How to Increase Virtual Memory Usage

The virtual memory is a disk space reserved on a computer hard drive that may be used as the extension of the random access memory (RAM). Windows operating system utilizes the virtual memory storage if running applications exceed the physical size of RAM. The increase of the virtual memory usage is achieved by increasing the allowed size of the corresponding system file (“pagefile”). This post provide computer support tips to increase your virtual memory usage in windows operating system.

Steps to Increse Virtual Memory Usage

• Log in to an administrator account in Windows Vista and click “Start.”
• Click “Control Panel” and then choose “System and Maintenance.”
• Click “System” and select “Advanced system settings” on the left panel.
• Select the tab “Advanced” and click “Settings” in the field “Performance.”
• Select the tab “Advanced” again and read the current size of the virtual memory in the field “Virtual memory.” For example, “Total paging file size for all drives: 2096 Mb.”
• Click “Change” and uncheck the box “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.” Select the radiobutton “Custom size.”
• Type the desired virtually memory size (in Megabytes) in the fields “Initial size” and “Maximum size.” Enter the same amount of memory in both fields to increase the system performance.
• Click “OK.” When prompted click “Yes” to restart the computer.

How to Change the Order of Preferred Networks

This post provide windows xp tech support to Change the order in which Windows XP will attempt to automatically connect to preferred wireless networks.

Windows XP may automatically connect to preferred networks unless you have configured a network in Windows XP for on-demand connection only. If you have several preferred networks and wish one of them to take higher priority over another one if multiple are in range, perform the following tip:

1. Right-click on the wireless network icon in the Windows Taskbar and choose “View Available Wireless Networks”.

If this icon is not available, re-enable the network icon in the System Tray area of the Windows XP Taskbar.

2. When the “Wireless Network Connection” window appears, click “Change the order of preferred networks”.

3. The “Wireless Network Connection Properties” or similar dialog box should appear. Note that if “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings” is unchecked, you may not be able to use this tip – refer to your proprietary wireless network connection software.

4. Underneath “Preferred networks”, click on a network and then the “Move up” button to make connecting to it a higher priority, or click the “Move down” button to give the network a lower priority.

5. When done, click “OK” to close the wireless network connection properties dialog box.

How to Remove Quick Launch Icon

This post provides operating system support to Delete shortcuts on the Windows XP Taskbar to software programs you rarely access.

The Quick Launch area on the left side of the Windows XP Taskbar displays links to programs such as Internet Explorer and other software you may frequently use. However, as you install more software on your system, icons to programs may appear that you rarely ever access. If these are clogging up the Quick Launch area, you can delete a shortcut icon by right-clicking it and choosing “Delete”.

Note that if you have a lot of icons, you’ll need to click on the double-arrow button on the right side of the Quick Launch area to view them all. You can delete icons here by right-clicking them and selecting “Delete” as well.

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How to Manually scan your Windows XP hard drive errors

Hard drives eventually go bad. Sometimes it is due to age, sometimes due to bad craftsmanship, and other times due to random errors. To help keep your files and Windows XP software free from crashes and other miscellaneous computer problems, it is a good idea to scan your hard drives for errors from time to time. This post provide PC repair tips to check Windows XP hard Drive erro.Luckily this is easy to do.

1. Double-click “My Computer” on the desktop.

2. Now, right-click on a drive that you want to check for errors and choose “Properties”.

3. When the “Properties” multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the “Tools” tab.

4. Underneath “Error-checking”, click the “Check Now” button.

5. A new dialog box will appear, asking you for check disk options. Normally, Windows XP will just scan a drive for errors and report the results. However, if you check “Automatically fix file system errors”, it will attempt to fix the problems. Also, Windows XP normally does a quick scan of the file system that discovers the majority of errors. However, to do a deeper file system scan, click “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors”.

6. When you are done making your selections, click the “Start” button. The disk checking will go in phases. If there are problems, Windows XP will notify you.