Paging file - What does it do and why did i get an alert message

[MajorFoley]

Hey guys for some odd reason on my friends comp he got this ind of warning message when he booted up something about windows adjusting the size of his paging file when checking it says 66MB. If its supposed to be something lie virtual ram isnt it supposed to be something like 1.5x the amount of ram you got? (like 4gb of Ram be 6gb for the paging file?)

 

[DavidE]

Check the settings for the pagefile using Brink's tutorial below.
Many people recommend using System Managed.
I've been using my own custom settings for years, and it hasn't caused me problems.
I mostly use 1 GB min and 4 GB max, pagefile on the drive. Then, i can see if Windows ever upped the pagefile size for whatever reason (it's never increased for me). If a pagefile is not on the [C] drive, a memory dump can't be created if there is a BSOD. I believe a min 200 MB is required for a minidump. See this tutorial by Brink for a better understanding: [url=http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/132201-virtual-memory-paging-file-change.html]Virtual Memory Paging File - Change[/url] Is 66 MB the min and max ? You might want to look at Task Manager/Resource Monitor/Memory for info about how memory is being used.