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Question from Devon: Back in November I bought this HP gaming desktop PC with Windows 11 on it.
I recently started getting a “Your computer is low on memory” warning that pops up on a regular basis. This is my first Windows PC (I’ve always been a Mac guy) so I don’t know where to start to try to track down the problem.
Restarting the computer clears the warning but it always comes back after a couple of hours.
This machine has 16GB of RAM in it and I don’t run that many programs at a time so I shouldn’t be getting this warning. I only get this error if I have Firefox running, and I get it even if there are no other programs running.
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