Jose Hidalgo

I have a drive dock on Win11 and another on Linux, haven't found a way yet to change the manufacturer's assigned name on them yet. File...

Hi guys, here's my issue. I have two USB3 HDD docking stations. Each of them can handle two physical HDDs. In station 1 I have one HDD...

open services and look for 'sysmain' service. stop and then disable this service. restart the system and then check your RAM usage...

I have never seen Windows notifying that it needs more RAM, sorry. Even less with 32 GB. When Windows doesn't have any memory left, it...

Well, it's obvious. By design, virtual memory is there to compensate for an eventual lack of RAM, by creating a paging file on a storage...

@krism But virtual memory isn't RAM. So having a 13 GB file in a SSD shouldn't have any negative influence on RAM usage. :unsure:

I have to laugh, because Copilot proffers a pretty good explanation (I don't accept its info unreservedly, but it's pretty good at...

Thanks guys :) @Ed Tittel , first of all, never trust an AI 😂 Just kidding. About your quote, the "Hardware Reserved" is visible in my...

I also ran into that with my first computer in '92, when typing an 8th page in WordPerfect for Windows 5.1 in Win3.1 on MS-DOS 5 it...

When I posed this issue to Copilot it reminded me that devices can reserve RAM, and GPUs often share memory with the CPU for faster data...

Reading this thread struck an idea in my peabrain, what is the setting/use of the Virtual Memory/paging file? I've left mine at the...

Indeed @Berton , my virtual memory setting is at default, so the system has set it to the C: drive (M.2 SSD), and... the current...

Hi krism. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. The purpose of this thread is to understand what's happening (hence the title), not to...

Hi guys. I have a recent rig (Ryzen 7700 + 32 GB DDR5 @ 6000 MT/s), running Win 11. My task manager tells me that my 32 GB are 88%...