If the processes on your computer are using most of your installed RAM, or memory, then your Windows 7 computer may lag. Although the operating system does a better job at handling memory than ...

Windows 7 will drive the average PC RAM capacity to 4GB in the next 18 months. That's the conclusion of researchers at the exo.performance.network who are monitoring the ramp-up to Windows 7's launch ...

Editor’s note: The person quoted in this story as “Craig Barth” is actually Randall C. Kennedy, an InfoWorld contributor. Kennedy, who presented himself as the CTO of Devil Mountain Software, no ...

Editor’s note: The person quoted in this story as “Craig Barth” is actually Randall C. Kennedy, an InfoWorld contributor. Kennedy, who presented himself as the CTO of Devil Mountain Software, no ...

The Florida firm that on Wednesday said most Windows 7 machines exhaust their physical memory, and as a result take a performance hit, defended its data and conclusions after naysayers dismissed its ...

Problems with your computer's random access memory can result in severe errors such as the infamous "Blue Screen of Death." If you suspect a RAM failure, test your memory for any underlying issues via ...

Microsoft has been tracking some odd issues that occur on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These bugs are not typically fixed via Windows Update, because these hotfixes should only be applied to ...

Though Windows 7 is much faster than Vista but still, who doesn’t want to increase performance and speed-up operating system. As sometime it can be very annoying when you want to start your windows ...

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, ...

My computer's become unstable, I ran windows 7 memory diagnostic... so it says when I reboot it'll show the results.... ROLF!!!! Funny microsoft very funny!!! so I look it up in event viewer ...

We never ran into this obscure Windows 7 memory leak bug on our final RTM build: If you run CHKDSK using the “/r” parameter on a secondary drive—not your actual ...

For most would-be Windows 7 users, a 64-bit version of Windows 7 is the right move. But if you don’t have sufficient RAM (at least 4GB), or you rely on devices that don’t have supporting 64-bit ...