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Increasing memory cache from disk in Win 10

I used to do this in Win 7 or Win XP but cant remember how to do this now in Win 10. I want to increase my disk space to be used as memory cache when my physical memory runs low.

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No that has nothing to do with my question.

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It is page file settings.

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Cliff Galiher🇺🇸

You are looking for paging file. But honestly, changing it since the XP era has been strongly discouraged. If you are paging so much that you need to change it., you need more RAM. Increasing paging just causes instability.

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Yup, I'm already using up most of the 16gb of physical ram I have. Darn 150 Chrome tabs and 8 Excel worksheets.....

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Great, have now found it. Thanks for the baby step instructions :)

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Cliff Galiher🇺🇸

Even if you are using most (or all) of your memory, you really shouldn't change this setting. The default is to have WINDOWS AUTOMATICALLY manage the page file. That is not at all the same as "don't use an page file." Which means even the default will page out as needed when you have a lot of tabs and excel sheets.

Really.

You are clinging to old habits unnecessarily. And likely to your detriment.

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Noted. All probably just play with the settings for nostalgia. Thx for the heads up.

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It's not always a bad idea...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/windows-10-how-fix-sluggish-performance-boost-overall-system-speed-1516413

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Cliff Galiher🇺🇸

Its a red herring (and as an aside, never trust international business times. Theynare as bad as themregister for actual technicalmadvoce and rely on unverified reddit posts to generate advertising clicks.)

In those instances, changing the settings masks the symptom, but doesn't treat the cause. In cases where that worked, every investigated instance ended up being a driver/power savings issue. Disks were going to asleep and took a couple seconds to wake. By forcing paging, disks wouldn't fall asleep, but overall memory performance takes a hit. Whereas getting the right driver actually solves thenissue without excessive paging.

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Its a red herring (and as an aside, never trust international business times. Theynare as bad as themregister for actual technicalmadvoce and rely on unverified reddit posts to generate advertising clicks.)

Really?

Sometimes, but the article is factually correct.

How about this..?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2860880/how-to-determine-the-appropriate-page-file-size-for-64-bit-versions-of-windows

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It sort factually correct. It solves on problem by creating another. It's tantamount to saying that jamming open a circuit breaker with a screwdriver 'solves' an overloaded outlet. Electricity flows and the breaker can't trip... But that is no solution.

As to the article, it addresses a common issue where people are overriding common sense and then setting badblimits. Then crashes were not even getting dumped. If you follow that article's guidance, you at least get a reasonable memory dump if you go rogue. That doesn't endorse going rogue though. It's just a slight safety net.

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