How to increase virtual memory (virtual RAM) in windows 10
Q: What is virtual RAM (memory)? A: Virtual Memory is a part of your hard disk or SSD reserved for serving as RAM when RAM is full.
This can be very helpful if you have a small amount of RAM (4GB, 8GB).
Virtual Memory will be useful even you have more RAM (above 16GB) you can set a small amount as Virtual Memory.
Q: How to set?
A:
- Open windows search then type env
- Open Edit the system environment variables this will open System Properties window
- Click on the Advanced tab
- Open Performance>Settings
- Click on the Advanced tab in Performance Options Window
- Now click on the Change button in the Virtual Memory group.
- Uncheck Automatically manage paging file size
- Select C: drive in the next box
- Click on the Custom Size radio button
- Fill both the input boxes (initial size and maximum size) with values from the below snippet. The right amount will be just double your RAM.
4GB RAM - 8192 MB
8GB RAM - 16384 MB
For more than 16 GB you can set any amount 8192 or 16384
Now click OK and restart your computer and you are done.