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Is there a way to force win11 to use a paging file?
I have a win11 laptop with 2gb ram with 10gb static size paging file on a SSD, but windows would rather run out of memory than use the paging file.
Is there a tweak or app that will force windows to use a paging file? It's not possible to add more ram.
Using chrome (which seems to work the best), I'll open a youtube channel, scroll down a list of videos, open an interesting video in new window, but when I'm done watching the video chrome forgets where in the list of videos it was scrolled to in the previous window, so I have to scroll down all over again to find where I was. I've turned off all the settings in chrome to minimize memory use.
I've disabled and deleted defender, which helped a lot, but it seems if windows would use the paging file I've allocated for it then I'd have plenty of memory.
It's a cheap laptop (not a chromebook), but all it does is play youtube, and a trading app.
All ideas welcome. Thanks!
Hello,
win11 typically manages the paging file automatically, but it can sometimes be tricky when there's limited RAM. One thing I’d try is manually setting the paging file size under the "Advanced System Settings" in the Performance options. Even though you’ve set a static size, Windows might not be using it as efficiently as expected. You can also check if "Let Windows manage my paging file size" is turned off. If that doesn’t help, you could try creating a custom size or move the paging file to a different drive to see if it improves performance. In some cases, tweaking the virtual memory settings can encourage Windows to use the paging file more effectively.
Hope it helps!
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Hello,
win11 typically manages the paging file automatically, but it can sometimes be tricky when there's limited RAM. One thing I’d try is manually setting the paging file size under the "Advanced System Settings" in the Performance options. Even though you’ve set a static size, Windows might not be using it as efficiently as expected. You can also check if "Let Windows manage my paging file size" is turned off. If that doesn’t help, you could try creating a custom size or move the paging file to a different drive to see if it improves performance. In some cases, tweaking the virtual memory settings can encourage Windows to use the paging file more effectively.
Hope it helps!
You can consider tweaking the registry to manage how aggressively Windows uses the paging file. Be very careful when editing the registry, as incorrect changes can cause system instability.
