I got a Dell laptop with Windows 7 Professional. Initially it had 3GB of RAM. Then I upgraded my laptop increasing RAM up to 4GB.
Viewing system details through My Computer icon it is saying that the laptop has got 4GB of memory (BIOS shows the same thing), usable 2.96 GB. According to the task manager my laptop has got only 3GB of memory.
When the RAM consumption reaches > 2GB, Windows shows a pop-up on the screen saying that I am running out of memory. I used to get the same pop up window having 3 GB of RAM.
Why is my RAM is not fully exploited?
Answer
You're running a 32bit version of Windows and/or your graphics processor reserves some of your system memory for itself.
edit: I just realized, our very own Jeff Atwood wrote an article about exactly this issue.
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