How much ram should windows 7 use?

Horlock

Just been looking at this and wondering whether it is normal. This PC is idle - litterally just switched on. There are no applications running and the total of all listed memory for the processes in the task manager totals less than 100MB.

Second question - should it be possible to increase memory use to over 50%?

Hammyman

Yep, perfectly normal. Windows Vista and Windows 7 use Superfetch which loads frequently used programs in memory for faster startup and frees it up if needed. After all, there's no point shoving 4GB of RAM in a computer for 3.5GB of it to sit there idle.

John_Gray

Horlock wrote: »

How much ram should windows 7 use?

The answer is, "As much as is available." As Hammyman says, there is no point otherwise.

What exactly it uses it for is a rather more complex question...

gaming_guy

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Widelats

I got win 7 Ultimate, only difference between mine and win 7 starter or premium is the aero glass screen option, even ultimate does not use a whole GB on startup

RobTang

Widelats wrote: »

I got win 7 Ultimate, only difference between mine and win 7 starter or premium is the aero glass screen option, even ultimate does not use a whole GB on startup

It depends how much ram you have, if you have more it'll allocate more to itself on start up

eg. MY desktop has 6gb it always allocates 1.5gb, my laptop only has 3gb and it allocates 800-900mb

Russel245

You got a lot of junk running in the background there.

I have just started my PC up opened a browser and I'm also running coretemp, antivirus and steam on startup and I have only 48 processes at the moment.

You're sitting on 71. That's pretty high.

That said, I'm using 1.28gigs of my ram already.

Millionaire

As others have mentioned above, It's normal usage.

albert2011

2GB RAM or more than that is safe from Windows 7.