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  2. ReadyBoost - Wikipedia

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    The minimum cache size is 250 MB. In Vista or with FAT32 formatting of the drive, the maximum is 4 GB. In Windows 7 or later with NTFS or exFAT formatting, the maximum cache size is 32 GB per device. Windows Vista allows only one device to be used, while Windows 7 allows multiple caches, one per device, up to a total of 256 GB. [5]

  3. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    JP Software's 4DOS command line processor supports drive letters beyond Z: in general, but since some of the letters clash with syntactical extensions of this command line processor, they need to be escaped in order to use them as drive letters. Windows 9x (MS-DOS 7.0/MS-DOS 7.1) added support for LASTDRIVE=32 and LASTDRIVEHIGH=32 as well.

  4. Process control block - Wikipedia

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    Program Counter (PC) – a pointer to the address of the next instruction to be executed for this process; CPU Registers – register set where process needs to be stored for execution for running state; CPU Scheduling Information – information scheduling CPU time; Memory Management Information – page table, memory limits, segment table;

  5. Process state - Wikipedia

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    A "ready" or "waiting" process has been loaded into main memory and is awaiting execution on a CPU (to be context switched onto the CPU by the dispatcher, or short-term scheduler). There may be many "ready" processes at any one point of the system's execution—for example, in a one-processor system, only one process can be executing at any one ...

  6. AMD vows to fix Ryzen processor slowdowns on Windows 11 - AOL

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    Installing Windows 11 might make the apps on your AMD-powered computer slower, the chipmaker has warned.

  7. Task Manager (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Task Manager, previously known as Windows Task Manager, is a task manager, system monitor, and startup manager included with Microsoft Windows systems. It provides information about computer performance and running software, including names of running processes, CPU and GPU load, commit charge, I/O details, logged-in users, and Windows services.

  8. Advanced Power Management - Wikipedia

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    APM Enabled: The computer is powered on, and APM is controlling device power management as needed. APM Standby: Most devices are in their low-power state, the CPU is slowed or stopped, and the system state is saved. The computer can be returned to its former state quickly (in response to activity such as the user pressing a key on the keyboard).

  9. Computer security compromised by hardware failure - Wikipedia

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    Below, the figure shows the hierarchy between the processor and the memory. First the processor looks for data in the cache L1, then L2, then in the memory. Processor cache hierarchy. When the data is not where the processor is looking for, it is called a cache-miss. Below, pictures show how the processor fetch data when there are two cache levels.