Editor's Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...

I have an AMD1000 processor mounted to an ASUS A7V133 mainboard with 500 MB/133 RAM Running Win2000 pro. 2 hard drives... a Western Digital 20/7200 partitioned 15 & 5 with 15 gigs dedicated to the OS ...

Virtual memory, also known as the swap file, uses part of your hard drive to effectively expand your RAM, allowing you to run more programs than it could otherwise handle. But a hard drive is much ...