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Title: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: DeathsDesign on September 25, 2009, 07:24:52 PM

Is there a way around this?  The acer laptop has 256 mb of ram. windows sys info reads it as 196 MB.  I cannot run a boot time scan with out the avworkinitialize error coming up saying I am out of virtual memory.

(Besides the obvious of add more memory, and i am in the process of doing that, just not able to right now but still want to run the boot time scan)

TIA

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: DavidR on September 25, 2009, 07:40:21 PM

For XP (God forbid if Vista) 256MB is really small and an increase to 512 would make a difference to overall performance. However Virtual Memory is different to RAM and this is the amount space set aside on your HDD (swapfile, a.k.a. pagefile.sys), this should be set for windows to manage as that should allocate enough for its needs.

I assume that the missing 60MB is dedicated to the on-board graphics, which further impacts on your OSes ability to work effectively.

Why do you want/need to run a boot-time scan ?
Unless there is a specific issue that can't be dealt with in windows normal mode then you should run scans in normal mode. As another aside, in theory you should bump into the same Virtual Memory issues in normal mode.

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: Pondus on September 25, 2009, 07:40:58 PM

How can I fix "too little virtual memory" in Windows?
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_fix_too_little_virtual_memory_in_windows.html

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: DeathsDesign on September 25, 2009, 09:42:19 PM

Yeah i am going to upgrade the memory, just cant right now.   I will set it to windows managed and see what happens, and let ya know.

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: DavidR on September 25, 2009, 09:54:03 PM

OK, good luck.

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: bobo1 on September 25, 2009, 09:54:56 PM

Hi,
You can manually set pagefile sys to at least 1.5 x amount of ram you have in Windows. Try setting it to 500mb ( 1/2 gig) How much free space is on your hard drive C:/ ? if it is running out then windows will complain!! 20% free is minimum.

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: igor on September 26, 2009, 06:14:51 PM

The size of the paging file has unfortunatelly no effect on the boot-time scanner.

Title: Re: Boot time scan Not enough virtual memory
Post by: DeathsDesign on September 27, 2009, 12:12:45 AM

no luck, just to low memory... thanks for the help guys