What’s happened? Microsoft rolled out a background-preloading update for File Explorer in Windows 11 Insider builds, hoping to make it open faster and feel smoother. The idea here was to keep parts of ...

PageFile is a system file that Windows uses when it runs out of physical RAM or whenever it wants to store something temporary and needs RAM for something else. That said, you can always change the ...

But wait! You may find the problem eases if you have some extra RAM to hand and you don't need to spend a fortune. By turning ...

Virtual Memory or Page File is a type of memory that allows Windows to use part of the storage space a RAM, to improve the overall performance or when there is a need for extra memory. While Windows ...

This sounds like something that shouldn't happen, but I saw my page file come withing 5 meg of being maxed out when only 150/512 meg of RAM was being used. I have the min/max size set the same. Would ...

1-2 GB is for low end servers. If you add MS SQL or other database engines, 2-4 GB.

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

You would be wrong if you thought .exe files only work on Windows machines. If you own an Android smartphone or tablet, you can run at least some of them. The bad ...

In side-by-side tests, Windows 11’s “preloaded” File Explorer opened slower than Windows 10’s regular Explorer, even on lightweight hardware. The new version consumes extra memory in the background, ...