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A few weeks ago I disabled all paging files on my Media Center. I figured that it only ever runs AVG, Media Center, Logmein, Chrome and sundry services to support these and never gets above 1.4-1.5 GB of physical memory used, so what harm could it do? Overall this has worked splendidly, and the lack of drive thrashing is a revelation.
However, Windows insists on popping up warnings about the system being low on memory, despite there never being less than about 450 MB of free RAM. Now I know why it does this, and luckily the popups don't interfere with Media Center (otherwise the wife would definitely have something to say about it!), but every time I drop back to the desktop to do a bit of couch surfing there is a warning dialog.
Is there a way I can basically tell Windows:
"Yes, I know there isn't much physical RAM left, but I'm a big boy now and I know what I'm doing so let it be my funeral if some wayward process eats up all my spare RAM"
You could always consider adding one more GB of RAM. ;-) You have 2 now, you could use one more. – Wim ten Brink – 2009-09-15T21:33:54.250
Yes, but even though the cost would be minimal (£25/$35) there would still be a cost...seems a bit daft for memory that would never be used! And anyway, there is no guarantee that Windows won't still warn that the PC is low on memory, simply because the page file is disabled. – Lunatik – 2009-09-17T08:54:36.210
1Watch out! That memory will be used, unless you tend to disable Superfetch, which makes starting applications much faster. And besides that, memory consumption will tend to grow over years as programs get more features. Last but not least, if you get the warning and run out of memory Windows will automatically close applications. – Tamara Wijsman – 2009-09-19T11:48:51.790