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GunsAdmin
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Why has my ram count reduced by almost a third
So I bought a laptop a little over a year ago, it's been fine but i've noticed over the months the amount of available ram I have has slowly began to decrease. I'm not exactly a computer expert but I didn't really think that RAM was something that depleted/used up and would require replacing like memory on a harddrive, and after trying to google solutions to this I couldn't really find many links similar to my issue, with nothing recent. I don't really use my laptop for anything extensive such as gaming/ watching videos. Mostly just photoshop and graal. I had made a few youtube videos so was rending them the cause of this? I don't know whether I can even replace my RAM as i'm on a prebuild laptop so am I screwed when it eventually runs out? Or is there something I can do/ things to delete for the missing ram to become re available again? 
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12-30-2016
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2012
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This is normal. Running apps live in memory
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12-30-2016
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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More apps running = more RAM used. Your total RAM never changes. You have more than enough to worry though. |
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12-30-2016
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12-30-2016
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GunsAdmin
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Yea you guys are right. I knew thats what RAM did I just didn't expect that as I was using only a few windows it was enough to be using 5GB of my memory. Apparently I have a ton of background things running that I didn't even know were opened. I mean chrome and photoshop which is all I have opened and are the top two programs currently using the most only accounts for 800mb total of memory. Even accounting for the other programs my task manager says its running the total doesn't seem like it would equate to 5GB, maybe 3GB at the most My next question is whether there is some kind of way to close all the unnecessary background programs that are running with no purpose to free up my ram without individually ending them on task manager. (or is the answer simple again like restarting your computer) Seems kind of stupid if I can't to be limited to only 10 or so/ the 16gb I bought. Had I only gone with 8GB of RAM I may aswell have been better off with my old computer |
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12-30-2016
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Join Date: Dec 2014
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Remove programs you don't use anymore and use another browser instead of chrome
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01-21-2017
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Sam ram doesn't matter,
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01-22-2017
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but well, since youre using windows rn, try to stop some startup services, go and get some uttility software that can easily clean your PCs for you, like ccleaner, glary, 365 or advanced systemcare. or go get bitsum lasso, if youre into gaming and want to stop most of these peasants background apps and services while youre gaming so you got no lag. However, most of the background processes and services have their own function. and force closing some of them might lead to a system reboot, but you will be fine as long you don't touch anything starts with 'windows' or 'microsoft' thought. |
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01-23-2017
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Verified ✔️
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just download some more no biggie
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01-23-2017
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01-24-2017
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how did i get 4 rep bars
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