Windows tracks Zero / Free / Standby Lists under "Available", you can't separate Free and Zero via publicly available metrics / APIs but you can see it with e.g. Sysinternals Rammap. Even for some opportunistic applications that allocate what they can, unless they use it for cache it will remain zero and can be shared by TPS (assuming small page guest and host backing). The question of course is whether the "random junk" has any significant or even noticeable benefit for the workload :-). I think we are in agreement, both points of view are important and I hope we can find a way to make the distinction and their individual value more intuitively accessible in the future.