I have the beta version of fire fox and when i did a trouble shooting app. Most of those pop-ups which purport to find errors on your computer are scams.
What Security Software do you recommend? In an ideal world, some users may not need a page file. But random, unexplainable things sometimes happen.
Yesterday, I looked at task manager too see why my computer was slow. I closed all my programs out, and the memory usage was still going up. I had to reboot. Leo has a link just a couple of posts above this. That link to another article by Leo has many good procedures to check out your PC with. I would recommend checking with all of them to help ensure that your PC is clean.
Can take some time to run through all of them, but you should then know that malware or a virus is your culprit or if it lays somewhere else.
What would cause a user to have a 68 pagefile. If you buy a new used computer, but put your old harddrive in it, would that cause another pagefile. Trying to figure out if the pagefile. I have just never seen, pagefile. I thought windows could only handle up to 16 pagefile. When using forensic tool kit on a pagefile.
Anyway, on a clean install of Windows, I can go for months or maybe a year or more before this browser-choking thing happens: I sit down with coffee in the AM and start to catch up on email or the NYT, etc. Often, some pagefile. Is there anything to be done about this, short of rebooting often? On a machine with lots of RAM and an almost-full hard drive, getting rid of pagefile made a huge difference.
How about hiberfil. If I never hybernate, do I need to keep it? Thanks for all your work. You have helped me tremendously over the years. Le me explain. Out of college in joined IBM.
After training I wound up in Poughkeepsie NY. In the outskirts was a company called Delaval Seperator Company which made equipment for the farm milk production business.
We sold them an IBM system with 4K of memory. In those days 16K was a large memory I helped them write programs for their accounting apps. One app just could not fit down to 4K. So I figured out the subroutines that we needed and wrote them separately so they could fit out on their disk drive, an early concept then. When the subroutine was needed it was read into a small space I saved in the memory, large enough for the largest routine. It worked! The second most common scenario? The instructions for a complete reinstall are pretty simple: reinstall Windows and then reinstall all your applications.
It varies, of course, depending on how you organize your life. That could be a different machine, an external hard drive, your backup drive, cloud storage, or some other storage location dedicated to the task. When I download software to my machine I currently 1 :. I can also save space in OneDrive by making the folder, or just the file, cloud-only.
In my case, since I have several computers, this practice allows me to avoid downloading the same thing multiple times. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 8.
It might be different yet again by the time you read this. I have some OLD downloads that are 10 to 15 years old, some of those are bough softwares, from now out of business vendors, that I still use regularly. Doing it twice, or more, a year is only for peoples that are doing researches, testing and other things that may corrupt the OS or worst or that demand a clean slate state.
He just said that he, given his very special use of his computer, regularly did clean reinstalls. Not twice a year, no, but periodically is indeed a good idea.
You have great articles, and I read them often. Could you please make them less wordy. I have to read and read to get the answer. Could you just say mostly yes or no and then briefly delineate. Unfortunately answers are rarely just yes or no, and require explanation so that individuals can take the actions most appropriate to their situation. I get that some one may like a short and sweet answer; but the reality is, I am sure there are many of us who appreciate the explanations. It helps fill in the blanks for what is or may be happening.
Now, What about windows set up files. Are there parts of windows that can be archived the same way? Are there other setup files on a machine that might be archived as well. Keeping a machine organized seems really overwhelming sometimes.
I remember my first computer loading dos up and then loading the program you would use, one at a time… No windows to switch programs with, at least not until Atari came out with a better unit and hard drives…. The answer depends on whether you still want to roll back to Windows 10 within 30 days. This is because Windows will delete the Windows. Of course, you still can manually delete the Windows 10 files if you need more space. How to delete Windows 10 files after upgrading to Windows 11?
How to fix this error? Now, this post summarizes several effective troubleshooting methods. Before you delete the Windows. How to back up Windows 11 without reinstalling OS? MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you do that easily. You can only see the file unless you set show hidden items in Windows Explorer. The pagefile.
Normally, Windows stores files, programs, and other data in your RAM because it is quicker to read from RAM than it is to read from a hard drive. Then your computer uses the copies in RAM instead of repeatedly reading the same files from your hard drive. However, when your system runs out of physical memory or random access memory, then Windows moves some data from the RAM back to the hard drive and places it in a page file. This file is a form of virtual memory.
So what is pagefile. It is the file where Windows keeps track of how your computer juggles a lot of demands for memory.
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