Hi all, My pc was acting up big time so I ran a test and it says Im experincing excessive paging and read everything here on this site and even did a few tricks from here. I was going to reset ie but didnt bother. I have a dell dem 521 with 512 mb ram and according to one of ur articals, I should upgrade. I also have the readyboost-2gb. Anyways, the funny thing is, when i was looking at that test and looked in father it said something about the readyboost being the problem and so I took it out and everything seems to be working good. But just did it today so just wanted to share this and I would appriecate any help before this thing blows up on me. Im on windows vista home basic sp2, I know my pc can run better. Been reading for the last week now and my head is spinning. I was running firefox but it was acting up badly so took it off and using ie sympatico. I loved firefox but was trying to fix this mess. When i switched over it got really bad. so what do u think. thx
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Excessive Paging
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Go to this website, scan your computer and you will know what RAM upgrade options you have. Get at least 2GBs, then your problem will be solved. Trying to run Vista with 512 MBs just does not work.
Well, I'm going to upgrade soon but for now just wanted to see if theres anything I can do to fix it. I dont do much with the pc. Had it for 2 years, and it was working fine till now. I downloaded Advanced System Care and the smart ram reading is...cpu usage- 1 to 3%, free pys-142 of 445mb, free pagefile-661 of 1440mb, free firtual-1988 of 2047mb.
toddyboy, hello. There is no substitute for more RAM, not even ReadyBoost. If you want to share the statistics of your system, use the Task Manager because it's built-in and we all know how to read it. For example, post a screen shot of your Performance Tab which will tell us a lot.
Potential sources of memory use are too many startup programs, many of which remain in memory. Have you cleaned up your startup list lately? You can also disable certain services as described at Black Viper's and reduce Vista's memory usage.
Finally, to check for "excessive paging", launch the Resource Monitor which is on the Task Manager Performance tab. Expand the "Memory" section and watch the number of Hard Faults/sec over time while you use the system. Hard faults = paging. This will tell you which operations cause paging, which processes are involved, and whether or not it is excessive.
Here are instructions on how to make a snip and how to post it here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....replies=16
http://www.howtogeek.com/forum.....?replies=1
Under windows task manager my page file is 1067m/1440m, I seen in other post that this is what u want. I checked my system with reliability and performance monitor and clicked on disk and this was high lighted in red.....Avg disk queue length _ total...mean, 3 with a little red flag, min, 0 and max 15.
toddyboy, please check the *Resource* monitor, not the *Reliability* monitor. The screen shot that whs included is from the Resource Monitor.
Along with the instantaneous number of hard faults/sec as shown in the screen shot above, you want to look at the graph called, "Memory - Hard Faults/sec" and see how it changes over time while you are using your applications.
........ok, hope ya's dont mind me doing this, but how do i get my resource monitor on photobucket ????
Since you have Vista Basic, the snipping tool is not included, you can use this instead.
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