A salesperson's Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) laptop with 4 GB of RAM repeatedly displays a "Low memory" warning whenever a large CRM database and multiple browser tabs are open. The drive still has 80 GB of free space and a full malware scan found nothing. To eliminate the warning without installing additional hardware, which Windows administrative action should you try first?
Disable the Windows Search service to release RAM.
Switch the power plan from Balanced to High Performance.
Run Disk Cleanup to delete temporary and cached files.
Manually increase the paging file (virtual memory) size through System Properties.
Windows shows a low-memory alert when the combination of physical RAM and virtual memory (paging file) is exhausted. Because the computer still has abundant free disk space, the quickest software-only fix is to increase the paging file size (virtual memory) in System Properties > Performance > Advanced > Virtual memory. Disabling Windows Search, running Disk Cleanup, or changing the power plan may free a small amount of RAM but usually does not stop repeated low-memory warnings during heavy application use.
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