Virtual memory in Windows XP is a simulation of RAM; when your computer runs out of RAM, it will use your hard drive space to simulate however much additional RAM you need to complete your task. Since ...

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 ...

Windows memory management is rocket science. And don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Since Windows 7 was released last October I've read lots of articles about the right and wrong way to ...

Do Memory Optimizers work? Memory Optimizers or RAM Optimizers were very popular in the pre-Windows XP days. Their use however dwindled after Windows Vista as the recent versions came with fine ...

Continuing the trend started with Windows 7 of each new Windows version placing lighter demands on the system than its predecessor, Microsoft has been talking up some of Windows 8’s new approaches to ...

If while starting a Hyper-V virtual machine on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 host computer, but you receive the Hyper-V error message Could not initialize memory: Ran ...