Out of Memory with plenty free????

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/126962

mikepaterson said:

Unfortunately this is not applicable to Windows 10.

Haven't tested it yet but the registry entry still exists.

mikepaterson said:

The Microsoft automated fixit tool on that page says it is not applicable to Win10 when it is run

I'm testing it on the next reboot... Maybe they are talking about the fixit tool and not about the manual registry editing as I do have the problem with the system lagging even with 24GB of memory when I have too many Chrome browser tabs opened which wasn't there with Windows 7 HP even with 16GB of memory.

It's actually Microsoft Fix It that doesn't support Windows 10:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/..._and_uninstall

mikepaterson said:

The article and the manual fix are only valid for XP and NT - looks like this was created to fix a problem that was there until 2003, I doubt it applies to Win 10

I am sure there is a memory leak in Win 10. I know several people with this problem

Not too sure about that one because the registry entry exists in a machine that came with Windows 7 HP and I applied it on Windows 7 and it did work. My reboot ended up in the Start Menu not working so I need to fix that first before actually seeing if it makes a difference as I have 60 tabs running in Chrome, usually when it works, I will be able to open 100 tabs without problems.

fdegrove said:

Hi,

I fully agree that WIN10 can exhibit some strange memory problems.
Even on machines with plenty of memory it may all of a sudden announce you to shut down some apps as it's running out of resources.
As far as I can tell this is not a memory problem, i.e. not RAM amount related as every time I check there's plenty left.

Now, as for the solution? I don't know. Strange thing is it seems to happen on some installation, never on others.

The reg hack is not going to help IMHO as there's no such string there and even if you'd create one it is not clear what figures for heap size to use for xxxx, yyyy or zzzz. Unless I missed something.

What I did discover however is that this problem seems to crop up when the install files are somehow corrupted. Once that's corrected the problem seems to vanish. At least so far and for the few occasions it occurred on my own machines.

Hope this helps,

I have the string in mines but perhaps it's because I came from Windows 7. As for X, Y, Z, it's experimental as you set it too high, it will BSOD on bootup which is why to test something like that, you really need two machines running the same OS so you can import the registry file and fix it before exporting it back. You're not supposed to touch the x, only change y and z and this is a different article that includes every Windows OS except Windows 10... The other article specifically tells you a value for y and z:
For 64-bit operating systems, increase the yyyy value to "20480";
Increase the zzzz value to "1024".

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947246