Tried to watch a video (online) and got a message: low on virtual memory,close other applications and try later. I wasn't running any other applications.
My computer is a new HP pavillion dv6000 w/Vista premium, AMD turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 Ghz with 3072MB ram.
Help...please.

nelbo, welcome! Your new system with 3 GB of RAM should not run out of memory just playing an online video. You might have a runaway task when you see that message "low on virtual memory". Here's what I suggest. Keep an eye on your memory usage on the new system for a while. There is a sidebar gadget, if you are using the sidebar, that will show CPU and memory usage. Load that up and keep an eye on memory. Also, you can launch Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc), click the Performance tab and see what it says for memory usage.

Do follow Lighthouse's instructions and check to see how your virtual memory is set. Unless you have good reason not to, it should be on "system managed".

Write back with your virtual memory settings, current memory usage, and memory usage when playing this video. Also, if you see the warning again post what you were doing.

Ok, first of all go to Task Maneger "Ctrl+Shift+Esc" ,Go to the Processes tab in Task Manager. Here you will see a list of all the processes (applications or parts thereof) that are running on your system. You will see the memory usage here, but in my experience this very rarely has anything to do with problems running low on virtual memory.
Click View, Select Columns.Check the Virtual Memory Size box,Now you have a VM Size column in your Processes tab. Click the top of the VM Size column twice to arrange the processes by their VM Size from largest to smallest.
Now you could see which programs use up your VM ! hope i helped.

@Nelbo12
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