Internet searches on high memory use or high disk use in Windows 10 often reveal threads on a "System and Compressed Memory" process that caused problems for many people in mid- and late-2016 (including at least 5 threads on Superuser). However, I cannot find such a process on my Toshiba laptop upgraded to Win 10. And after checking other Win 10 machines, all I've found currently have only a "System" process--which is annoying since there is so much written on the Internet and there was much to-do (for a time) about the System and Compressed Memory process. I suspect Microsoft has changed the name of this process (back?) to just "System", but I've not seen any mention or confirmation of what happened with this. Can anyone explain?
Secondly, and of more immediate importance to me (if my above suspicion is true) my laptop always shows (0MB) for (Compressed) under Task Manager:Performance:Memory--which is one reason I went on futile safari for the disappeared process. Does anyone know what would cause a machine (Version 1607, Build 14393.567) to do this? All other Win 10 systems I've checked show some, and sometimes quite a bit, Compressed Memory in this location.
Answer
If you want to test if Windows 10 uses memory compression or not, start powershell as admin
and run Get-MMAgent.
This shows if memory compression works or not:
Here it is activated. The memory compression is now shown in a pseudo process called Memory Compression. Run ProcessHacker to see it.
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