finally click the "OK" button to complete.

Suggestion: You can divide a small partition for virtual memory, IE temporary file storage, etc., and you can periodically defragment the partition, which can improve the working efficiency of the computer