Bought some RAM, now Windows hogging it all

I added 512mb to my existing 256mb...so the total is 768mb minus 64mb for shared video. Anyway Windows recognizes about 700mb of RAM. I have Windows automatically setting Virtual Memory, so my page file size went from about 300mb to a whopping 999mb! Task manager (in XP) shows Windows is hogging 500mb of physical ram, and using 300mb of the page file. I'm stretched for hard drive space and 1 gig for a page file seems ridiculous. Is this normal for Windows to be hogging half a gig of physical RAM and letting other programs use the ridiculously large page file?

I want to knock the page file size back to about 300mb, will that affect XP too much? And where can I find the setting control for Virtual Memory, I have forgotten where it is located.

Thanks

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Well you have 30000000h bytes of RAM like me. I ended up killing the pagefile all-together, and the system runs just fine. At 10000000h bytes of RAM, I'd get an occasional out-of-memory message. Wasn't for lack of disk space either...I just figured no page file would be a clean way to run the system. Those disk-less systems sound cool.

 

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LOL, the solution is to stop using Windows XP

 

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Get the free Memokit from McAfee, works just fine for me. Also, the settings for the page file are located in system properties, on the advanced tab.