making space on memory

oyster2023 said:

coming with message, pc low on memory

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Senecio said:

Well, I didn't really say what to do next! However, I see you have some other suggestions here.
Something you can try is to stop applications starting when Windows starts up. This is quite safe and reversible if you find it causes you problems.
Once again start Task Manager (right click on the windows icon and choose Task Manager from the list).
This time, click on Start Up apps. There may well be some there which you don't need to be permanently running when using Windows. e.g. Terminal. You can stop it loading when you start Windows by selecting it and clicking on 'disable' at the top. Note that this does NOT uninstall the program. You can still run it in Windows. It just stops it starting up and running all the time in the background (using up memory). It will take a bit longer than usual to start up. You can enable them later if you find a problem.
Here is my startup apps which I have disabled: (you should keep Windows Defender enabled if you don't have another antivirus)
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TairikuOkami said:

That can be caused by a small pagefile or by a memory leak either caused by an app or a driver.
I would start by updating software/drivers and if that does not help, try a cheating by using:

Intelligent standby list cleaner (ISLC) and Reduce Memory v1.6

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TairikuOkami im going to try that thankyou for your input​

hsehestedt said:

@oyster2023,

Just to combine what Senecio and Ghot have stated, if you look at the screenshot that Senecio provided, you will see that the output is already sorted by the amount of memory used.

You can clearly see that the biggest single user of memory is the Microsoft Edge browser. By stopping Edge, you will get the biggest bang for your buck. In other words, that will free up more memory than any one single other thing.

This view gives you a good insight into what things will make the biggest impact and thus are most likely to help you. Obviously then, if you go to the bottom of the list, those would be the things that are going to make the least impact and are not worthy of wasting time on.

You would want to look for recognizable things like programs that you may have running that you can stop. You don't necessarily want to target system processes or things you don't recognize because you may not know how stopping those will affect things.

I hope that this helps!

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hsehestedt thankyou for your input will have another look​

barman58 said:

I use Pro level software for image management and these type of applications are, by their nature, memory intensive. Also the worst offenders in this is the Free software that is provided with hardware devices. with limited memory you will normally be better served by something simple - Windows itself has functionality built into the file explorer that can manage images or many other file types to a usable level.

One 3rd party application I would suggest for image management is IrfanView which is a free management system for images and as it is an older design is very memory efficient - this should allow you to fully manage your images, and includes basic image processing - often better than those supplied with hardware

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barman58​

barman58 said:

Irfanview is a complete package including the ability for image editing in addition to the Image management functions, so it may be an option for short term until you find something more suitable for your needs

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