How to set up the virtual memory of the computer? Is bigger better?

No, it should be based on your actual memory settings, otherwise there will be a return effect. It is generally set to 2 or 3 times the actual memory.

If a computer lacks random-access memory (RAM) that is required to run programs or operations, Windows uses virtual memory to compensate.

Virtual memory combines your computer's RAM with the temporary space on your hard drive. When RAM is running slowly, virtual memory moves data from RAM into a space called a paging file. Moving data in and out of a paging file frees up RAM so your computer can do its job.

The more RAM a computer has, the faster the program will run. If your computer's speed is slowed down due to a lack of RAM, you can try increasing the virtual memory to compensate. But computers can read data from RAM much faster than from hard drives, so increasing RAM is a better way to do it.

If we have enough memory, there is really no need to use virtual memory, and reading from the hard disk is not as fast as reading data from RAM.

Traditionally, many of the core features of Windows, as well as some third-party software, require the use of paging files, and if we disable all paging files, then some third-party software may encounter an error of running out of virtual memory, such as Photoshop. Therefore, no matter how large the memory, if you want to use this kind of software, you need to turn on virtual memory.

In fact, Windows does not use paging files when virtual memory is not needed, so even if virtual memory is turned off, you will not get any performance improvement.

Move the paging file to another disk with a large space to save space on the system disk and reduce disk fragmentation

Right-click on "Computer" and click on "Properties", and in the page that opens, click on Advanced System Settings on the left.

In the window that opens, click on the "Settings" button in the Performance section and find the "Advanced" tab.

Click the "Change" button, in the "Virtual Memory" window that opens, uncheck the box before "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives", then select "No paging file", click the "Settings" button to make the settings take effect, so that the paging files in the system disk are deleted.

Select another disk of the system disk, check the size of the system management, click the "Settings" button, click "OK", and restart the computer as prompted to make the settings take effect.

Setting the virtual memory maximum too high will have an impact on your PC. If the setting is too high, the corresponding hard disk will not be able to store other files except for the content of virtual memory, that is, the content left over from browsing the web. So it's useless if the virtual memory setting is too large, just about the same size as the memory module.

Virtual memory is a technology for memory management in computer systems. It makes an application think that it has contiguous usable memory (a contiguous complete address space), when in reality it is usually divided into multiple physical memory fragments, and some are temporarily stored on external disk storage to exchange data when needed. At present, most operating systems use virtual memory, such as the "virtual memory" of the Windows family; Linux's "swap space", etc.

The method of setting the virtual memory is: right-click on my computer - Properties - Advanced - Performance Settings - Advanced - Virtual memory change - click on C drive - select "No paging file (N)" - Settings", at this time, the virtual memory in the C disk will disappear; Then select the D drive, select "Custom Size" - enter the value in the "Initial Size" and "Maximum" text boxes below - "Set" - OK - Restart, and the setting is completed.

The purpose of virtual memory is to temporarily store data in the virtual memory you set up when the memory is insufficient.

When the memory is sufficient, it is useless to find your memory.

To put it simply, if your computer's memory is large enough and the virtual memory is useless, there are generally only benefits and no harms.

It's not good for your computer, it's bad for your hard drive.