Tag Archives: Memory
I came across this situation a couple of times, where the client was complaining about Outlook.exe process continuing to remain in the Task Manager, even after closing the program. Each scenario was different, but I managed fix ita couple of …more >>>
Here is an interesting freeware app which converts your transparent Windows 7 taskbar into a dynamically changing colored RAM meter.
This post has a quick look at Physical Memory Limits in Crash Dump files for Windows 7 and using the Sysinternals tool RamMap, which can be used to determine the number of physical memory ranges on a system.
Windows 7 reports how much physical memory is currently installed on your computer along with how much memory is available to the operating system and the hardware reserved memory.
Windows 7 has an inbuilt Memory Diagnostic Tool. Most of the time Memory Diagnostic won’t detect a bad RAM. To be honest if you wanted to check the stability of RAM, Windows 7 Memory Diagnostic is not recommend.
Window has a Memory Diagnostic Tool which you can use to check for possible memory problems, including testing of the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer.
If you get a message : Your system is low on virtual memory, when you try to start any memory intensive application, like Microsoft Office, Corel, etc, then this article may interest you.
Microsoft has released a new ‘Sysinternals tool’ RAMMap – an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility.
The Machine Memory Dump Collector in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to collect machine memory dumps from a machine. This diagnostic collects both full/kernel memory dumps (memory.dmp), last five machine mini dumps from the past 30 …more >>>
You may have noticed that your Windows 7 may show that the usable memory may be less than the installed memory (RAM)!
Does Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks really clear memory? Not really! There is a clear misconception on the net that Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks clears the memory and makes the PC run faster!
If while working on your Windows 7 or Vista PC, you often get the message Your system is running low on virtual memory, then you may want to try this.
Limits on memory and address space vary by platform, operating system, and by whether the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE value of the LOADED_IMAGE structure and 4-gigabyte tuning (4GT) are in use.
Different Windows editions have had different upper maximum RAM limits. 64-bit Windows support different amounts of memory as a SKU-differentiating feature, with the low end being 512MB for Windows XP Starter to 128GB for Vista Ultimate and 192GB for Windows …more >>>
