I need MEMORY!

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Can someone tell me what is a good site to buy memory for a Dell system? I only have 128MB and I keep getting messages that y virtual memory is low.

Many thanks

 

Bell,
virtual memory is not the same as physical memory which in your case is 128MB. Virtual memory is stored on your hard drive... but it is NOT the hard-drive itself.
I hate reproducing text..so to understand what VM is .. please take some time to read this http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virtual-memory1.htm

it will give you a decent idea of what it is why you don't necessarily need more Phyisical RAM (128MB)..

Please also tell us what Operating System you are using.. win98/Win2000/winXP
Thank you and welcome to Major Geeks.

 

Thank you for responding. I thought the site was helpful in understanding what virtual memory actually is. I am running Windows XP home edition. I recently had to delete various spy ware on my PC so I downloaded from major geeks "hijack this", spybot, and pest patrol. But I noticed that my PC was soooooo slow before I even downloaded any of these programs. I like to think I am computer savy, so I have tried everything in my power to enhance the performance of my PC. What next?

-Laurie

 

can you tell us a bit more about your machine?
Read this and it will explain what kind of info we need..
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/vb/announcement.php?f=21