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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Warlock" data-source="post: 4404619" data-attributes="member: 21215">Aside from the specifics that Redrobes laid out, if you set the Virtual Memory to Max Allowed, you are essentially taking up ALL REMAINING free space on the Hard Drive that the virtual memory is sitting on. That leaves you with no HD space to save new files (or sometimes even open files since many programs actually create a temporary file on the hard drive to "work" in before you save it back to the original).Not to mention, if the virtual memory file is larger than the Max Reccomended (usually 1.5x physical RAM), it takes longer and longer for the computer to read and write to the virtual memory/swap file since it's spread over a larger and larger physical space on the hard drive's platters, since it actually has to USE physical RAM to juggle the virtual memory file in and out, reducing the amount and efficiency of your physical RAM.</blockquote>