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Ram Space

dacouch
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I have a Compaq laptop I bought about 4 months ago, it shows as 9.31gb of ram of which 1.69gb is free on the Presario. It has always shown about this much (It runs on vista) is this about right or do I need to do anything to clean it up.

Thanks

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  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
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    9.31gb of ram. I think you are confused with ram and hard drive space.

    9.31gb isnt too bad but it depends on what you want to do with laptop, ie install more programs possibly games which can eat into it.
  • dacouch
    dacouch Posts: 21,636 Forumite
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    I was getting the figures from "computer" in start memory, I thought it had 2gb when i bought it.
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
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    Yes but you quoted "9.31gb of ram" and then go on to say "I thought it had 2gb"

    Most pc, laptop only have around 2gb-4gb of ram tops. Laptops tend to now have between 2gb to 3gb of ram as a rule
  • bluboy
    bluboy Posts: 336 Forumite
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    Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > System.
    In the System section, under Memory (RAM), you can view the amount of RAM your computer has.

    Vista help
    Don't just hate it when MicroSoft are helpful ;-)
  • macman
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    OK, we've established that you have 2GB of RAM. That is the minimum to run Vista, but a 1 or 2GB upgrade would give you better performance.
    Still confused about how much hard disk space you have left. If the laptop is nearly new, I'm guessing it came with a drive of maybe around 160GB? As a rule you don't want the drive more than 85% full, so (assuming 160GB) you would need around 24GB of free space. If you have 9.31GB it's too full. If you only have 1.69GB then it's almost completely full!
    It can't have come as new with so little free disk space-normally the OS and and any pre-installed applications would take up maybe 40% maximum? So either your figure is incorrect or you have installed an awful lot of data in 4 months.
    Right click on My Computer, General tab will show you the size of your hard drive.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
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