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How do you increase your virtual memory? And what's the reasoning behind the factor 1.5?
– Oliver Salzburg
Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 14:46
While increasing virtual memory (by increasing the size of the pagefile) is valuable, it may only lead to a lot of paging, which will slow the machine waaaay down. If all unnecessary programs have been prevented from running, then the best thing to do is install more RAM.
– Fran
Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 16:15
To increase your virtual memory follow the path : Go to MY COMPUTER properties->select "Advance system settings"->go to 'advance' tab->select the "settings" under PERFORMANCE->go to advance tab->under Virtual Memory Select Change-> Select Custom size to give min. and max. size......It is recommended to increase your Virtual memory upto 1.5x of your physical memory(ex:if you have 4GB RAM then you can assign upto 6GB virtual memory). But FRANs suggestion is also correct. Please try to minimize your unnecessary background application.
– tiki
Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 18:46
So is it proven that it's overall better to increase or decrease the page file, in terms of raw, overall performance? Is the 1.5x really necessary?
– Coldblackice
Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 17:48

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