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Please stop trusting Task Manager's RAM numbers
Do you really need more RAM?
Use the Task Manager for quick RAM checks and the Resource Monitor for a detailed analysis to find out which applications are using the most memory. Adjust application priorities in Task Manager, use ...
The new crop of default Windows apps is too resource-hungry and inefficient — ditch them for these lightweight alternatives ...
Ever wonder why your computer is slow? Or how much of your CPU, memory, and bandwidth a particular program is using? Task Manager is how you can find out, and also how you can close applications that ...
Chrome has a built-in Task Manager that shows tabs, extensions, and memory use, and you can use it to speed up your browser.
I have 8 GB of RAM and on a clean boot with almost nothing running. I have 50% of my memory used up sometimes more. I thought it was a dead RAM stick so I tried to use one RAM stick at a time and they ...
We have a Windows 2008 SP2 32-bit box with 4GB of ram Running SQL 2005. Task Manager's performance tab shows 3.2GB of memory in use. However, looking at the Processes tab, the Working Set + Commit ...
Hold on. Don’t just reboot your Windows 7 PC. I realize that rebooting is the go-to solution when a program won’t shut down, or the system starts dragging or acting wonky, but there is another way.
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