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I have 8GB DDR3 RAM installed and it is not using all of the RAM. It says that only 6.99GB usable out of 8GB. Thanks for help
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XperiaAir wrote I have 8GB DDR3 RAM installed and it is not using all of the RAM. It says that only 6.99GB usable out of 8GB. Thanks for help
That's normal. The rest is reserved for system operations.
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XperiaAir wrote I have 8GB DDR3 RAM installed and it is not using all of the RAM. It says that only 6.99GB usable out of 8GB. Thanks for help
That's normal. The rest is reserved for system operations.

It's also possible that you have integrated graphics, which shares system memory.
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XperiaAir wrote I have 8GB DDR3 RAM installed and it is not using all of the RAM. It says that only 6.99GB usable out of 8GB. Thanks for help


Vista and Windows 7 use memory differently than previous Windows versions by caching ahead.
Both will free up memory to applications as needed. Close all applications and check the Peformance
tab - lower left - Physical Memory - check total and cached. The caching allows free memory to
be used for system performance which is much better than it sitting idle doing nothing.

Also some of your memory might be used for memory mapping for Video and other system needs.

Start - type in Search box -> System Information find at top and double click on it and check
the info there.
you can decrease the amount of cache space being reserved by going into CMD prompt as admin and running the cmd fsutil behavior set memoryusage 1 to set the amount to windows default or 2 to increase the allotted size.
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r00t wrote
VEVO wrote
XperiaAir wrote I have 8GB DDR3 RAM installed and it is not using all of the RAM. It says that only 6.99GB usable out of 8GB. Thanks for help
That's normal. The rest is reserved for system operations.

It's also possible that you have integrated graphics, which shares system memory.
Why were you thumbed down? You're right. :|
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