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Senior Computer Tutor
Don Edrington Helping New PC Users since 1980
Don Edrington
DonEdrington@gmail.com
About Don  (Brief Bio)

Computer Columnist for
San Diego's NCTimes
and The Californian
949-891-1731

Don is sometimes available for Personal Tutoring in Orange and San Diego Counties.

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  1. How to Crop and/or Resize a Photo
  2. How to Straighten (Rotate, Align) a Photo
  3. Be Your Own Photo Processing Studio
  4. Adding Text to a Photo
  5. Displaying Your Photos as a Slideshow
  6. When Multiple Photos Don't All Fit on a Print-Out
  7. Reducing a Digital Photo's File Size
  8. Red X Instead of a Picture
  9. Reducing the File Size of a Video
  10. Copying Images from a Web Site or an Email
  11. Digital Picture Formats (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, etc)

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Irfanview Red Cat Logo Irfanview Image Editing - Another indispensable program we use every day.

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Virtual Memory Question

A reader wrote that she sees a "low virtual memory" message on her screen periodically and asked what it means.

Well, the word "memory" normally refers to RAM (random access memory), which loads a computer's operating system and runs its programs. It consists of chips of various memory sizes, such as 512 MB or 1 GB.

You can run low on memory if your PC has only a small amount of RAM and/or if many programs are running simultaneously. "Virtual" memory is temporary memory placed on your hard disk when this happens. If the disk is already nearly full, however, you can get the "low virtual memory" message.

Considering the huge hard drives and large amounts of RAM that come with most computers nowadays, this problem appears much less frequently than in years past.

The ideal fix is to add as much RAM as your PC is able to handle. Check your owner's manual or ask a technician. Maximum RAM also makes a computer run faster and more efficiently.




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