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wot does viutal memory mean?

Feb 28, 2004 12:03AM PST

i keep getting a pop up saying ur virtal memory low .wot does it mean

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What does wot mean?
Feb 28, 2004 12:57AM PST

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Re:What does wot mean?
Feb 28, 2004 1:22AM PST

roflmao !

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Re:wot does viutal memory mean?/briefly or not so briefly
Feb 28, 2004 1:29AM PST

Hey, I make typing errors too. You have two kinds of memory in your system. You have "physical" memory which are the modules on your motherboard. This is volitile in that it's lost when you turn off your PC. You have hard drive space that Windows will use in a similar fashion to physical memory as needed. This is often referred to as your "swap file". I believe some swap file space is always in use but Windows will substitute this "virtual" memory (which is really hard drive media space) as physical memory depletes. Physical memory is much faster to access than hard drive space so this is one of the main reasons you may be encouraged to upgrade to more of it to increase system performance. Hope this helps some.

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Re:wot does viutal memory mean?
Feb 29, 2004 1:41AM PST
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Re:Re:wot does viutal memory mean?
Mar 1, 2004 10:33PM PST

thank u 4 ur help the last 2 and as 4 the other 2 a bet uve never spelt anything wrong in ur life have u.and thanks again 2 last 2