Stupid friggin' emulators... (troubleshooting)

[Sotenga]

What the hell happened? It could just be a temporary computer glitch, but maybe my emulators are shot or something... my guess is that my computer's doing too much right now. One of my family members could be downloading several things on his or her account... look, all I know is that I get this ghey error message when I attempt to open up any version of MAME:

"The paging file is too small for this operation to complete."

What the **** is a ****ing 'paging file?!?' Hey, it gets worse... when I try to open up any version of Kawaks, I don't even get a friggin' error message! It just doesn't load at all, and I'm not even told why!!! :angry:

Could it be that my computer's just working too much? I mean, I'm not the only one that uses this thing, there are four accounts on it, each one for my family member. At least two others are logged on right now. But I sure hope that my emulators aren't shot... anyone care to guess what's wrong here? And what the **** is a paging file anyway? x_x

[zektor]

The paging file is also know as the swap file. It's just a hidden temp file Windows uses as virtual memory. Sounds like you are having some sort of memory issue. Did you scan for viruses? Defragment your HD? I'm pretty sure your emulators are fine...you just may be in need of a clean Windows reload.

[Flack]

Like Zektor said, the paging file or swap file is a temporary file that Windows uses. Sounds like yours might be corrupted. Why don't you tell us what operating system you're running and we can go from there.

I cut and pasted your error message into Google and came back with 36,700 solutions ...

[Sotenga]

It's all fine now, but I'm the only one logged onto the computer right now. I thought it was just a lack of memory, and I was right. Thanks for the confirmation. :)

[ddockery]

Yes, when you get an error message that either doesn't make sense, or mentions memory, the first thing to try is ALWAYS reboot. It fixes probably 85% of the problems out there.