When i looked at the memory mechanic that is built into the system mechanic program, it shows that i only have about like 34mb of ram left, when i first start up my computer and go to the desktop and check it, its about like 500mb or something like that. I don't understand whats going on, anyone have a clue what i could do?
It sounds like some program or process is slowly gobbling up your free memory, but there can be many different causes for that. Please do the following to see if you can identify a possible suspect:
- Hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click Task Manager in the resulting window.
- Click on the "Processes" tab and then put a check in the "show processes from all users" box at the bottom of the Processes window.
- Click on the "Mem usage" header at the top of the list of running processes to sort the processes by memory usage, highest to lowest.
- Monitor that list to see if you can spot a program/process whose memory usage gradually increases over time. Give us the name of the process if you find it.
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