It distinguishes between many types of memory, depending on whether pages are in use, can be swapped out when necessary, can be overwritten because they are no longer needed, or free. In reality, Windows 10’s memory management is more complicated than that. That’s one reason why fitting an SSD makes a laptop feel much more responsive: swapfile pages reload much faster. What happens when it runs out of space? It saves the pages of code it’s not using to the swapfile and reloads them into RAM only when they are needed. In my experience, Windows 10 can use anything from 1.2GB to about 3.5GB or more, depending on how much memory you have. Windows 10 makes such good use of memory, its swapfile (pagefile.sys, hidden on your hard drive) and other resources that it is best left to do its thing. When we were using Windows XP and Vista, geeks could improve on Windows’ use of memory. Task Manager can show you how much memory is being used at any one time. Nobody should be buying laptops with less than 128GB of SSD, or a bigger hard drive. Thankfully, that idea seems to have been abandoned. Its main purpose was to fit on tablets and cheap laptops with only 16GB or 32GB of storage. Probably neither of those is still important thanks to tumbling memory prices and the failure of Windows smartphones.Ī couple of years ago, Microsoft experimented with a version of Windows 10 called Windows Lean, but it didn’t use less memory. Another was to enable Windows to run on smartphones and tablets that only had 1GB or 2GB. One was to enable PC manufacturers to make cheaper laptops. Of course, Microsoft had ulterior motives. A laptop that could run Vista well in January 2007 can probably run Windows 10 well today. Microsoft has spent more than a decade making Windows more memory efficient. ![]() ![]() Windows 10 has been designed to run well on most computers, including low-power machines with limited memory, such as the Surface Go.
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