Virtual Memory Explained
If you have spent any length of time using windows you have probably heard the term Virtual Memory. Virtual Memory is exactly what it says, Memory that is Virtual not real.
Your computer does not work from the hard drive where all your programs and data are stored. When you open a file or program it loads itself into the memory and works from there.
Your computer only has so much memory and sooner or latter would get filled up by all the files and programs you had opened. This is where Virtual Memory (AKA Swap File) comes in.
As you open more things on your computer the items that are used the least are temporarily put back to your hard drive into the Swap File until needed again. They information does not go to its original location on the hard drive until it is saved.
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