If you are running virtual mem, it is your hard drive. Its either getting full, or needs a derframenting badly. Try that to get more space for virt mem. How much ram do you have? Vid card?

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

Defragment huh? I think i know how to do that(considering im 12). You know I think your the guy that has saved my butt most of the time with FL related problems. THANK YOU

I don't know how to check RAM and vid card.

Edited by - jagged on 4/5/2004 11:36:10 PM

or... Virtual Memory Size has been restricted, check that first, i can run with about 300Mb of virtual

Well, as i said im 12 and i don't know how to check if size has been restricted. So iv'e started defragmenting currently it's at 3%.YAY

Defragmenting was relatively fast and now there is absolutely no fragmented file on my computer!

I was also wondering how you advance ranks here.

Edited by - jagged on 4/6/2004 12:43:30 AM

ranks are like your post count, meaningless

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I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams

Ok its still not working, how do i check restrictions?

look just do this, ok? right click on My Computer, go to properties>advanced>performance>settings, choose adjust for best performance, then click on advanced, set both options for programs, then go to virtual memory>change, highlight drive C: and select maximum size>system managed size for the paging file settings, then click set and ok and ok again and ok again. If you feel like it, you might want to turn off Remote Access, Error Reporting and Windows Update as they all eat up memory too. Also if your hard drive is full (less than 10% free, this will slow your system right down. I always keep mine under 50% used and it really does make a difference as the paging file can expand and contract quite a bit. Also check your start up folder as you might have stacks of background stuff running (and probably do) and if you've been Kazaa-ing, kill that too as it eats system resources.

You may also have a virus, many use Word as the default html editor and rewrite the word templates in order to open up silly pages. Do a full virus scan with UPDATED definitions. Find the normal.doc file, delete it or rename it and reopen Word and the template will be recreated cleanly, thus fixing that problem. I see this quite a lot.

Hmm, the bar things are in block format now or something like that. I'll see if this did anything, wish me luck and thanks.

Edited by - Jagged on 4/6/2004 4:48:17 PM

you'll be fine

What in the heck. It still dosen't work. I still get that message saying its increasing my virtual memory pageing file.

have you checked your startup and virus-scanned? defragging will do nothing if the paging file is being eaten up by background tasks or virus activity (the bar and block view formats are just a visual reference of the disk map)

About how long will it take to defrag a 60 gig hd that's using about 40? I wanna know if I can do it in one night from 9 PM to 5PM the next day.

Signature? What's that?

if it's NTFS and clean, not very long, hour-ish maybe. FAT32 a lot longer. But a lot depends on how fragmented it is to begin with.