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Hi all,
Just need to *disable* that warning above and any actions Windows takes because of it. I am NOT low on RAM as Windows indicates, I am only using 3 out of the 4 GB I have. I refuse to use a page file as I have no need to slow my system down to appease Windows. I truly LOVE Windows 7 Ultimate, and since I switched to the official release last August, has provided me with zero issues. I do not, however, appreciate Windows killing my applications when I hit the archaic 75% RAM utilization mark. I have 4 1GB sticks, if I only wanted 3GB, I only would have put in 3GB... It is most annoying because I rarely ever go above 3.3GB used, and I manage my RAM myself via dual monitor and task manager always open.
Many apologies if I come across as annoyed, but I am. I just crashed my VMware server (which will take a good hour to recover), and lost all unsaved progress 4 hours into a game, because Windows thought it important to start closing programs in the background because I used 3.1GB total of 4GB when I loaded a big map... Not huge in the grand scheme of things, but this happens daily.
System spec:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
AMD Phenom II X4 955BE @ 3.8GHz
2x ATI Radeon 4970 1GB (Crossfire)
G.Skill 1GB DDR3-2100 @ 2.1GHz (4GB total)
16GB SLC SSD HDD (system drive)
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 (storage drive)
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 external
Thermaltake 800 Watt Black Widow
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Hey,
Page file does not slow down your system.
To enhance performance, it is good practice to put the paging file on a different partition and on a different physical hard disk drive. That way, Windows can handle multiple I/O requests more quickly.
Check with this option:
Change the size of virtual memory**http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory**
Regards,
Divya R – Microsoft Support.
Oh, for the love of GOD, you're still at it?
Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Computer Configuration
> Administrative Templates
> System
> Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
> Windows Resource Exhaustion Detection and Resolution
> Configure Scenario Execution Level
>>>>> Disable
There's nothing to fix! This is user-oriented OS, so it's abnormal for almost all system memory to be used... or that's MS's thinking. To get rid of it, deactivate it and use some memory monitoring solution (like TweakRAM) to be kept informed about memory usage (instead of a pointless alert). Anyway, most applications, in this case, will crash (Firefox, Chrome) or tell you there's not enough RAM (WinRAR) but it's not the end of the world.
I'm running with 3GB, no pagefile and 256MB for video... I'm still alive. And my OS is working properly.
So, the answer is: Go to windows server
All MS reps mark answers because they "need" the reputation points they get for answering. There's not much to do about it. Welcome to MSocracy!
You can disable the message, you can't prevent apps from closing.
You wrote: Page file does not slow down your system.
If you have 500MB memory, page file is set to 500+30% or so.
If you have 4 GB, then why should you need a page file?
Internet Explorer 9, is unusable, as it uses all your memory for no purpose.
I am constantly told to close it as I am low on memory, so go back to IE8 and no difference.
This is just bugs in Windows, which will never be fixed.
