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Why does my Windows install use over twice as much RAM as my open processes? (8+ GB used) [duplicate]
Something I've noticed on many completely different computers I've owned and across Windows 10 and 11 is that my RAM usage never seems to really add up to what's actually being used. It's never really ...
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Custom built PC takes 10 minutes to boot up
I built a music production rig about 3 years ago. The specs are:
Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk Plus.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600
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Browser windows in the background are not getting RAM/CPU to work properly
I use an extension I developed to automate some tasks on certain websites. I need to run at least 40 browsers with the automation extension enabled.
Now the problem is only the browser thats open in ...
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How to decrease a memory in paged pool that consumed by CM31 tag?
My RAM disappears for unknown tasks. I have known that my Paged pool has grown to 582 MB. Task manager does not show which process has consumed this RAM. Poolmon: CM31 = 338 MB, MmSt = 42, CM25 = 33, ...
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What happens when you hibernate with more memory than your SSD? [duplicate]
Lets say if you have 16 Gigabytes of RAM and hibernate when you have an 8 Gigabyte SSD. Since hibernation dumps the ram contents to the SSD, what would happen?
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Memory usage Task Manager
Task Manager is stuck in it's performance measurements. It won't update from the point I get when I boot it up:
In addition to that Youtube video's break due to exceeding memory. So that's why I'm ...
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Is it possible to make the operating system itself use less RAM? [duplicate]
In the same system with Windows installed, if I insert only 2GB RAM card in the motherboard, Windows uses about 500MB right after boot, but if I install 16GB of RAM in the motherboard and reboot, ...
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Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster?
I read in Chrome:
Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster? I thought it'd only free up some RAM.
Chrome version 108.0.5359.125 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10.
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How to reduce WhatsApp Desktop App RAM Usage?
The WhatsApp Desktop App is always open on my Windows 11 machine since it is a major work tool.
The problem is that it is sacrificing 1GB of RAM.
It consumes around 600MB to 1GB depending on its usage....
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Why cannot music files be deleted, moved or renamed if any software is playing them?
While rearranging my music collection, I keep running into the highly frustrating situation where Windows (10) refuses to let met delete, move or rename a file just because I'm having it playing at ...
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Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10
So a program I was running just crashed because it was out of memory, and I was like, that's weird, because the only other programs I have running is task manager and chrome. So I open resource ...
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Why is my account usage taking only half the used RAM?
I've been suffering from this issue for the longest time and I can't seem to find a solution, as you can see, my account is using 31% but the total usage is 67%, and it's worse on startup (using less ...
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Using clipboard in Word and putting Photoshop to foreground results in both not responding for 20 seconds
Edit: I updated thread title and the opening post to reflect new findings.
I'm sorry for returning to an old and already resolved issue but I'm sort of desperate.
I started to experience an issue that ...
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How can I know if the speed of RAM is the bottleneck rather than CPU speed?
I have a lot of RAM, 20GB to be precise. However they are not exactly high-end RAMs.Two of them are Kingston 8GB RAMs with 800MHz speed and the other two are some no name brand 2GB RAMs with just ...
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Windows 10 - RAM usage constantly increases in Paged Pool, but no process is using the RAM
My computer has 32 GB of RAM. The RAM used increases from a minimal amount (<5GB) on startup, to 29 GB before stabilizing. This causes programs (web browser, VM, etc.) to crash for lack of memory.
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