With improved background memory management, Microsoft says its operating system is 20% more responsive than before.

Optimizations target 8GB systems with reduced widget footprints and up to a couple gigabytes kept active for snappier use.

Windows 11 still carries Windows 95’s heap manager, recompiled for old apps. Raymond Chen explains EmulateHeap, and how to ...

With RAM prices where they are, a lot of people buying a PC this year are getting 8GB whether they like it or not. Microsoft ...

One thing Windows 11 will do on PCs with 8GB or less of RAM is to only load widgets when users actually open them. Microsoft ...

Earlier this year Microsoft laid out a plan to fix Windows 11, with a focus on performance, reliability, and the overall OS ...

Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting faster and more memory-efficient, but will PCs with 8GB RAM benefit? Here's what users ...

Microsoft is exploring the possibility of displaying memory speeds in MT/s (mega-transfers per second) instead of the traditional MHz (megahertz) units on the Windows 11 Task Manager. This move comes ...

That 10GB of cached memory is there to make your PC run faster.

In Task Manager, I assume the Mem Usage column is the processes working set size, is that right? If so is that the amount of physically allocated pages or is it just how much the process asked for and ...

Windows 11 might be using a lot of your RAM, which isn't a problem unless you experience poor performance. It helps your system run more smoothly.