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When playing games on facebook, I often get the message "virtual memory too low, is being increased" Is there something I can do to clean out the "virtual memory" to avoid this?

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As mentioned in my question above, it happens usually during playing games. I wondered if there were someway to clean out the virtual memory, as opposed to it "increasing" continually and overloading my memory in general. You are speaking with a computer novice for the most part, so I am unfamiliar with a lot. I do do updates and general maintenance on the computer, but is that enough for this issue?

As mentioned in my question above, it happens usually during playing games. I wondered if there were someway to clean out the virtual memory, as opposed to it "increasing" continually and overloading my memory in general. You are speaking with a computer novice for the most part, so I am unfamiliar with a lot. I do do updates and general maintenance on the computer, but is that enough for this issue?

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Your plugins list shows outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.

  • Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.


Physical memory is the memory that is installed on your computer as real memory. To be able to run programs that require more memory and more programs at the same time (via time sharing and task switching) it is also possible to move (swap) currently not needed code and data to disk to make room for other programs and data. The total memory available for programs is the Virtual Memory.

You can check the Virtual Memory settings here: Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Settings (Advanced tab)
Windows can manage more memory then is physical available and that memory is stored in a page file on your hard drive. If the size of that file is not large enough and all available memory is in use then you get the Virtual Memory is low warning. Make sure that you have at least 1 GB or the recommended setting for the Virtual Memory. If you have less than 1 GB physical memory installed on your computer then if possible add more memory.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223 - RAM, Virtual Memory, Pagefile and all that stuff