What you are describing here really really sounds like you were just swapping. I believe windows calls it "pagefile" or something. You got browsers, VS, a vide

What you are describing here really really sounds like you were just swapping. I believe windows calls it "pagefile" or something. You got browsers, VS, a video and even a VM: all stuff that are famous for eating your RAM. > Left for 5 minutes after which I could barely get a response from any app or Windows. Most probably because inactive apps were swapped out, then when you came back everything had to be swapped in. I don't know the specifics of tuning this on Windows, but on Linux you have the "swappiness" levels, and you probably have something similar in the NSA OS.