Does Windows really need to take up 5 Gigs of my memory to function...Please help--I am outsmarted by my laptop!
Hello all--I would really appreciate any advice here. I have a Dell Inspiron laptop which I purchased used. It has 9.36 Gigs of memory, but the available memory is so low that it barely functions. I don't have a bunch of programs on it, I have 2 anti-virus programs, I have cleaned and defragged I am blue in the face. I just ran this "idisc" thing that tells me that 5 gigs (or rather 4.96 Gigs) is going to Windows. Holy smokes! My dad's laptop has only 1 gig of memory and it runs Windows just fine. I am not overy bright with computers, but I would love to "find" my missing memory. Thanks ever so much for any help.1 person needs an answerI do too
July 7th, 2010 8:17am

See the post just prior to yourshttp://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpperformance/thread/3e7918a7-57f4-49ac-a22d-0540214b3233In edition, in Internet Options, delete all temp files and set the default store to 50mb/If you actually have two AV programs they will conflict with each other, but then they may not be AV programs, so what are they?You are refering to hard drive space, not ,memory
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July 7th, 2010 11:36am

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 05:17:21 +0000, mountainmamabtr wrote:Hello all--I would really appreciate any advice here.  I have a Dell Inspiron laptop which I purchased used.  It has 9.36 Gigs of memory,Memory? Do you mean disk space?The term "memory" is used to refer to the place where the computerholds the program and data it is working with at the moment. It'snormally random access memory (RAM), but that can be extended with thepage or swap file on the hard disk. The word "memory" is never used torefer to the space on a drive (whether that's a hard drive, diskette,CD, DVD, or thumb drive). Space on a disk drive is normally called"storage" or simply "disk space." Calling disk space "memory" isn't so much wrong as justunconventional. In a sense, disk space is, of course, memory, but theimportant thing to realize is that the word is never used that way,and if you do so, you do it at the risk of seriously confusing youraudience. 9.36GB is a absolutely tiny amount these days.but the available memory is so low that it barely functions.  I don't have a bunch of programs on it, I have 2 anti-virus programs, I have cleaned and defragged I am blue in the face.  I just ran this "idisc" thing that tells me that 5 gigs (or rather 4.96 Gigs) is going to Windows.  Holy smokes! If you think that's a lot of disk space for Windows, you are mistaken.My dad's laptop has only 1 gig of memory and it runs Windows just fine.You are mixing up the two again, but in the opposite direction here.The 1GB probably is memory, not disk space. 1GB of disk space is solittle that you couldn't even install Windows on it.  I am not overy bright with computers, but I would love to "find" my missing memory.  Thanks ever so much for any help.Ken Blake
July 8th, 2010 1:52am

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