Virtual memory in Windows XP is a simulation of RAM; when your computer runs out of RAM, it will use your hard drive space to simulate however much additional RAM you need to complete your task. Since ...

Do Memory Optimizers work? Memory Optimizers or RAM Optimizers were very popular in the pre-Windows XP days. Their use however dwindled after Windows Vista as the recent versions came with fine ...

If while starting a Hyper-V virtual machine on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 host computer, but you receive the Hyper-V error message Could not initialize memory: Ran ...

Facing a sluggish computer when you're running intensive software or dealing with multiple open tabs? You may be hitting the limits of your RAM. With RAMageddon pushing prices through the roof, ...

Continuing the trend started with Windows 7 of each new Windows version placing lighter demands on the system than its predecessor, Microsoft has been talking up some of Windows 8’s new approaches to ...

As I've noted in the two previous installments in this series, Windows 10's Hyper-V platform is the ideal way to test-drive a new feature update before trusting it to production hardware. If you've ...

Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...

What is the “Disk Cache”? The disk cache is used to store disk information in RAM. Access to RAM is faster than the hard disk, so the information will be available more rapidly. How to increase the ...