It has been so long time since the last time I wrote a post. This time I am interested to share you a little trick.
Is your computer that runs in Windows 7 slow? Or, did you get some notification stated that your virtual memory was low? If the answer is "yes", it means that you need to buy new or additional memory (RAM). But, how if you don't have sufficient money to afford one, or what if you don't intend to do so in any reason?
Here we are going to do some trick to solve it. All we have to do is to add its virtual memory. Theoretically, adding virtual memory is to enlarge RAM capacity by using the free space of hard disk drive. Since the speed of HDD would never equalize the speed of DDR/RAM (because HDD reaches its clock through mechanical speed [RPM], meanwhile DDR gets it through electrical speed [Hz]), it's impossible to match 4 GB of RAM/DDR with 4 GB of RAM + additional HDD virtual memory. But, it's still worthy than nothing to do.
Okay! Let's go straight to things we wanna do!
- Click "Windows" button on the lower left corner! Then click "Control Panel"!
- After it, the window like below will be shown. Then click "System and Security" section!
- Then click "View amount of RAM and processor speed"!
- Then click "Advance system settings" on the left panel!
- Click "Advance" tab -> Click "Settings" on "Performance" section!
- Click "Advance" tab -> click "Change" on "Virtual memory" section!
- Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" box -> select "C:" drive -> click "Custom size" radio button! In the "Initial size" box you can type the allocated bytes that you want. (Here I gave 2048 MB - higher than recommended.) In the "Maximum size" box you can double the amount. (Here I doubled it to 4096.) Then click "Set" -> "OK"!
- After all, the "Performance Options" window will show that now our virtual memory is 2048 MB - which is taken from HDD.
This has worked very well in my operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition Service Pack 1. I hope it will work in your OS too.
