How to expand the size of virtual memory in Windows 8 to improve computer performance? Step by step guide

Know how virtual memory influences in the performance of your computer with Windows 8 It will help you avoid slowing down processes every time you request information from your PC.

For this it will be necessary that you continue reading the following paragraphs. This is because te mostraremos de forma detallada el impacto de la VM en la estabilidad del ordenador y cómo se ve afectada la experiencia del Username. 

We will also teach you to increase the size of virtual memory and we will give you the best tips you need to pay attention to to get the most out of W8 and make it go faster.

How does virtual memory affect the performance of my Windows 8 computer?

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La memoria RAM es el espacio físico que guarda información volátil para que be usada por el sistema operativo y los programas en uso and in this way improve the user experience. But you should not forget that to make the most of your computer's performance, you need to have the best and most optimal memory management inside your Windows 8 PC (because of this, current computers bring more and more RAM capacity from the factory).

Assuming you don't have a large RAM storage and you want to play online with very high image quality, you are going to need the W8 to respond to your demands. This means that once the RAM is full the OS creates a paging file in the root of it, called pagefile.sys. This element stores all the information that cannot be accumulated in RAM, because it is full due to the use of open programs.

Virtual memory is the pagefile.sys file in which data that are necessary for the work of the computer are saved so that the PC does not become unstable, but in exchange for this, the slowdown of internal processes increases. Therefore, PC performance is greatly affected by virtual memory.

From all that we can say that, every time you interact with your computer and open programs, the RAM stores information so you can use it as quickly as possible through the processor. Once this memory is full, enable the OS virtual memory management technique and that meets (to a certain extent) the user's demands, decreasing computer performance so that all the tasks requested by the operator can be carried out.

Learn step by step how to increase the default size of Windows 8 virtual memory

It is recommended that for increase virtual memory size Windows 8 keep in mind the RAM. In other words, you are going to have to generate a VM between 1 to 3 times the capacity of the main memory. Therefore you will work optimally without affecting the performance of the operating system.

In order for you to increase the default size that your PC with W8 brings, you need to follow these steps: 

• Head to the bar Charm located on the right side of the screen. To do this, you must pass the pointer over that sector until you can see the menu. Choose the option Setting represented by a gear icon. There it happened to you, you will also be able to do pressing the Windows key and without releasing it press X.
• Following, you must select the option System and then you must click on Advanced system settings.
• It will open a window called System properties, in which you should go to the tab Advanced Options.
• Press on the button Setting, inside the field Performance.
• This will open a new window with the name Performance options.
• Click in the tab Advanced Options and choose the option Change.
• Uncheck the box Automatically manage paging file size for all drives and head to the field Paging file size for each drive.
• Select disk that you intend to modify and then activate the box Custom size.
• Following, you must write the fields Initial size (MB) and Final size (MB). This is where you are going to consider the RAM you have installed and write in the first parameter the size of the RAM expressed in MB. Later you will have to multiply that number by 3 and add it in the second field. As an example, if you have a RAM of 4000 MB, you should write in Initial size (MB) 4000 and in Final size (MB) 12000.
• When you are done click on Decide and later in To accept.

Tips to get the most out of your Windows 8 and make it go faster

At the same time of modify Windows 8 virtual memory size To improve computer performance, you need to pay attention to other aspects to make your PC work much faster.

We will explain below the best tips that you should consider when making the most of your OS: 

Close programs you don't use

If you want that RAM does not fill up quickly, you must close all the programs and applications that you have open and you are not using it continuously. This will help you free up space on your storage drive and prevent virtual memory from activating, which slows down your PC.

Disable all animations

It is recommended for your PC Windows 8 go faster disable animations you have, for this you must access the menu Setting and choose the tool System. This should go to the option Edit system environment variables. Once you are in this window you must select the tab Advanced Options and click on the button Configuration within the Performance item. Next, you will have to select Visual effects and later uncheck the ones you want.

Remove Live Tiles from Home

Live Tiles are the tiles that appear on the home button and that, sadly, slows down the performance of Windows 8. To be able to see more quickly all the alternatives of the applications that you have installed and organized by categories it will be necessary that you go to the function that is below the home screen of the tiles and deactivate the same.

Defragment your hard drive often

When you save the data on the hard drive these are stored in any space that is empty in the drive, so the processor takes longer to find the data because it must go through those empty spaces until it finds the requested files. Hard disk defragmentation is nothing more than grouping all the information and compacting it so that there are no useless spaces between the data. Therefore the delivery of the information runs much faster.

Disable some operating system services

Services they are small programs found in different parts of the OS and they work with the reference application or independently. These components, if they are not being used they run in the background and cause Windows 8 to work slower.

For sort out this inconvenience you must use the tool Run, you will be able to do this by pressing the keys at the same time Windows + R and later writing services.msc. Next, you must go to the tab Task Manager Services and click on Open services. This will allow you to see a list with all open operating system services, read the description of each one and disable it manually by clicking on the button Disable.

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