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QuestionI'm running a hp pavilion 505n computer with 250MB shared ram. My OS is Windows XP home. In January I switched my computer protection from McAfee to CA Internet Security Suite 2007, a free down load from Road Runner. Since the change I gotten a number of messages from Windows saying my virtual memory (VM) is too low. Most of the messages appeared while trying to load a web page using Opera. My VM is 370MB with an initial size of 369MB and a maximum size of 744MB. My C drive has 29,500MB of space available. Should I increase the size of my VM, switch to another security suite, or do nothing? Thanks,

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