Friday, October 16, 2015

laptop - Why am I getting 959MB usable out of 4GB RAM?


I just bought somedays ago a HP 650 Laptop which comes with DOS, 500GB HDD, 2GB RAM and intel graphics card. From the shop, they installed another 2GB of RAM. So total primary memory is 4GB of RAM. I installed Windows 7 32 bit. But now it is showing only 959MB usable and the laptop is working slow. What can I do now? Is there actually anything I can do to extend the RAM usability?


Answer



So finally I managed to solve the issue. Somewhere in the internet I read it can be the problem due to the Windows version installed being 32 bit and that Windows 7 with some specific hardware works good in 64 bit version. So I uninstalled the 32 bit version used and installed a 64 bit version and voila, the problem is solved. It is now showing 3.90GB usable RAM and the computer also became dramatically fast.


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