How does Windows determine which pages are moved to and from disk?

[ProfRon]

Windows keeps tabs on your RAM like a bouncer at a party. It watches which apps hog the most space. When things get crowded, it picks the least active bits to shove onto the disk. You know, those pages that haven't been touched lately. I mean, imagine your memory as a busy workbench. Stuff you use often stays right there. The forgotten tools? They get tucked away in a drawer until you need them again. Windows uses this working set idea to track what's hot and what's not. It swaps out pages based on how recently you accessed them. Not the newest stuff, but the stuff that's been idle. If you fire up a game while browsing, the browser might take a hit first. It brings pages back quick when you poke at them. That's demand paging in action. Keeps your system snappy without crashing everything. I remember tweaking my pagefile once. Boosted performance on my old rig. You might notice it when your PC slows during heavy multitasking. Windows just juggles it all behind the scenes. Pretty clever, right?

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