If you have less RAM installed on your Windows machine, then you can increase the virtual memory size of Windows 10/11 computers to boost their performance. Yes, you heard that right, there is a way to use your hard disk or a solid-state drive as a temporary RAM on your PC. The process is very easy to set up, and it works flawlessly. What it does is save a certain portion of your hard disk as temporary RAM and use it for performing all tasks. With this, you need to spend a lot of money on buying more RAM. Since you can expand RAM using the concept of virtual memory in Windows 10/11 PC.
Sometimes there is less virtual memory size on Windows 10/11, and you will get an error that your system is low on virtual memory. Having less virtual memory makes your system slow. So you should increase your paging file in order to use your Windows without any lags and crashes. Today in this post, w will guide you about what virtual memory is and how you can easily increase it on your windows machine.
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What is Virtual Memory in Windows 10/11
Applications and software use RAM to run on your system. However, there is also another type of memory a virtual memory, which is a pagefile that Windows uses to make the experience more smooth and to do tasks that a low RAM cant do. Windows uses some memory from your internal storage and converts it into a temporary RAM. Depending on the software and applications, how much RAM it consumes Windows can adjust the Virtual Memory.
However, Virtual Memory is not a permanent replacement for RAM; if you try to play high-end games on a low-end PC, it will probably crash because Virtual Memory is not used to handle such tasks; it just gives the system some sense of stability. Using virtual memory minimizes the load on the actual RAM, which is very convenient for the user to have a smooth experience on Windows.
