Why does closing applications cause your pc to hang more when it is freeing up space in ram?
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RAM isn’t everything. Sometimes the program needs to do a bunch of stuff to shut down correctly, so the program has to wait until the CPU has finished performing those operations. The other thing is the hard drive (which is the slowest part of my computer). If your program wants to save info to the drive, then it has to keep the program open until that’s done. The other thing with the hard drive is that Windows can assign some of a programs’ memory to the hard drive, called virtual RAM, instead of being limited to the physical RAM in the computer. This is useful because you don’t run out of RAM and crash the computer, but it can cause delays when you need to access a program that is partly or completely in virtual RAM, because it needs to be read off the drive. This is less of an issue with SSD drives where the read and write times are much quicker.
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