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Why are apps so slow initially when switch to them, even though I have free RAM?

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Mar 15, 20262582 views
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On my Windows 7 (64-bit) PC, when I have a few resource hungry programs going, and half a dozen others, when I switch to an app that I haven't used for a while, it takes a long time to respond and I can hear the hard drive working a lot. I assume it's getting data from the page file. In Windows Tas…

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Fix for: Why are apps so slow initially when switch to them, even though I have free RAM?

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Windows has to make a tradeoff between throughput and latency. If it kept applications in RAM, even when they hadn't been used for a long period of time, throughput would suffer. The used, but idle physical RAM would reduce the RAM available to othe…

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