My laptop uses a big part of my Memory (physical memory)


  1. Posts : 49
    Windows 7 Home Basic 32bit (6.1, Build 7600)
       #1

    My laptop uses a big part of my Memory (physical memory)


    my laptop uses alot of memory. around 50%. how can i lessen the big usage? i have 2gig ram.
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  2. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #2

    This is normal for windows 7, it uses the memory in order to prevent un needed read/writes from the drive. This is actually something you want with a laptop because unless you have a solid state drive, laptop drives are traditionally very slow.

    I don't understand why people get so upset when their memory is actually being used, that's what it is there for.
    If you open a large program that requires more resources windows will unload nonessential processes from memory to the pagefile while that program is active.

    Windows 7 is much better at managing memory than it's predecessors.
    1 gig of used ram is pretty much expected.
    This is why 1 gig is the minimum required per microsoft's specifications.
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  3. Posts : 49
    Windows 7 Home Basic 32bit (6.1, Build 7600)
    Thread Starter
       #3

    oh yeah. thanks man.! :))
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  4. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #4

    Yep, as Magnuscreed said, this is perfectly normal. Windows 7 manages system memory far better than any previous Windows OS. It uses your available memory to speed up your system.
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  5. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
       #5

    Maybe I should remove one stick of RAM from my PC so the percentage used will be higher. (kidding)
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