I have 10 Gb of ram.. is there a point where virtual memory becomes a performance decrease or becomes useless? Virtual memory is a hardware feature, and is required by most (all?) modern OSes. You're ...

Although the Windows operating system has changed substantially over the years, one of the options that has existed for decades is the option to use a pagefile. In the early days of Windows, the ...

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 ...

Virtual memory, also known as the swap file, uses part of your hard drive to effectively expand your RAM, allowing you to run more programs than it could otherwise handle. But a hard drive is much ...