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Why is unused memory counted as used at the same time?
So I'm regularly using a VM with Hyper-V on my Windows 11 host system (Windows 11 Pro, 64 bit, 16GB RAM, Core i5) without any issues. But since yesterday I noticed that I don't have enough available ...
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My PC reserves half of my RAM for hardware
The problem is basically what the title says. I've been reading a lot of posts where they have the same issue and I tried all the solutions.
These are my specs where you can see I only have half of my ...
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Windows crashes with memory-management stopcode persist through reformat
For the past ~half year, my desktop has been crashing occasionally. Windows goes to a blue screen, with the stopcode MEMORY_MANAGEMENT before crashing. I believe that I've seen a couple of different ...
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What is standby memory in MS windows OS?
I am using windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I need to know what exactly standby memory is. According to the tooltip in Task Manager> Resource Monitor window, "It's "Memory that contains cached ...
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Can bad memory hardware slow down Windows 10?
My Windows 10 is sluggish on a 24GB laptop with an SSD. Often I click on an option in an app and it takes 2-5 seconds to respond. I went through disabling Windows Search and some unneeded Windows ...
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In which "order" does Windows manage RAM?
I'm asking this question because I was having memory problems (BSODs, MemTest errors), which seem to have stopped after I switched the faulty stick from SLOT3 to SLOT4 (as labeled in my motherboard).
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How do I have non 64k aligned private memory space?
In windows memory alignment granulatity is 64K, why do I have 4k on 0x7FFEF000?
Windows 10 PRO, 11763.316
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What are "Commited Memory", "Cached", "Paged", "Not-paged pool" & How They are Different with "In-Use Memory"
I was thinking to add some RAM to my computer as it goes slow these days, so i came to the Taskbar to see memory usage statistics but i had difficulty guessing the real meaning of some memory ...
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Understanding Windows Process Memory Layout [closed]
I find many blogs and documents explaining process memory layout. All of them describe a memory layout of following kind:
But when I look at the VMMap tool in windows, I find pages of stack, heap etc....
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Windows 8 High System Memory Usage
My problem seems simple. My computer is using more physical memory than is actually accounted for in the sum of my programs.
!(Running windows 8.1, latest patches)
I use 7.5 GB. Total usage is 12GB....
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Windows is keeping large files I opened once in physical memory, in standby. How can I stop this?
I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit, have 16gb of physical memory, and I understand why Windows wants to do this, but my specific case is really odd and annoying.
For some reason, on occasion, when I open a ...
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Committed Bytes and Commit Limit - Memory Statistics
I'm trying to understand the actual difference between committed bytes and commit limit. From the definitions below,
Commit Limit is the amount of virtual memory that can be committed
without having ...
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Is there any protection from RAM corrupt in file copy routines (in Windows)?
Recently I found one of my memory stick has bad bytes. Before that I was suspecting different hardware and reinstalled Windows and copyied my files from one disk to another.
Is there a chance, that ...
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High RAM usage/software shutdown at 75%?
How come when my memory is at around 75% I get popups saying that my programs should be shut down, and sometimes they even fail to start when it's at around 80% (even though they would be using 2-5% ...
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Prevent a closed source chosen process from swapping on Windows [duplicate]
When I run VirtualBox If I don't use VirtualBox for some time and then I come back to using it the virtual machine runs very slowly, obliviously all subsequent operation go enough fast.
How I can ...
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