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My 8gb RAM lets me use up only about 2gb ram. Please help

Anonymous
2021-09-24T22:22:24+00:00

Right so, This is only a year old laptop and upon booting, my ram immediately goes up to 74%. I checked my task manager and i have almost nothing that is intensely running in the background.
My pc lets me use up only about 2gb out of the 8gb that it has too. So, right now i have my task manager open and i check the "users" tab, my total ram that i am currently using is about 1gb, but the percentage shows up to 80% used. Any sort of help would be appreciated

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-09-26T21:38:35+00:00

    Hello Igor, would you like me to share rmp file while in clean boot or regular state?
    Also, im not sure how to share an Rmp file onto OneDrive

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  2. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-09-26T21:07:17+00:00

    Please try to clean boot PC and see if problem persists.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-t...

    Run RamMap, save data to RMP file and share this file to OneDrive. I'll try to analyse it.

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  3. Igor Leyko 110.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-09-26T10:56:53+00:00

    You may analyze other tabs of RamMap to find what uses a lot of RAM.

    Or try to kill running apps one by one and look at memory usage.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-09-26T05:03:17+00:00

    I see. Is there any possible solution to this issue? Anything whatsoever? It seems as though there is something hidden up thats using up all my ram somehow and i dont know how to get it fixed. You can see my main process tab in the other reply and Im not using anything to hog my ram up.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-09-26T12:05:10+00:00

    Going based on just the commit there, that's like 5GB+

    I would say either way, get more RAM or stop multi-tasking.

    You don't need both McAfee and Avira installed. Depending on what you do on the internet, you don't even need them, and Windows Defender will work just fine freeing up disk space and memory.

    You can also get rid of Razer's software to free up more disk space and memory. I would advise you to simplify here. You don't need the blinky lights especially when your computer needs more resources and anything else you think you need, you really don't need extra software to use a mouse or keyboard or whatever.

    Looks like HP has software on there as well eating up a small chunk of memory. Really don't need that as well.

    You can also just use discord or just use Chrome, you don't need to use both at once. You can find other ways of minimizing RAM use.

    That should get you on your way.

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