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Missing 4GB of Physical and Virtual Memory
Hello.
I run Rainmeter on my desktop to keep track of system performance, and I noticed that my total physical memory has dropped. I have 8GB of RAM installed, and my physical memory used to read 7.96 GB, whereas recently it has only been showing as 3.96 GB. If I check System properties, it confirms that I have 8.0 GB installed, but only 3.96 useable, and task manager reads total physical memory as being 4055. The same is true for virtual memory--Rainmeter used to read 15.92 GB whereas now it only reads 7.92. I don't know when this change happened, but only that I noticed the changed number today when my computer froze which it's almost never done.
Any ideas?
ETA: I haven't opened the case in the last year, so, I don't think its an issue of the RAM being improperly installed (unless they can simply slowly loosen themselves?). And maximum memory on the boot screen of msconfig is deselected.