Application popup: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low ....

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MorinK

Hello,

I work for a public school system running both Windows XP Pro (SP2) and
Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) PCs. I have a strange problem that started around
12/13/07 on only my Windows 2000 PCs and has been intermittently happening on
most if not all of my 2000 PCs.

The user gets a popup message on the screen "Virtual Memory Minimum Too
Low: Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of
your virtual memory paging file". They just click on the OK button and it
goes away and they continue to work. All these PCs have been running very
well until aroung 12/13/07. I am running a WSUS server and just so happens
that seven Windows 2000 updates where pushed out to the PCs (coincidence ?).
My Windows XP PCs are not experiencing this problem.

Could one of these updates have caused this ? I did nothing to these PCs
before the updates and they were all running fine. I checked the Event
Viewer on multiple 2000 PCs and they all started experiencing the popup
messages around the time of the updates. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Kurt ....








 
What are the settings? Is disk space low? I'd look at the pc total RAM and
also Task Manager|Processes tab for clues.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"MorinK" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I work for a public school system running both Windows XP Pro (SP2) and
> Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) PCs. I have a strange problem that started around
> 12/13/07 on only my Windows 2000 PCs and has been intermittently happening
> on
> most if not all of my 2000 PCs.
>
> The user gets a popup message on the screen "Virtual Memory Minimum Too
> Low: Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size
> of
> your virtual memory paging file". They just click on the OK button and it
> goes away and they continue to work. All these PCs have been running very
> well until aroung 12/13/07. I am running a WSUS server and just so
> happens
> that seven Windows 2000 updates where pushed out to the PCs (coincidence
> ?).
> My Windows XP PCs are not experiencing this problem.
>
> Could one of these updates have caused this ? I did nothing to these PCs
> before the updates and they were all running fine. I checked the Event
> Viewer on multiple 2000 PCs and they all started experiencing the popup
> messages around the time of the updates. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt ....
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
 
Re: Application popup: Windows - Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low ..

Dave,

This started happening on 50 to 60 of my Windows 2000 PCs ever since I
installed the Microsoft updates around 12/13/07. Before then no problems at
all with any of my Windows 2000 PCs. They all have sufficient memory and
hard drive space. I am an MCSE myself and are quite puzzeled with this one.
All I can think of is maybe one of those 7 updates did not install correctly,
or is causing some kind of memory leak.

Like I mentioned all these PCs have been running fine until this MS
update. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> What are the settings? Is disk space low? I'd look at the pc total RAM and
> also Task Manager|Processes tab for clues.
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "MorinK" wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I work for a public school system running both Windows XP Pro (SP2) and
> > Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) PCs. I have a strange problem that started around
> > 12/13/07 on only my Windows 2000 PCs and has been intermittently happening
> > on
> > most if not all of my 2000 PCs.
> >
> > The user gets a popup message on the screen "Virtual Memory Minimum Too
> > Low: Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size
> > of
> > your virtual memory paging file". They just click on the OK button and it
> > goes away and they continue to work. All these PCs have been running very
> > well until aroung 12/13/07. I am running a WSUS server and just so
> > happens
> > that seven Windows 2000 updates where pushed out to the PCs (coincidence
> > ?).
> > My Windows XP PCs are not experiencing this problem.
> >
> > Could one of these updates have caused this ? I did nothing to these PCs
> > before the updates and they were all running fine. I checked the Event
> > Viewer on multiple 2000 PCs and they all started experiencing the popup
> > messages around the time of the updates. Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kurt ....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
 
Hello,

I believe the problem is resolved. I appears our network admin updated
the SAV 10 Corp Edition client software around the same time period when I
started having issues. I am closing out this post as I believe SAV is the
real culprit. Thanks for the suggestions.

Kurt ...



"MorinK" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I work for a public school system running both Windows XP Pro (SP2) and
> Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) PCs. I have a strange problem that started around
> 12/13/07 on only my Windows 2000 PCs and has been intermittently happening on
> most if not all of my 2000 PCs.
>
> The user gets a popup message on the screen "Virtual Memory Minimum Too
> Low: Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of
> your virtual memory paging file". They just click on the OK button and it
> goes away and they continue to work. All these PCs have been running very
> well until aroung 12/13/07. I am running a WSUS server and just so happens
> that seven Windows 2000 updates where pushed out to the PCs (coincidence ?).
> My Windows XP PCs are not experiencing this problem.
>
> Could one of these updates have caused this ? I did nothing to these PCs
> before the updates and they were all running fine. I checked the Event
> Viewer on multiple 2000 PCs and they all started experiencing the popup
> messages around the time of the updates. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt ....
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
 
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