Windows 10: Windows 10 uses only 75% or 3/4 RAM

If you run many processes the memory manager will assign them more memory, even to the point of almost 100% usage. But that would only occur under the most extreme conditions. I have seen this and it isn't pretty. Performance was terrible. Windows will not artificially restrict memory usage. With no pagefile your workload was limited by the constrained commit limit, not by RAM. Giving processes more memory would not have improved performance but would in fact have impaired it.

I have seen nothing in your description or screenshots that would indicate the memory manager was doing anything wrong. What I saw was the memory manager making the best of a very difficult situation that was imposed on it - the lack of a pagefile.

 

@Erez ... @dalchina and @LMiller7 are giving you the straight scoop. There must be some data you can offload to D or E (Still haven't seen the Disk Management screenshot we talked about). The Pagefile needs to be System Managed, not custom locked at 800-800 or whatever you have it set to. Many, many people run healthy, reasonably quick machines with only 4GB of mem. If you have a bunch of pics, move them. Movies, move them. Stuff like that.

 

Turn off hibernation if you haven't done it already , so you get that space on C:\ back and let the system manage the Page file , 800 mb is not enough unless you also have 800mb on D:\ and 800mb on E :\ ?

Move the location of your Libraries (Pics,Movies,Documents,Music) to D:\ or E;\ this works fine on low space OS Drives ie small SSD or eMMC Drives.

Maybe I missed it ?...... we are talking 64bit win10 correct ? if not then 4GB RAM is max supported, so the above ideas are your limited options as 32bit won't see extra Ram even if you buy and install it, you can upgrade to 64bit though...but that means a clean install AFAIK.

Whats the maximum RAM support for Windows 10 Home Edition and - Microsoft Community

 

My system says that 1404 MB is recommended for my C drive, so I set 1404-1404 custom size in my C drive, and yes, I moved all my videos and audio files to D drive and I succeed to free up to 1 GB space. Now I have less than 2 GB available in C. With 1404 MB allocated for page files, only 600 MB is freed now in my C drive *Sad

 

@Erez Good morning! Are you using Fast Startup? Use this tutorial to check if you are. I don't want you to DO anything, just use the tutorial to check if you are using Fast Startup. Follow it thru Option #1, Step #3..... tell me how the options you see compare to the options in the tutorial. Don't change anything, just look. Thanks, TC....

Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

I will try that later. I have many other tasks to do in the next month.

 

That's a pity since it will give you more room on C:\ ...... as I said and F14 is trying too .... ie: turn off the hibernation ...if on.... it's worth 2-3GB.

Hibernate - Enable or Disable in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Thanks @Kbird ... simple command line will do it, instantly.

powercfg -h off

 

Yes , that's how I do it too , the Hiberfil file disappears while you watch if file Explorer is open....

it's actually Option1 in Brink's tutorial above.


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