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According to Defraggler the page file is in like.... 4 chunks. Some of it's at the beginning of the drive and some of it's at the end.
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Question: What happens on Windows when you run out of drive letters? (I'm not sure of what circumstances would lead to having 26 hard drives and not RAID them, but...)
I don't think Windows supports more than 24 drive letters. (C through Z)
I could be wrong though...
I could be wrong though...
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so it would just fail if you tried plugging in a USB drive or something?
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Update on my hard drive situation: I opened up the case to check the fan dust and saw that one of the mounting screws was a bit loose. I was able to reach it so I tightened it a bit. It's a 7200 rpm drive so I think it might've just been rattling around a bit. The S.M.A.R.T. data doesn't show anything weird so I think that might be it. 
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I'm not actually sure, but unless Windows switches to numbers after the letters are all used up, I can't see a drive being identified. I don't think even a USB stick would work.
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I'm half-tempted to test it out by using subst to mount a bunch of folders. Does subst even still work? I don't know.
I'm curious how that scenario would ever play out in real life. No way to have enough inputs to even make that a problem. I would expect an Excel type solution where the 25th drive is just AA drive or something like that.
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a lot of USB drives on those splitter things?
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Are there any options for running an elevated program on computer boot without the UAC prompt? Google is not being helpful (yes, I know how to add programs to startup. Yes, I know how to run a program as admin.)
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In the Performance seciton of the task manager, there's In use (compressed). What does this mean?
Can you post a screen shot, please?
A and B are still for floppy disks?
That's the rumour from Microsoft.
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While I'm here: does anybody else using the free version of malwarebytes get those annoying "UPGRADE TO PREMIUM!!! REAL-TIME PROTECTION!!!!" notifications that steal focus? I ended up uninstalling the damn thing because they were coming up near every day, I don't use it that much anyways.
I use premium, so I don't get the popups anymore.
Aimee, in this case I have no idea what compressed means. Sorry.
Aimee, in this case I have no idea what compressed means. Sorry.
Windows of the 10 variety has a feature that allows the OS to compress RAM instead of writing it to disk when it run out of RAM. Think of it as a zip file for RAM.
In your case you are using 5.6GB of RAM total 4.8MB of it being in the zip file.
Interesting. Does adding more RAM prevent the compression?
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