How to Disable memory caching/standby memory in windows 10?
Okay I know this is going to sound strange and I know Im going to get people that will tell me how I dont want to turn off standby memory.
yes I do. don’t tell me I dont.
I have been having several stability and preformance problems related to standby memory slowly growing and taking up space during a usage session, noticeably impacting performance and causing response time lags and even stutters.
When my system is freshly booted up and the standby memory is hardly taking up any space on my ram at all, my system is lightning fast with no performance issues at all, but as the standby memory grows i start getting audio stuttering, video stuttering, and even mouse response lag.
When I clear the standby memory that all goes away.
Please can anyone tell me how do I 100% turn off standby memory/memory caching in its entirety? Meaning yes there will be empty space in my RAM unless an application decides to fill it. meaning applications also dont have to wait for the standby memory to be unloaded to replace the adress with its own memory. As far as I’m concerned at this point Standby memory in windows 10 is just a fancy kind of memory leak.
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We understand that you are aware on how it works with the memory caching and the standby memory. However, the feature to completely turn off standby memory or memory caching is not yet available. To better assist you, we suggest that you post your query to our Feedback Hub. From there, you’ll be able to submit a new issue where Microsoft developers will cater it.
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How to Disable Bios Memory Options such as «Caching» or «Shadowing» in Windows 7?
Since I am getting a Blue Screen at the startup of my desktop which uses Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate, it recommends me to disable BIOS Memory Options such as «Caching» or «Shadowing» but I do not know how to do this. Can some one explain me how to do this? Thanks.
Check with your System Maker (Motherboard Maker for custom systems) Support, their on-line
documentation and drivers, and ask in their forums about any known issues with your equipment.
That advice (disabling BIOS options) is rarely needed with today’s equipment so ignore it for now.
Do check for updates to the BIOS, low level chipset drivers, and the other major on-board and
separate device drivers. See the driver update methods in the troubleshooter link below (2nd one).
Run DriverView — set VIEW to Hide Microsoft drivers — update those without Dump in their names.
Check this thread for information using BlueScreenView, MyEventViewer and other methods
to troubleshoot BlueScreens — top 3 replies (+1 other).
We can analyze the minidumps if you make them available from the SkyDrive or other file
sharing sites (such as MediaFire). If you have problems uploading the minidumps copy
them to the Desktop or the Documents folder and upload them from there.
Zip or upload the contents of C:\Windows\minidump
Also do this so you can see the likely bluescreens.
Windows Vista automatically restarts if your PC encounters an error that causes it to crash.
(also Windows 7)
http://www.winvistatips.com/disable-automatic-restart-t84.html
Check with these utilities to see if any information can be gathered :
This is an excellent tool for posting Blue Screen Error Information
BlueScreenView — Free — scans all your minidump files created during ‘blue screen of death’
crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
MyEventViewer can be checked at the time of the BlueScreen (BSOD) to within a second or
so of the time of the BSOD to provide more information as to possible cause — see TIP.
MyEventViewer — Free — a simple alternative to the standard event viewer of Windows.
TIP — Options — Advanced Filter allows you to see a time frame instead of the whole file —
set it to a bit before and after the time of the BSOD.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/my_event_viewer.html
AppCrashView — Free — a small utility for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that displays the
details of all application crashes occurred in your system. The crashes information is extracted
from the .wer files created by the Windows Error Reporting (WER) component of the operating
system every time that a crash is occurred. AppCrashView also allows you to easily save the
crashes list to text/csv/html/xml file.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html
Hope this helps.
Rob Brown — Microsoft MVP Rob Brown — past Microsoft MVP — Windows Insider MVP 2016 — 2021
Microsoft MVP Windows and Devices for IT 2009 — 2020
Disable windows 7 cached memory (mapped file)
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[Updated] Disable windows 7 cached memory (mapped file)
Is there a way to disable this cached memory, via hack or whatever.
I’ve just searched web and nothing yet, just the kind of «wannabe pro» articles out there «no you don’t want to disable superfetch it will make your ram useless bla bla bla» or «why disabling pagefile , the application allocates hunks of memory bla bla bla»
The common belief out there that the performance benefit is huge with this caching of physical memory , because of «unused memory is useless memory» belief , yes , microsoft said that when noobs come using win7 and vista , and the pagefile stories , i heard it all , most of people say «why would you disable it» , thanks for help , it doesn’t MATTER why , im a PC enthusiast , a tester , i want to do things like this for a challenge!
IT AINT WORKING that’s why , all these things , just hog the memory , i want memory CLEAN for other processes such as games, because one game freezes on me and that’s because windows 7 doesn’t flushes the remaining standby memory , is it 250 or 140 MB , there’s always some USELESS cached(read inactive) memory in there still not getting out of the way
Pagefile disabled
ReadyBoot disabled(not readyboost)
UAC disabled
Simple file sharing disabled
Service mods:
Application Experience = Manual ;;; Current = Manual
Security Center = Automatic Delayed ;;; Current = Manual
Software Protection = Automatic ; Current = Manual
Offline Files = Automatic ;;; Current = Manual
Homegroup Provider = Manual ;;; Current = Disabled
Windows Modules Installer = Manual ;;; Current = Manual
Windows Search = Automatic Delayed ;;; Current = Disabled
Windows Update = Automatic Delayed ;;; Current = Disabled
Windows Firewall = Automatic ; Recommended = Automatic Delayed ;;; Current = Disabled
Windows Defender = Automatic Delayed ;;; Current = Disabled
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service == Manual ;;; Current = Disabled
Superfetch == Automatic ;;; Current = Disabled
REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTION;
Remote Desktop Configuration =
Remote Desktop Services =
Remote Desktop UserMode Port Redirection =
Workstation = Automatic ;;; Current = Manual
MemoryManagement on HKLM SessionManager:
PreFetcher = 0 from 3
SuperFetch = 0 from 3
DisableMemoryPagingExecutive = 1 from 0
SessionPoolSize , from 4 (4) to 30 (48) MB
SessionViewSize , from 30 (48) to 40 (64) MB
SystemPages , from 0 (automatic) to 40000 (262144) KB
Seems that this is in the KERNEL is self , whatever it takes , i want to get rid of cache modified . why does modified not write to the HDD immediately , i don’t care for «fast» access.
I must see both settings in my eyes on my pc , then i will reenable caching if maybe caching is better, if there would be some control over this to set the quota/limit , didn’t yet played with the pagedpoolsize and nonpaged . will try later.
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i read your post 3 times now and you seem to be talking about multiple things ?
exactly what do you want to disable?
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i read your post 3 times now and you seem to be talking about multiple things ?
exactly what do you want to disable?
OSWiz
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mrhuggles
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just lost a ton of text , will explain tomorrow , precious explanations LOST IN 2 HOURS of writting then i post and then «you’re submission could not be processed , logged in before page loaded» 
im writing on another pc , that’s why the login issue, how can i save the text , i have , is it still in the FF cache?
and i got it all fine and shine everything from top to bottom , this is happening regularly , los of forum text gets lost , blizzard forums are crap , those damn edits there don’t apply , lost tons 3 times this week , there isn’t a thing more nerve racking , while you spent writing for 1 hrs at 2 AM.:shadedshu
EDIT: Oh well , it happens to pay off if you have nerves of steel and strong will.
the text is scattered , need to assemble and find it all first, stay tuned tomorrow.
Learned something; never going to reply on threads on PCs except my own, and that cmd program is quite cool !
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See the images, ..»Cached:» or «Standby» (dark blue) , or «Mapped File»..That’s what i want to eiher , lower it , manage it , or completely disable physical memory caching «memory that is inactive»..I would be most thankful to you Wizzard and the whole TPU for this , i was always thingking how to control this since i love to tackle things like this but there was no «hack» or anything usefull on the web , i’ve tried many things my self and still no.
I’ve been reading on wiki also , this mapped files are chunks of data , but how , i disabled superfetch , which most sites and forums already suggested , for example «standby = superfetch» yet standby doesn’t want to go away , these screens are from my pc secondes before posting this thread.
Isn’t TPU creating GPUZ them selfs , yep the admin i know , so why not make a «win7 memory gladiator» or «RAM-Z» (that would be a good name for info tool though) or maybe «Windows memory control and customization tool» MCC-T or how you want to call it without using exaggerations(ultimate,total,domination. that bsware that never works) , that would SMASH those kernel forcables , i want to have my custom control over how windows caches ram and does whatever with it, for whatever purpose.
I know buying another 2 GB ram will save my issue with gaming but that’s not a complete excuse , first , im doing this enthusiastically and i will suppor this thread and offer my help if you guys can help me out , im not hacker on forumz where they talk these hi-profile things (because goofle only finds popular not necessairly useful stuff , i would have to search for weeks , but i already did in a course of half a year) , the second is , i don’t even have resources to afford another 2 GB ram since i already both 2gb 3 months ago , and i don’t have more slots , so 2x 1gb would have to go out and i would have to buy 2x 2 GB .
anyways , how can i help , anything , i would be very proud if i started an idea and then other people would saw and if things move on actually use this results , since i was never able to explain to people how damn MS advertises it’s «memory management» that people on msdn actually believe and thing games will run faster , come on , i saw it first hand , SC2 is unplayable for first minute with pagefile , loading times 10 seconds longer , longer windows logon about 10 sec , people say pagefile is a way that applications allocate their addresses to it but don’t actually use that chunks , that’s MS description and it does not work that way , or another one «pagefile is used when the system is running out of physical memory» this is another false belief , if it would be working like this it would have behaved totaly differently and i have PRACTISE that’s why i see this, why can’t they figure out , the whole web is going on with the same things , will i be one single guy to figure out how pagefile is AGE old tech and it does NOT work like described by MS.
Whatever they do , the method is the same , it’s on the HDD , period , they can do optimizatios , super code duper extra how they want , there only needs to be a few megs on the HDD and the whole game cripples to a halt , and because GAMES are so intensive and unpredicted , they’re fast and need those «inactive bytes» in pagefile lot of times, so it’s a lot of disk operations , ..
Games don’t know what to put into pagefile , what is put is put by windows kernel , it never works like it needs to , sending only the empty addresses to the HDD , no , there is still something in the HDD what game needs , either is a few bytes of text, or a whole file , or just empty addresses that need to be loaded by the process just so it processes the code so it knows it actually exists, or maybe goes through a scan of sort that requires all the ram allocated to be checked and that would include pagefiled addresses empty or not , who knows , what i know is in practice here (but i can prove my self with theory too 
) , and it doesn’t work nearly as how it does in theory. I don’t know how they bench the OS , it wasn’t never made for games and thrill seekers alike.
If this idea is brought up , you can also do (already have multiple ideas) , a feature that would force windows to think it has less memory than really installed , so it would run in a 300 MB mode with all of the ram available for anything else. ..If you install only 512 MB of ram , physically , the windows will run adapted to that amount , as one article confimed , win7 can run half-fine on 300 MB , but of course when you get to this you experience performance decreases and slowdowns..
Explanation of «fast access» (standby») , for a game it is useless , but i don’t mind it being when i only search web and normal stuff , see , the game uses the memory how much it needs, .
We bring all this down to the fact that this memory management on win7 wants to fix the decrease what pagefile made , probably even going to cache the pagefile it self , which is not perfect to say at least , cache will be like RAMMAP explains «mapped file» in parts , ex. we have a cached file in «standby» in physical memory from the pagefile (sounds funny) , so even if you cache the pagefile to possibly help the situation , one part of that example file will still be on the HDD in the pagefile , what microsoft did with win7 was to improve these memory optimizations to help cover the pagefile , but in half , that’s why XP has this problems more of an issue and win7 has like half less issues with lag/unresponsivness , but im damn 10years on PCs, i spot even slightest lagfests.
because i disabled pagefile , this memory caching is hogging up memory for no use , with no-pagefile i gained fast access , i don’t need memory hogging optimizaions while playing games , but i can say it may be useful when multitasking on desktop, might as well be fine , that’s when we need pre-loaded stuff , when you do with a lot of small files and processes , the game as a single process already loads all the data files into it’s one big chunk at ONCE , we don’t need to help it and pre-load stuff that is no longer used by the game , we just want to get out of the game way and let it do it’s own management.
Im starting to think that maybe cache wants to preserve data what the game used and in a previous mission , and dropped it when loading the next one , because games are like this , the game won’t use something it hasn’t already loaded (unless it’s a crappy game) , and if you hog it with usless data , the game in the next mission needs more space for current data , and that’s why i get SC2 freezes only in SP missions after 1-2 hours play , either it’s a sc2 memory leak or cache has to have it’s nose into it , there’s a big thread on sc2 forums exactly on this, but it didn’t got very far, solution for them was «enable pagefile» for me not ,so i got them correct and thanked , and while i agree it is a way but just «unacceptable alternative» for me , but the LAG and PERFORMANCE is ahrg , can’t play like that.
You don’t even know i had an old interspar(omg) PC for like 5 years of hell (wasn’t even my pc) , 3 year ago , it was virus,lag,bsod,overheatin,lag,freezing,right-click-lag,low voltage spikes,shutdowns,lag,parents yelling,saftey catch removed,no power . don’t i deserve some damn lag-free and peace now ?
MRHUGGLES thanks for idea , will try it tomorrow, get up some ideas and interest guys maybe were getting new tpu app
