Hard drive grinding?

If that calculation results in a number more than 250 MB, simply put a minimum and maximum of about 250 MB. There's no point in making your virtual memory really large. It doesn't help the machine any.

When you're done, reboot Windows to restore your machine to working order.

This should solve the annoying hard drive grinding. You should defrag your hard drive once a month and defrag the hard drive and virtual memory using the technique above once every two months or so.

Follow-up:

If this doesn't work for you and your hard drive still grinds, read our How to Add RAM article or try a memory manager so that your computer uses memory better. Check out Memory Optimizer Pro.

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