Dell laptop

whu

Hi

I've had problems with my laptop and the physical memory reached 98%!!!However,a friend removed a couple of processes that were using up virtually the whole of the memory of 4 m (I'm not sure about the terminology:o) and now the physical memory is around 40-44% and the laptop is working fine.

Is this about the correct % for this type of laptop?


Thanks.

penrhyn

I assume you mean 4Gigabytes of memory.
CPU usage depends on what programmes you are running.
If the system is idle I'd expect less than 5 or 10%.have another look at the task manager and see whats using up the CPU/memory.

sb2_2

do you mean 4GB?

Yes its very possible.

For example: say you have youtube on which takes 1GB, a game taking 1.5GB, system taking 1GB then you would have 500mb of RAM free.

If you run too many applications then your PC will freeze up. try to make sure you generally only use 60% of the RAM.

whu

thanks - yes 4gb - the only programme running is me using the internet and even when it was just idle the physical memory was 40%ish (1.66gb)

macman

Which indicates that you have too many startup programs running in the background. Which OS are you running?

whu

macman wrote: »

Which indicates that you have too many startup programs running in the background. Which OS are you running?

67 processes

what is an OS?:o

Also a pop up message appeared asking if i wanted to compact messages when i was looking at emails - i said no as when that appewared a couple of weeks ago i said yes and it wiped my emails although i retrived them and it was the start of the problems with the laptop

aliadds

whu wrote: »

67 processes

what is an OS?:o

Vista, XP, or Windows 7 etc;)

whu

aliadds wrote: »

Vista, XP, or Windows 7 etc;)

windows - but not the latest one - is thgat windows 7?

Toxteth_OGrady

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/products/winfamily/ie/checkos.mspx

aliadds

whu wrote: »

windows - but not the latest one - is thgat windows 7?

If you use the link above it should help you find it, but sounds like it might be Vista:)

whu

It is Windows Vista:)