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help needed please
« on: August 02, 2010, 04:43:36 PM »
i have rebuilt my pc from single cpu to a quad with lots more and went up to ie7 now i'm having to learn 7  :( , but folding will not work or even start should i reload it

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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2010, 06:12:41 PM »
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i have rebuilt my pc from single cpu to a quad with lots more and went up to ie7 now i'm having to learn 7

Do you mean Windows 7? or Internet Explorer 7?

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but folding will not work or even start should i reload it


What do you mean? - Folding? 

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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2010, 08:14:54 AM »
thanks merlyn , sorry its windows 7 , and i hope you do not mind me saying , but if you do not know what foldin@home is you should not try to give advice on it because it is very very hard to understand when it goe's wrong and try to fix 


if you would like to read more about it and join the CH team please go to below , pm me if you need any help with it , harry

http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,77650.0.html

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« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 12:38:03 PM »
thank you  all ::)  i fixed it

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« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 01:53:01 PM »
You're welcome? Lol?

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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2010, 02:24:10 PM »
You're welcome? Lol?

no problem merlyn  ;)

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Re: help needed please
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2010, 03:42:05 PM »
Also in your "Specs", What do you mean by "Virtual Memory"? (is it your pagefile?)

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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2010, 08:57:48 AM »
your guess is as good as mine what i mean  ;D  it came up when i ran belarc advisor , i'll remove it

btw , before the upgrade i used to get a popup from microsoft saying virtual memory to low we will increase it ?

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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2010, 12:35:16 PM »
your guess is as good as mine what i mean  ;D  it came up when i ran belarc advisor , i'll remove it

btw , before the upgrade i used to get a popup from microsoft saying virtual memory to low we will increase it ?

I believe the exact message is something like "Windows - Virtual Memory minimum too low. Windows is increasing the size of your paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied." and I think there was a phrase something like "for more information yadda yadda...". In Windows 2000 and NT this was a messagebox. in XP it's a balloon.

Either way, it basically means you are using up too much memory- your "commit charge" is too high, and too much data is being swapped to the pagefile to the point where  the specified minimum size is reached. Usually windows manages your memory settings, and as it notes in the dialogue although you might have some programs encounter issues while it increases the size (since some calls to allocate virtual memory may fail). Usually you'll  be fine.

Personally, I've only seen this message appear when the machine is either badly infected or has way too little RAM (for example, 96MB of RAM with XP or 512MB with vista seems to do it, or 32MB with 2000... I've run systems like that before and that message was my constant companion.
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« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2010, 12:53:18 PM »
thank you BCP , i have never had it explain before so you have helped myself and merlyn understand it , as you say before i upgraded i seen it every month so i hope i don't see it now