Windows 10: 4 GB RAM - How will it run on Windows 10?

, are you referring to Kernel memory - because that is a special case. I was making a generalization in an attempt to help the discussion about VM's and swap/pagefiles. It was not meant to be a 100% technically correct statement.

 

I upgraded (by accident) from 7 to 10 a few days ago. I am definitely seeing lots of swapping making it very slow, task manager is frequently showing 100% disk activity*.
Tosh r830 laptop, i3 4G.

It might be because the C partition is nearly full (I keep data on a different partition), do you think it's worth resizing partitions?

While I am here, do you think it's worth doing a clean install and reinstalling the programs?

Thanks
* PS I quite like the new task manager

 

What is the size of the C drive and how much is empty there?

If you prefer to stay with windows 10, a clean install will be really good. I prefer a clean install over an upgrade.

 

Thanks
42M 2free

 

I think all versions of Windows are unhappy on a partition which is nearly full.

You may find that a lot of space is taken up by "windows.old" which would normally be created by the upgrade process, and allows you to revert back to the earlier version of Windows for a month.

If you're happy with Windows 10, one option would be to take a backup (in case you later discover there's some file in Windows.old which you need) and then delete windows.old, which may free up enough space without resizing partitions.

A clean install is better, but I've had reasonably good experiences with upgrade installs so far.

 

You mean 42 MB total and 2 MB free? *Think

If I had been in your place, I would have used a 100 MB C drive.

 

Aha, so you got one of those sneaky updates? *Smile

If you're comfortable resizing, I'd go for that. I use external drives for my data as a "data safety" measure. For me, resizing isn't something I enter into lightly.

I would recommend a clean install because you've upgraded from Windows 7. So far, I haven't seen very many systems that actually work right when upgraded from Windows 7. You probably answered your question re a clean install with this statement:

 

OK so if I disable paging, by choosing the third radio button shown below:





Will that also negate the benefit that you and Mystere are speaking of (with regarding to memory management and application loading)? Or does this just pertain to swapping out memory?

 

Disabling the pagefile will impair Windows ability to efficiently manage memory. Some of the memory management features of Windows 10 require there be an adequately sized pagefile. Also note that disabling the pagefile does not disable paging, only one form of it. Overall levels paging may well be higher.

 

Thanks for all the pointers.
42G - well yes, I just like to keep quite a lot of data and I didn't want to fork out for a disk upgrade. It has been OK with Win 7. Oh and because I also (have to have) a small unix dual boot partition which consumes another 15G

I have moved Windows.old over to the data drive (except those files which produced a complaint) which won me about 6G. At first sight it seems better, thanks for the tip

Yes G gig not M meg, sorry, really hdds were that small once. Some time ago (1983?) I worked for this outfit making unix boxes, which had a 10M hdd (I mean M this time) which had 8M of unix o/s and therefore a glorious 2M for data, ie 6 floppies worth. It wasn't a success

 

Good Morning All! *Smile Not to bump this old thread, but I was hoping to get a straight ahead answer of the question I posted just above on post #51. I really appreciate that.
*Smile

 

Personally I wouldn't bother. If you have an SSD it will act just like RAM so there's no speed advantage. And since you have about 7gb of ram you would need much more to make use of disabling the paging.


HTH

 

The advantages of loading an application as needed mentioned in post #51 are unaffected by the lack of a pagefile. These are basic concepts in the way just about any modern virtual memory system works and cannot be disabled. Mystere described the pagefile very well and how it optimizes the usage of whatever memory you have.

Note that by virtual memory system I do not mean one that has a pagefile. You can have a fully functional virtual memory system without a pagefile. It just won't operate with optimum efficiency.

An SSD does not operate anything like RAM. Even the fastest SSDs are much slower than RAM and they work in entirely different ways.

 

On my pc I have 16 GB pf RAM but on my Laptop I have 4GB of ram and it works good so you should be good *Smile

 

Well that was my opinion too, but I didn't want to have blinders on and just assume I'm not affected. I enabled a 1 gb pagefile for awhile, and saw no discernible difference.