Need help getting WIN 7 to use more memory

Is this showing correct?

The screenshot by Layback Bear is not of Task Manager but of Resource Monitor, accessible from the button of that name on Task Manager. But exactly what is it you are concerned about? The original post was somewhat vague and is being variously interpreted. The screenshot above is very good and is close to ideal, except for there being more free memory than I would like. But with 8 GB memory there is little can be done about that.

I added the additional 4gb hoping it would speed up response; my PC response is very VERY slow. Running FireFox that surprised me; I though with the additional memory it would help. I get the message the CPU is maxed out often when I have two sessions open ...

It seems like it's telling me I need to allocate more memory to the process ... but there doesn't seem to be any way to accomplish that task.

Maybe I need to purchase one of those "clean up your computer" pieces of software ... do they really work for this type of response problem: "out of resources" ...?

LMiller7 said:

The screenshot by Layback Bear is not of Task Manager but of Resource Monitor, accessible from the button of that name on Task Manager. But exactly what is it you are concerned about? The original post was somewhat vague and is being variously interpreted. The screenshot above is very good and is close to ideal, except for there being more free memory than I would like. But with 8 GB memory there is little can be done about that.

Kerrigan said:

Maybe I need to purchase one of those "clean up your computer" pieces of software ... do they really work for this type of response problem: "out of resources" ...?

Don't bother with those types of software.

You have something else going on that is causing slow response.

I'd check stuff such as number and type of processes running, what non-Microsoft services are running, what is automatically loaded on startup, etc.

You have over 6 GB of unused memory, so that isn't the issue.

It seems like it's telling me I need to allocate more memory to the process ... but there doesn't seem to be any way to accomplish that task.

The screenshot seems to indicate that memory is not an issue. It is the memory manager that assigns memory where it will be the most beneficial and there is no provision for the user to override this. In this situation it seem clear that throwing more memory at the processes involved would make no perceptible improvement in performance. The reason being that memory is not a problem. All of the signs that would indicate a memory problem are absent.

Maybe I need to purchase one of those "clean up your computer" pieces of software ... do they really work for this type of response problem: "out of resources" ...?

That is unlikely to solve anything and is more likely to cause further problems.