It turns out Windows doesn’t always choose the smartest location.

I have 10 Gb of ram.. is there a point where virtual memory becomes a performance decrease or becomes useless? Virtual memory is a hardware feature, and is required by most (all?) modern OSes. You're ...

Those memory numbers don't mean what you think.

Although the Windows operating system has changed substantially over the years, one of the options that has existed for decades is the option to use a pagefile. In the early days of Windows, the ...

Memory can be a tricky term in the computer world. There is random access memory (RAM), and hard drive space is often described as memory. To make things a little more confusing, the process of using ...