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Memory compression seems to be disabled - should I enable it?
Hi,
I'm currently doing some maintenence on a friends laptop. I've upgraded the RAM and am also going to put an SSD in there which should dramatically improve performance. (It's only a Celeron!)
Thing is I've noticed that in Task Manager under the Performance tab and Memory, it always says "0MB" compressed. I've never seen it say this on Windows 10 before.
Is this likely disabled by Windows due to the processor limitations, or has it been disabled some way accidentally?
Also if possible to enable it, would you recommend doing so? I've boosted the RAM from 6GB to 12 but wondering if it will improve performance if it stops disk activity with paging. I know in theory it should be doing this less with double the RAM but I just don't know if the compressed memory seemingly being off is causing any slowdowns.
Thanks
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