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You have an entire OS running - if you had *nothing* running your system would be off.
Contrary to popular belief, The OS files and services and whatnot *also8 take up memory, both in terms of pagefile as well as in terms of active RAM.
Notice in your very own screen shot:
~4 GB : hardware reserved
~5 GB : in use
Do you think that you can have a system with a lot less running than I do and yet have less RAM for no reason? Obviously you don't, as you're in here trying to figure out what it going on.
Right now out of 4 GB I have 2.37 free - but check this out:
I've got a ton of stuff running - you really think all that will fit in less than half of my RAM?