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I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT CAUSES VIRTUAL MEMORY PROBLEMS, AND HOW YOU CAN FIX IT OR IF IT CAN BE FIX
please don't post in caps lock its very hard to read thank you.

virtual memory is the page file or swap file you on hard drive.
if you have limted amount of ram the pc will use alot of vitual memory.

the cause of most of these problems is a heavy leaky program
firefox is a massive system hog on vitual memory so if your running firefox shut it down and try ie7
if your problems go away then you know its firefox.

other things and possible fixes can be found here at microsoft but i would tend to think it was a program.

http://support.microsoft.com/search/defa...de=r&lsc=0

if you push ctrl+alt+delete you will call up the task manager
look down the list to find the biggest program using memory
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