Why this is important: File Explorer isn’t a niche app; it’s the core of how you browse files, move folders, open documents, manage downloads, and more. If it doesn’t feel snappy, everything else on ...

What’s happened? Microsoft rolled out a background-preloading update for File Explorer in Windows 11 Insider builds, hoping to make it open faster and feel smoother. The idea here was to keep parts of ...

Windows 11 promised a sleeker, smarter File Explorer, yet for many users the reality is a shell that still hesitates on basic tasks while quietly consuming more memory than its predecessor. The result ...

1-2 GB is for low end servers. If you add MS SQL or other database engines, 2-4 GB.

In side-by-side tests, Windows 11’s “preloaded” File Explorer opened slower than Windows 10’s regular Explorer, even on lightweight hardware. The new version consumes extra memory in the background, ...

On my 16GB system that I just logged onto it's using 14.7GB for file system cache so Windows will use whatever you give it. Now what the cache hit % is and whether that reduces the generated IOPS on ...

Virtual Memory or Page File is a type of memory that allows Windows to use part of the storage space a RAM, to improve the overall performance or when there is a need for extra memory. While Windows ...

PageFile is a system file that Windows uses when it runs out of physical RAM or whenever it wants to store something temporary and needs RAM for something else. That said, you can always change the ...