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Q: Memory is hard drive space that is made to act like memory?
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Virtual memory is a method of simulating?

memory by using hard drive space


Does jailbreaking the itouch make infinite memory space?

An ipod's Hard drive/flash memory is fixed.


What is Hard drive space that acts like memory?

The page file is a part of your system's virtual memory that uses hard drive space to supplement memory. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging


What capacity does virtual memory has?

since Virtual Memory utilizes Hard Disk space it is really only limited by how much free space you have on your hard drive


What memory is in the hard drive?

A hard drive is static or nonvolatile memory.


What type memory may be logically carved out of space on the hard drive for temporary use?

virtual memory.


Should you increase memory for your laptop?

Yes, if it is a hard drive memory, of your laptop is running slow and running out space.


What is Windows virtual memory?

Virtual memory is a way of allocated extra space from your hard drive as RAM space. For instance, if you are running a program which is memory intensive such as Photoshop and you don't have enough RAM to handle all the temporary memory requirements, but you have a few extra gigs of space on your hard drive, you can set your Virtual Memory to 2 or 3 GB's to help balance the load.


How much memory is 320 GB of memory on a laptop?

you will get around 297GB space in your hard drive


What is a Drive Space Usage?

Drive space usage is how much memory used from the total hard drive space. It's basically how many stuff you put into a hard drive compartment.


What is meant by the term virtual memory?

Virtual memory is referring to the RAM and the temporary space used on the hard drive. The other definition is the file on the hard drive used to simulate RAM.


What allows a computer to turn free space on a hard disk into temporary RAM?

I think virtual memory is a place on the hard drive used for memory other than the ram so virtual memory is it.