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ICT-Hotlist TopicHow to check your Notebook/Tablet or Desktop memory in Windows.Is your Windows computer suddenly crashing or programs behave not the way you expect them? The memory of the computer can be the problem. Windows and your user programs are continuously reading and writing to the memory of your computer. If you just (re)placed a memory module (newly produced modules are not always tested) or a memory module degrades over time, errors can occur that the computer can not fix. Luckily Windows has a build in free memory checker that needs some explaining but it works well. How to use the build in Windows Memory checkerMake sure you have saved all datafiles (such as Word/Writer documents, Excel/Calc sheets and PowerPoint/Impress presentations) and closed all the programs as the computer will restart immediately after selecting the default option!
Start the Windows Memory Diagnostic toolThe memory checker reboots the computer so the check can be done without Windows in memory. This way the checker can access all the memory and is not restricted by the Windows memory protection Open the Start menu, type "Windows Memory Diagnostic", and press Enter or type (or copy) the program name "mdsched.exe", and press Enter. Start the Window Memory Diagnostics Windows may ask for an administrator password to start the program if you are not logged on with administrative rights.
Select the start optionClick the button "Restart now and check for problems (recommended)". You are warned to close all open documents. Windows Memory Diagnostics: Restart now and check for problems (recommended) Memory diagnostics runningAfter pressing the button, Windows will restart and Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool runs with the default options in text modus.Windows Memory Diagnostics: running in text modus with default options. Windows Memory Diagnostics: Options screenBy pressing the key F1 you can select additional options as can be seen in the next image. Most of the time the default options are sufficient to perform a memory check. However you can run the check up to 15 times and then press F10.Windows Memory Diagnostics: Options Show the resultsThe memory check results are not shown after restarting Windows as displayed by the Memory Diagnostics Tool but are written in the system eventlog. Open the Start menu, type "Event Viewer", and press Enter or type (or copy) the program name "eventvwr.msc", and press Enter. Starting Windows Event Viewer. Finding the Eventlog entries of the MemoryDiagnostics Locating the extended Memory Diagnostics results.
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