"Your computer is low on memory" when its clearly not

Hello everybody,

same here... win8.1 64bit... but the post above solved my problem!!!

Thanks a lot!!

Add this to the list of problems Microsoft probably won;t ever fix, like the bug I have been reporting via this forum and others where the thumbs.db file in the most recently accessed directory containing the file remains "open" and locked so you cannot delete it or the  directory containing it until you go to another directory that contains a thumbs.db file.  When I am cleaning up my photo directories this bug is a nightmare.  I have been reporting this bug since it first appeared in Windows Vista.  I have been promised by Microsoft techs it would be fixed in the next service pack for Windows 7. It was not and has existed in every version of Windows Since Vista.

There's no good reason for thumbs DB nowadays. The speedup is only necessary on very slow external drives, and in these cases it's usually not appreciated that the mere act of connecting the drive to a Windows system created new files on the drive.

Just curse at the stupidity of MS and disable Thumbs.db, same solution as you deal with the low memory warning (I mentioned how to do that on page one or 2 of this thread).

To turn off the "low on memory" pop up (no issues caused by this solution for 10 month)s:

• See the 5th reply on this topic.

To turn off thumbs.db:

• Ensure you’re logged in using an administrator account.
• Hit Win+R, type gpedit.msc in the Run window and click OK. The Local Group Policy Editor will be launched.
• Navigate through the tree to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > then either Windows Explorer (Windows Vista/7) or File Explorer (Windows 8).
• In the right-hand pane, double-click “Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files”.
• Select Enabled (to enable the disabling)

Do the solutions work? Yes. Shouldn't the system just work without having to disable features? Yes. Is MS support incompetent for not even acknowledging a year old issue in a 9 page long thread? Yes.

Here we have yet another Microsoft absurdity in their latest revision of crapware.

After building a new PC and being denied the use of my purchased Windows 8 product key when I tried to install Windows 8 on it, I was forced to run out and buy another copy of Windows 8.1.  Microsoft later acknowledged that my initial Product Key was valid, but refused to refund my money.

So on this new system, which has only the bare essentials on it I am also getting this message telling me I am low on memory. it says the culprit is the plugin container for Waterfox, which is the 64bit version of Firefox and worked just fine on my old Windows 8 PC with only 8GB of RAM.

My new PC has 16GB of RAM and I am getting this message with only 34% of it in use.

Only three applications running.

• Task manager
• Waterfox
• Malwarebytes

Here are the specs:

   - ASUS Z97 Deluxe Motherboard

   - Intel I7-4790K CPU 4.4GHZ (native speed)

   - CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 1200W PSU

   - Cooler Master 240L Liquid Cooler

   - 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3/2133 @ 2133mhz

   - Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD

   - EVGA GTX-780Ti Superclocked 3GB DDR5

   - EVGA TORQ Carbon Fiber Mouse

   - Logitech Illuminated Keyboard

   - Cooler Master Storm Case

There is no excuse for this.  The Waterfox directories, both application and profile are an EXACT copy of what I had running on the old PC and never had such an error.

Add this to the list of problems Microsoft probably won;t ever fix, like the bug I have been reporting via this forum and others where the thumbs.db file in the most recently accessed directory containing the file remains "open" and locked so you cannot delete it or the  directory containing it until you go to another directory that contains a thumbs.db file.  When I am cleaning up my photo directories this bug is a nightmare.  I have been reporting this bug since it first appeared in Windows Vista.  I have been promised by Microsoft techs it would be fixed in the next service pack for Windows 7. It was not and has existed in every version of Windows Since Vista.

I am slowly transitioning all my work over to Linux and can't be rid of Windows soon enough.  i have been a Windows user since the Beta 1.0 version in 1987.  Although Windows 8.1 (not 8) is finally delivering better than any previous version has, It has always been and will always be crapware.

Here's my error with Titanfall.exe:

Faulting application name: TitanFall.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x53bdb306

Faulting module name: d3d11.dll, version: 6.3.9600.17041, time stamp: 0x5318189b

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00000000000f7274

Faulting process ID: 0x674

Faulting application start time: 0x01cfb4602076d2fd

Faulting application path: D:\Program\Spel\Origin Downloads\Titanfall\TitanFall.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\d3d11.dll

Report ID: cee8ea56-2055-11e4-825b-685d4356cda8

Faulting package full name: 

Faulting package-relative application ID: 

My system has:

Windows 8.1 Pro

16GB RAM

128GB SSD as C-Drive + 1TB SATA as D-Drive

3072 MB GDDR5 - GeForce GTX 670M