{"id":38116,"date":"2026-01-13T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/?p=38116"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:29:14","slug":"how-to-configure-virtualization-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-virtualization-memory.html","title":{"rendered":"How to configure virtualization memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

1. On the desktop, right-click the “This PC” (or “My Computer”) icon and select Properties<\/strong> to access system information. Then click the “About” button.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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2. In the System settings window, select Advanced system settings<\/strong>\u00a0(refer to the image).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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3. Within the System Properties window, navigate to the Advanced<\/strong>\u00a0tab and click the\u00a0Settings…<\/strong>\u00a0button under the Performance section (refer to the image).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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4. In the Performance Options window, go to the Advanced<\/strong>\u00a0tab. Under Virtual memory, click the\u00a0Change…<\/strong>\u00a0button (refer to the image).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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5. On the Virtual Memory screen:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  • If the fields for custom size are grayed out, first\u00a0uncheck<\/strong>\u00a0the box for “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.”<\/li>\r\n
  • Select\u00a0Custom size<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n
  • Set the\u00a0Initial size (MB)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Maximum size (MB)<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a016384<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n
  • Click the\u00a0Set<\/strong>\u00a0button, then click\u00a0OK<\/strong>\u00a0(refer to the image).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    6. Click OK<\/strong>\u00a0on all remaining open windows to confirm. You will need to\u00a0restart your computer<\/strong>\u00a0for the changes to take effect.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    1. On the desktop, right-click the “This PC” (or “My Computer”) icon and select Properties to access system information. Then click the “About” button. 2. In the System settings window, select Advanced system settings\u00a0(refer to the image). 3. Within the System Properties window, navigate to the Advanced\u00a0tab and click the\u00a0Settings…\u00a0button under the Performance section (refer to the image). 4. In the Performance Options window, go to the Advanced\u00a0tab. Under Virtual memory, click the\u00a0Change…\u00a0button (refer to the image). 5. On the Virtual Memory screen: If the fields for custom size are grayed out, first\u00a0uncheck\u00a0the box for “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.” Select\u00a0Custom size. Set the\u00a0Initial size (MB)\u00a0and\u00a0Maximum size (MB)\u00a0to\u00a016384. Click the\u00a0Set\u00a0button, then click\u00a0OK\u00a0(refer to the image). 6. Click OK\u00a0on all remaining open windows to confirm. You will need to\u00a0restart your computer\u00a0for the changes to take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6935,"featured_media":38122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4802,4589,6751],"yst_prominent_words":[2915,66172,1060,1014,1027,66174,670,674,5904,66171,66170,3060,1096,42888,66175,684,66169,661,66173,51012],"class_list":["post-38116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memu-faq","tag-lang-en","tag-memu-emulator","tag-memu-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38124,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38116\/revisions\/38124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38116"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memuplay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}