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Originally Posted by Baobhan-Sith
Your RAM being at 72% is not an issue. The low memory warning refers to disk space, not RAM.
Because your HDD got way overfilled and most likely too fragmented over time, up to the point where it runs out of caching space (hence the crashes) and where it's probably even impossible to defrag.
Replacing the HDD with an SSD along with a fresh install of Win10 will definitely help a great deal. I'd give it a try, there's nothing to lose as you can still use the SSD with a new computer should you not be satisfied with the result.
I've actually gotten both warnings, hard disk space and RAM space. I'm about 99% the current warnings are for RAM, when the pop up says Close programs to prevent loss.
There was a time longer ago when I was getting a warning for hard disk out of space. That was when I was fooling with my paging file. I dedicated a partition to paging when I got excited about making partitions and trying to "do" things.
This responds to another question as well: the partition is 1.5gb, which I think I saw as a recommendation in the system.
(My former drive space issue was (it's been a while) I think that if I left let Windows manage the paging size or set it myself to or almost to the partition size--I was getting out of disk space errors. So I took it down to 1.3gb and they went away.)
I tried to get the new Samsung SSD yesterday but it's hard to get to the shop in time from work. Obviously I can do it. But I'm tempted to reformat the Hitachi as a single partition. And try a clean install just as an experiment maybe tonight.
(The older Intel SSD is about 75gb. And due to cloning and whatever, I've wound up on a 75gb partition for Windows System on Hitachi. So I could throw the full 185gb or so of the Hitachi at it for a try. It definitely looks like 75gb on either drive is too small. Esp with the new feature updates to Windows.)
I do acknowledge that it's still the old Hitachi. So maybe it's not worth the bother even for a try on a day missing the shop.