If the question “How do I increase virtual memory on my computer” is beginning to bother you so much you had to Google it, it probably means you have to upgrade your computer's memory. Not the virtual one, but the as-physical-as-it-gets random access memory (RAM), the one that makes processes go faster (or slower, in your case, if you don't have enough of it).

You should know that the virtual memory is memory that your operating system usually begins to use a little more when your RAM is not big enough to handle all of the computer's requests. In a way, it is a part of your hard disk that the computer begins to use just as if it were RAM. If you're running a version of Windows, it is easy to increase virtual memory. In Windows Xp, for example, you need to right-click on “My Computer” and select “Properties”. You click the “Advanced” tab and then the “Settings” button in the Performance section. You select once again the “Advanced” tab and click the “Change” button at the bottom of the window, and there you have it. If you select the custom option, we advise you to enter the same initial and maximum size for the paging file.