Usable Ram

Hello, I recently bought an Acer Aspire one laptop with 4GB RAM memory installed. I 've installed windows 7 x86. It says that there are ony 2.6 GB usable. Can anyone tell me what to do. Because, as far as I know win 7 should recognize more than 2.6GB even in 32 bit version. I wouldn't want...

My usable Ram on my new install looks low to me. What do some of you think and if so, why?

I have 4g of ram. In control panel it is listed 4.00gb RAM(Only 2.00gb usable) I have 2x(2g) sticks Memory hole remapping is enabled. Max memory is unchecked. I have an M4A785-M motherboard. I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit This problem started happening a couple weeks ago. All attempted...

It's funny, because ALL of my RAM was usable some time ago. (I have no idea how long ago this was, but it was on the same OS) I am using Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. I know about the whole 32-bit issue where some say you can't use much more than 3GB. Well, I WAS. I wouldn't be writing this...

What's this all about? Last time I checked system properties it said 5.5 GB usable. Now, today I noticed that my sidebar said that my memory is 40% in use and there's only 1.5 GB available. What's going on here? I was thinking it could be my video card taking the memory, but I didn't change any...