Thanks John, belatedly and sorry for that. Cleanup; partition magic,,, I may write you personally. Arlene In a message dated 7/16/2006 8:06:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx writes: Ar19102@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Well, I would rather not mention the amount of sdram but enough to run aol9; > I am getting messages that I am low on "resources" and I just adjusted my > startups with msconfig. Certainly low memory available with 128 ram (oops) > running aol9. But still at times I run 5 tasks at a time and everything is > fine. My c drive was completely full yesterday and now it has less than 1/4 free > space. But my swap file has loads of extra space and that it was I thought > that changing virtual memory would be a good thing to do; or rather, > > can I get some of that extra space that is unused for my swap file, to use > elsewhere as "available memory"(?); > > did I go off topic. If so, sorry. > > ARlene If that is the case, it is not a memory problem you have. It is a low space problem. That requires cleaning out the drive, removing or moving applications to other drives until there is enough space. From then on, avoid saving stuff on drive C: or adjust partition sizes with partition magic, or replace the drive with a bigger one! -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.