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The long-running Windows tweak of disabling the page file sounds tidy, modern, and even a little clever. In practice, it is one of those optimization tips that has survived far beyond the era that made it attractive, and it can leave Windows 11 with less memory headroom, weaker crash-dump...

Rising RAM prices have made the case for squeezing more out of every Windows 11 PC stronger than it has been in years, but “virtual RAM” is still not a real substitute for physical memory. The idea is appealing because it can make an older machine feel more forgiving when you are short on...

If Windows flashes the warning “Your computer is low on memory” it’s not a mystery—it’s a symptom. This article walks you through practical, tested steps to diagnose and fix the problem on Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10, explains when the message indicates a configuration/software issue...

I have an HP 8000 Elite with a 500Gb drive. There is a 100Mb boot sector, and I have around 90Gb of data on the drive. I have partitioned the drive by performing a Shrink Volume process on the primary partition, which is now around 290Gb, leaving around 220Gb for the new partition, which I...

Hello, I own a Lenovo, a windows 11. I'm currently trying to fix a problem regarding disk space. I have at least 237 GB and 1.33 GB free, but the C Drive is full. I cannot even play Stardew Valley as Smapi tells me that there is not enough disk space. There at least 56 apps installed on my PC...

When it comes to optimizing your Windows experience, not every tweak is a step forward. While the lure of a snappier, leaner system is tempting, some of the popularly touted methods can introduce hidden instability or security vulnerabilities in the long run. Let’s dive into seven so-called...

Hello all, hope no rules are broken. Windows 10 22H2 - 19045 32 bit, 4Gb memory Ran Chkdsk, DISM and Scannow - all come up clean Increased page file size, increased non-paged pool and services\null increased IRP stack size - resource monitor shows good memory resources Restart usually...

Hi All, I'm having a strange problem I've never encountered before. When I first boot my Win10 machine, I have about 17-18GB of disk storage space. After about 2 hours (often less), my page file has grown considerably to the point where my storage is out of space and my system crashes. A reset...

So back in december I built my customer a new PC. Specs: Ryzen 3700x, 32GB of RAM, Gigabyte B550 Gaming X, ADATA 2tb SSD, 700w powersupply, 8tb ironwolf pro hard drive and a 2tb seagate baracuda hard drive, GTX 1660 super. The issue has been the same and I have changed out under warranty...

Hello fellow windows users, usually I solve those issues by myself but this one is weird. This is my first post in this forum :) Lately I noticed that sometimes when my PC is left alone for a few hours, I come back to many closed\crashed apps for example: Geforce Experience, iCue, Asus GPU...

Hi All, I'm having a strange problem I've never encountered before. When I first boot my Win10 machine, I have about 17-18GB of disk storage space. After about 2 hours (often less), my page file has grown considerably to the point where my storage is out of space and my system crashes. A reset...

How can I recover 15 GB of C: partition ssd space that WinDirStat shows as "unknown" and I cannot access? I know this "unknown" 15 GB is real because Windows File Explorer shows there is an unexplained shortage of disk space. Its 15 GB or perhaps more. I don't have a problem accounting for the...

Hello everyone, this will be a rather lengthy post. Please bear with me, as I don't know what information is pertinent to my problem and what isn't. I have a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop which has been running 64-bits Windows 10 satisfactorily for quite some time now. However, its original 250 GB...

I finally timed it today. Once i hit the power button to login screen was 10.3 monutes. Then for icons in taskbar to showup and wifi to connect, another 3.2 minutes 12gb ram 1tb hdd (256gb free) Amd quad core a10 5750 Page file is 2328 to 3300 (custom) Currently allocated is 2328, min allowed is...

Hi, Getting frequent (every 30/40 minutes) bsod with either UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION or CRITICAL PROCESS DIED. However, no dump files are being saved. Here are my settings: The C:\Windows\minidump folder is present. Have run sfc /scannow, chkdsk, dism all several times. No error reported...

Hi all, I have a MacBook Pro with Bootcamp, on which I am running Windows 7. I've had it since 2011 and think the system has accumulated a lot of junk over the years. My question is this: I have very little installed on my hard drive but the memory is nearly full and my laptop is being VERY...

Is there a way NOT to enable + disable Pagefile.sys through Systems dialog but with a Registry key? When enabling from disbaled state it should take the previously (eventually in the past) set partition location and file size. If this is not possible then pagefile.sys should be set to "system...

Is hiberfil.sys always automatically on the same partition as pagefile.sys? If not: How can I tell Win 7 that it should be this way? Or alternatively: How can I tell Win 7 that hiberfil.sys should be on partition D: ? Peter

Hi everyone, I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like) and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...

Back to running Windows-7-pro. Still more solid than 8.1 or beta-10. I have 16-gigs of ram on the board. Windows-7 sees it, but I often wondered if it actually uses it. I had the pagefile at 12-gigs. So I did a test. I moved 38-gigs from one sata drive to another sata drive. The desktop...