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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 14 Feb 2010 18:33:13
Message: <4b788839$1@news.povray.org>

On 14.02.10 22:21, GraemeM wrote:
>> Turning virtual memory off in Windows is trivial. I don't think you can turn
>> off virtual addressing, but that shouldn't have an impact on this problem.
>
> I have experienced this with XP (32bit) and 4Gb ram.  The PC ran well for around
> 4 days and then started crashing on start up.  the only way to get it to boot
> successfully was to re-enable the virtual memory.

If you turn off your page file, the system has less memory it can assign to 
applications. Windows does not handle running out of memory very well. And 
again, you turn writing to the page file, you do not turn off virtual memory.

	Thorsten

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