What is virtual memory on a computer?
Virtual Memory is the most appropriately available space on your physical Hard Drive used as physical memory. Operating System caches (temporarily saves) most recently used application and os data on that designated portion of the hard drive in a way it mimics physical RAM but of course performance is nowhere near as good as having and using actual physical memory. Your operating system will use even a little virtual memory even if you still have physical memory available. This will occur unless you disable the virtual memory altogether but this is not recommended unless you have abundant amount of RAM, even then, some programs may not function right or at all if you disable VM. Depending on your system specs and the operating system (version of Windows such as Windows 9x, 2000 or XP) and what application(s) you have running when the error message comes up, the cause of the problem could be different. First, check to see what the configurationof your pagefile (virtual memory) is on you
