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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53567

Windows users with 16GB of RAM or more can boost performance by disabling a built-in memory compression feature. This tweak uses a simple PowerShell command: Disable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression (run as admin, then restart). On high-RAM systems, Windows rarely needs to compress memory pages, so the backgrou

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Csimbi · Posted: Wed May 20, 2026 9:36 pm Post subject:

MS keeps adding stuff that cripples the OS itself. Not sure why.
Before you run this, check if it's even enabled in the first place.
On my Window 10, it ain't:

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

disabling memory compression forces Windows to immediately push inactive background processes into the pagefile on your drive instead of keeping them compressed in RAM, which can result in noticeable hitching or micro-stutters when switching back to those applications.

so this is more likely to cause stutters than to get rid of them...

edit: yea, it's disabled on my system too. I will just conclude that it doesn't really make a difference during use.

pexxie · Contributor Joined: 22 May 2026 Posts: 1

I really appreciate this. Thank you. I know a lot about Windows, but never considered disabling this. To me the presence of it screams of Microsoft's attempt at bloatware symptom mitigation. I can only imagine it being useful if constrained either by 32bit limits or physical RAM quantity.