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Q: How do you describe virtual memory?
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How do you read virtual memory?

Find a virtual psychic to read your virtual memory.


How does virtual memory work?

virtual memory works just like as temporary memory does


What is deffernce between virtual and physical memory?

The difference between virtual and physical memory is that virtual memory refers to memory space while physical memory are chips like RAM. The memory space for virtual memory is made by operating system when there is insufficient physical memory.


What does the computer use when RAM is full?

Virtual memory, the answer is virtual memory.


When virtual memory is invented?

Virtual memory was invented in the early 1960s


Under Windows 2000XP physical memory and virtual memory are both managed by what?

Virtual Memory Manager


What is the difference between bitween pagefile and virtual memory?

pagefile is the virtual memory


Describe how a computer system operates without virtual memory?

A computer can still operate without virtual memory (virtual memory is just hard drive space that is set aside to allow the computer to swap data to and from actual RAM). It is just that on a modern multitasking system things could slow down if you have a lot of things going on and the system is reaching its memory limit. With virtual memory turned off a system with minimal memory will tend to really slow down a lot. It may not be as bad on a system with lots of memory (like 2GB or more).


What type of memory stores data in a swap file on a hard drive high memory virtual memory extended memory random access memory?

virtual memory


How do you delete virtual memory?

Don't delete the virtual memory. It is essential to the running of your operating system.


What is another name for virtual memory?

Virtual Memory-: Virtual Mem is also known as Swap memory. Swap memory:- Swap mem is the type of memory which allocates by the harddisk in the form of extra RAM for better functioning of the application in the case if you are facing a lack of RAM in order to run that software


What is the use of virtual memory?

Virtual memory is used to increase the size of working memory in the system main memory by using the locations in secondary storage such as harddisk.