Why is my systems memory usage so high?

[futurefields]

Upon a fresh boot this is what I see:

That is a bit high isn't it? Rig is in my sig.

 

[bbhaag]

Looks like you have quit a few programs running right at startup. Do you really need all of them right from the get go?

Press the windows key+r on your keyboard. When the run box pops up type msconfig and press enter. A new box should appear and there should be a tab named Startup. It will look similar to this:

I would recommend going through this list and disabling any unnecessary programs that you don't need right at boot. That should help lower ram usage after a restart.

 

[futurefields]

Yeah... but the list of programs shows what... a couple hundred mb being used?

Yet why under Physical Memory does it say I only have 2gb available? So 6gb is being used? By what? I have 8gb system RAM and a dedicated video card...

 

[bbhaag]

It's a place to start. Why so argumentative right off the bat? Did you even try my suggestion and see if it helped?

 

[master_shake_]

click show processes from all users.

there is more to the story.

are you using chrome lol

 

[Smoblikat]

It looks like it says about 2gb used and 6154mb available......

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I think that's normal? (My numbers are similar and I just rebooted yesterday.)

 

[pcgeek11]

Looks normal IMO also. About 1.94 GB used, the rest available.

 

[john3850]

The memory looks normal after I subtract my ram files I have the same two GB of memory in use.

 

[greenhawk]

windows likes to cache files in advance (4GB cached looking at the OP's image), so of that 6 GB, 4 GB is just windows keeping files on hand. Perfectly normal.

I just started my computer and it is reporting 1.7GB cached files and a total of about 4 GB used (inc cache IIRC).

windows makes room if it is needed by removing cached files.

If you want a better general experence, just change some of those programs not to start on start up.

Things like;
Origin
Steam
maybe the Radon video driver interface

 

[Elixer]

Yeah, normal looking, I also disable steam & origin and anything else that isn't needed by the system, since I only want to run programs when *I* want, not at system startup.

 

[tweakboy]

Thats correct, nothing wrong with it. Get 8GB ram. 16GB for future. thx,,

 

[tweakboy]

And make sure you disable pagefile.