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Why does Windows only show about 3.5 GB of my 4 GB of RAM?
I recently upgraded my computer's RAM to 4 GB. My 32-bit Windows installation shows only 3574 MB of the memory. How can I make Windows use the full amount of RAM?
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Windows 10 high memory usage (unknown reason)
A few days ago I updated my PC to Windows 10. However, after some use my PC started to slow down until it was impossible to use – it was due to high memory usage. After a restart, everything came back ...
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Windows 10, 'System' process taking massive amounts of RAM
Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my system has been consuming RAM excessively
I've been reading a bit and determined it's likely a driver leaking memory. So I got myself the Windows Driver Kit and ...
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Windows using too much RAM, how to diagnose resource hog
I have 16GB of system RAM. On startup with no applications open except the task-manager Windows is using about 3gb of RAM. I looked in the processes tab, but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. ...
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4 GB of RAM installed but only 2.97 GB usable. What gives? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where did the other .8 GB of RAM go?
I just bought a used MacBook on eBay that came installed with 4 GB of RAM. The first thing I did was installing Windows 7 using Boot ...
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Should I disable swap file if I have lots of RAM or should I move it to a virtual RAM drive?
Imagine I have tons of RAM. Let's say 64GB. That's a lot for even gaming PCs. Now the default location of a pagefile in Windows is on the main OS drive, be it HDD or SSD, which are faster in general, ...
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Where did the other .8 GB of RAM go? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does Windows only show about 3.5 GB of my more than 4 GB of RAM?
I have this system, which has 2 times 2 GB SDRAM installed. When I check the system BIOS it shows as 4 ...
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How do I find what's eating up all of my system's memory? (not SuperFetch)
How does one diagnose/discover memory-related problems, if Task Manager appears to not be reporting correctly?
I must have a memory leak or something -- I'm at 75% usage of my 12 GB of memory, but ...
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Windows pagefile size with large RAM and SSD
I just upgraded my Windows 7 machine from 12GB to 24GB RAM - both for running more VMs and for future proofing.
My C drive is an SSD with 129GB formatted size.
I was surprised to find out that the SSD ...
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How to Check RAM Size without Looking at Motherboard
As far as I am aware, one can view the RAM Size in System Properties:
From the above screenshot it seems that My RAM is 3.5 GB, but as far as I can tell I actually inserted 2 two GB RAM into my ...
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Any reason not to disable the Windows pagefile given enough physical RAM?
The question of disabling the Windows pagefile has already been discussed quite a bit, for example here and here and here. People continue to upvote answers that say "you should not disable your ...
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How to find the RAM type in command prompt?
How to find the RAM type (DDR2/DDR3) of the system using command prompt?
I have tried SYSTEMINFO in command prompt but it did not display the RAM type.
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Available memory differs by several GiB from what is installed
I have recently upgraded a Windows 7 Home Premium PC with 12 GB of RAM. For some reason once I looked in the System tab it said only 7.96 GB of 12 GB of RAM is usable. I have already tried to go into ...
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What is the Optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10?
I would like to ask experts that What is the optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10 and how you calculate?
I know the system says 1906 MB is recommended but is it enough or I should set ...
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What are "Commited Memory", "Cached", "Paged", "Not-paged pool" & How They are Different with "In-Use Memory"
I was thinking to add some RAM to my computer as it goes slow these days, so i came to the Taskbar to see memory usage statistics but i had difficulty guessing the real meaning of some memory ...
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