All your PC problems, Volume 2

GazM

I've had Vista for over a year now,

From my experience, It's very stable, Never blue screened, Never froze, Never crashed, and It's GUI shits on XP

golden_blunder

my experience of new pc's is to format and reinstall the fucker straight from the start

WeasteDevil

This!

Stanley Road

Damn right

The garbage they come with preloaded is shocking

Derek Brown

Hi Guys

I keep getting a message coming up saying "Windows-Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low". Sometimes it can come up when I'm not doing anything on the PC, not even being on the Caf!! I've had a look at my system info and that says:

Total Physical Memory 512 MB Available Physical Memory 152.94 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB

The figures seem O.K. to me, but I'm a bellend when it comes to computers. Is this message anything to worry about?

Thanks

Derek

Justin

How's your physical disk space? How much free space do you have?

Also, could be a corrupt virtual memory file.

You can try clearing out the virtual memory, restart and set the virtual memory again

Derek Brown

All double dutch to me, Justin. How do I do this? Also, I constantly have AOL Scheduler running, but I don't use AOL. Could this be anything to do with it.

Thanks, mate.

Christofaux

If your C: drive has less disk space then 2 gigs then its taking out of the virtual memory. In my computer right click your c: drive and click properties. Check to see how full it is there.

Justin

You go right-click on my computer and select properties.

Select the Advanced tab and click on settings.
Go to the advanced tab, there should be a section on virtual memory. Click on that. Select No paging file. Should ask you to restart. This should clear out your virtual memory page file. When it restarts, go through the same steps and turn it back on.

Another little tip is to turn on Task Manager. Under view, go select columns. Check the virtual memory checkbox. This will allow you to see how much virtual memory each process is sucking up, might tell you if there's a memory leak somewhere.

Derek Brown

Couldn't find the "No paging file" bit.

On the Advanced Tab of Performance Options for Virtual Memory it says "Total paging file size for all drives 155MB and there's a button with "change" on it.

On the Visual Effects Tab, there's 4 check boxes
"Let windows choose what's best for your computer" (Unchecked)
"Adjust for best appearance" (Unchecked)
"Adjust for best performance" (Unchecked)
"Custom" (Checked, although I wouldn't have done that as I've never seen these parts of my computer before! It's like a whole new world in there! All full of gobbledygook and stuff. How the hell do you guys understand this stuff? )

Thanks guys.

Justin

Yep, sorry. "Change" is what you click on to set the paging file.

But the bold bit is a bit weird, only 155MB. Think that's why your getting the low virtual memory messages.

Derek Brown

So, should I change it or do what you said in the first place? Thanks for your help, Justin.

Justin

With 512MB RAM, the ideal virtual memory setting should be:
Initial: 768MB
Max: 1536MB

So try setting that

Just make sure you have enough free space on C:\ drive

Hopefully that should do.

Derek Brown

Justin

Cool, so yeah. Just try to increase the paging file size for virtual memory to those values above. And then use Task manager to monitor the virtual memory use and see if those low virtual memory messages still come up.

Derek Brown

Thanks, mate. You're a star. All done as instructed so I'll wait and see what happens.

Thanks again.

zing

Er, yes, I want to block messengers

Mihajlovic

U-torrent 1.7.7.

Im just downloading something from U-torrent and the download connection is ca. 60kB/s. However, there is a red exclamation mark symbol on which says

“Not connectable. A firewall/router is limiting your network traffic. You need to open up a port so others can connect to you”

What does that mean?

When I go to the uTorrent Speed Guide my Current Port is 43301. When I click on “Test if port is forwarded properly” it says

“Error! Port 43301 does not appear to be open.

Please see www.portforward.com for more information about how to map a port.”

I went to that website but I haven’t got a clue what to do next. Any ideas??

Cupid Stunt

Do these tips, worked for me. I think changing the port to 45682 aswell the other tweaks really did the trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq2GkzNrY8

brophs

So we've upgraded to WMP11. Problem is it is now refusing to play Dvds. I have downloaded(and installed/reinstalled K-Lite Codecs 3.95). The Player hangs when I click play, seems to freeze, then closes, and gives me the following message. Any ideas anyone?

Wit Tanker

I had the same problem. Just use VLC player or GOM player, they are best in business. Will play any video without any fuss.

VidaRed

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/

get the free download.

brophs

Yeah, that's what we have been doing. It just annoys me that it isn't working.

Cheers, but they are standard DVDs and not DivX that are causing the problem.

Wit Tanker

Since yesterday, my computer has gone quite slow, and i have started geting some pop ups as well. Now i have AVG security installed. I ran a full scan, but it doesnt pickup anything suspicious.
Any of you know whats going on there?

ZIDANE

Could be anything.

Have you tried other Adaware or Spyware products besides AVG. One program won't pick up everything all the time. Adaware or Spybot are two names of programs I have used before.

Sparky19

OMFG

so my pc gave me the blue screen of death and my dad told me that he knew a guy who could fix it and he gave it to him turns out this guy is the head of Microsoft in Ireland, that bastard is gonna find all my illegal programs and shit

rimaldo

that sucks, if he likes the picture of me in the buff that you had set to the desktop forward him my details.

Sparky19

will do, he actually just rang me there and reckons he can do a full restore and still be able to keep my documents, dosnt bother me as im getting a mac in 3 weeks and giving this piece of shit to my brother

rimaldo

cool, details forwarding still applies there too.