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I'm thinking of how VM's work but at the level of a regular windows OS process.

The idea is, if I could snapshot and unload processes, I'd never have to quit another app due to using up RAM.

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This is not practical in any of the common operating systems.

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  • could you give me a 1 or 2 sentence "why" or is it too many reasons to get into combined with it being a silly question to begin with :) – Aaron Anodide Jun 11 '11 at 17:00
  • The process will reference lots of system objects like window handles, file handles that you can't persist. Plus there's the issue of any locks that the process might hold. – David Heffernan Jun 11 '11 at 17:13