Hi,
if your system runs out of (physical) memory and no process could be identified who is allocating the memory, the paged- or nonpaged pool could also have an high memory load.
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Windows: Using deduplication on a volume
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since Server 2012R2 Windows has the ability to enable deduplication on volumes. This means Windows can find identically blocks on a volume and create references to them. So the block is just stored one time.
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VirtualBox: Boot from USB
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Virtualbox allows to boot from USB. But this feature isn’t exposed to the GUI.
Lets start. First of all determine the physical disk. Open Powershell and query the disks by WMI
PS D:\> Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * from Win32_DiskDrive" Partitions : 3 DeviceID : \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 Model : Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512G Size : 512105932800 Caption : Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512G Partitions : 1 DeviceID : \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 Model : Generic USB CF Reader USB Device Size : 4030387200 Caption : Generic USB CF Reader USB Device
Windows: Setup a WSUS Server for Windows 10 Clients with Feature Support
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in this post I will describe all steps to install a Windows Update Server at top an a Windows Server 2012R2 to fully support the Windows 10 Feature updates.
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Windows: Slow Performance. Windows Update (svchost.exe) consumes high CPU load
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older Windows Versions i.e 7, 8.1 and Server 2012R2 have the problems that an older Version of the Windows Update Agent is installed which consumes a lot of CPU cycles.
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