if youre in XP press Ctrl-Alt-Del, and click on Performance tab.
if you want to free it up - trim the amount of programs running in the background, and trim the amount of programs @ startup.
You can goto Start-run-and type msconfig - then click on the startup tab, everything with a checkmark starts automatically everytime you boot your computer. only basic MS progs are ncessary and an anti-virus, thats it.
If you have less than 512 you need more, 1 Gig is just OK, with 2 Gigs being the norm for power users.
there's no such element as RAM "left". it somewhat is distinctly complicated to describe, however the fast version is that your workstation makes use of RAM despite if it does not desire it, so the quantity of "unused" RAM isn't significant in any respect. case in point, permit's say you run a application and that application finishes. the workstation could make each and all of the RAM that held this device loose. yet while it does that, and you run this device back, it somewhat is going to ought to load this device from no longer common disk. So if the workstation does not desire loose memory, it somewhat is going to easily shop this device in memory. If it later seems that it desires loose memory, it somewhat is going to loose the memory keeping this device then, and in basic terms then. So the quantity of loose RAM is unquestionably meaningless.
Ok first click the start tab, then go to run and in the command type in "dxdiag" That doesn't only show u ram, but it shows you the specs of ur system.
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if youre in XP press Ctrl-Alt-Del, and click on Performance tab.
if you want to free it up - trim the amount of programs running in the background, and trim the amount of programs @ startup.
You can goto Start-run-and type msconfig - then click on the startup tab, everything with a checkmark starts automatically everytime you boot your computer. only basic MS progs are ncessary and an anti-virus, thats it.
If you have less than 512 you need more, 1 Gig is just OK, with 2 Gigs being the norm for power users.
there's no such element as RAM "left". it somewhat is distinctly complicated to describe, however the fast version is that your workstation makes use of RAM despite if it does not desire it, so the quantity of "unused" RAM isn't significant in any respect. case in point, permit's say you run a application and that application finishes. the workstation could make each and all of the RAM that held this device loose. yet while it does that, and you run this device back, it somewhat is going to ought to load this device from no longer common disk. So if the workstation does not desire loose memory, it somewhat is going to easily shop this device in memory. If it later seems that it desires loose memory, it somewhat is going to loose the memory keeping this device then, and in basic terms then. So the quantity of loose RAM is unquestionably meaningless.
Ok first click the start tab, then go to run and in the command type in "dxdiag" That doesn't only show u ram, but it shows you the specs of ur system.
Right click the task bar at the bottom of your screen, click task manager. Go to the Performance tab.
Look at physical memory.
Total is how much you have total.
Available is the amount you have left not in use.
Quick and dirty way:
Open a Command Prompt. Type MEM <enter>