PC/Zune Help Please???

[Liberalynn]

My songs for my Zune are eating my hard drive memory can anyone help? I am getting low virtual memory warnings and I assume this is the problem? I have deleted as much as I can from other programs.

I'd just delete the songs off my hard drive, but here's the problem if I do this, it deletes them, off my collection list on the Zune site, and off my Zune. I tried with two songs I bought.
Is there away to delete them from hardrive but keep them on Zune. Would an external memory drive work and keep them on Zune?

Does anyone know of a proven solution to this. I have tried Googling the answer but everything I have read just makes me more confused. I was hoping some kind Duer might be able to help me.

The problem is two fold for me because my sis bought me the Zune as a just to be nice gift at the end of last month, and she even bought me my P.C. when my old one crashed four years ago.

She has been using this P.C. to download her songs from Zune as well, since her P.C. has Windows ME and is older than mine, and can't download from hers.

I begged her to get herself a new P.C. before she bought the MP3 player because I knew she wouldn't be able to download from hers but she didn't listen to me, she rarely does, ;) because usually she is much smarter.

I didn't ask for the MP3 player, but now that we have it, I'd like it to be enjoyable for both of us and for it not to cause huge headaches.I just don't want my computer to crash from low memory. Can anyone help?

[Gore1FL]

1. Not familiar with Zune, but I am with Virtual Memory

The Virtual memory does use the disk. Windows pushes stuff it isn't using to the Hard drive and pulls it back when needed.

The thing is, you can have a massive hard drive and still not have enough virtual memory. Likewise, if you don;t have enough hard drive space, that can created problems as well.

How much Free HD space do you have? You can determine this in "My Computer"

If that is the issue I can probably help yo free some space without deleting anything you care about. Likewise, if that isn;t the actual problem, we can look at other things to adjust.

[Liberalynn]

2. Thank you for responding!

Thank you so much for responding and offering help.

I have a 15 GB hard drive and have 5.42 GB of free space. Is that enough or do I need to clear out more, to prevent a crash of my hard drive? That is slightly more than I had before I posted last night. I took off some programs I don't use very much, deleted temporary files, removed some pics and Word files to floppys and CD's, scanned for erros, and defragged, but this is the most I could get freed.

Since last night I did find out thanks To Reverend Smitty, how to delete songs from my P.C. without deleting them from Zune. So I went ahead and trashed them which helped me discover the songs were not what was eating my virtual memory or my hard drive memory. It cleared up very little space when they were gone off the hard drive, and I still got the low virtual memory error.

I did check out the Virtual memory settings which I had read about from a P.C. World article, and found that it was set to custom. It must have been pre-set from the day the computer was bought years ago, because I never tried to adjust it before yesterday. So as the article suggested, I did reset it to let Windows manage virtual memory. The P.C. does seem slower in responding but so far no virtual memory is low errors this morning. What I don't get is why it just started acting up now after several years of using this P.C. with no problem?

Thanks again for your kindness and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Gore1FL]

3. while 33% is a good amount of free space

you don't have a lot in the overall scheme of things by current standars... Nonetheless, this isn't what is causing your Virtual memory problem--as it appears you discovered.

I would recommend checking to see what the upper and lower limits of your Virtual memory are when Windows manages it. LEt me know what it shows as the max and minimum and then let me know how much real RAM you have.