My Notebook's Physical Memory too High!!

Hello, After almost 6 months I noticed that my notebook's spped is getting too much slow so I decided to do Recovery in order to get back its orginal speed. When I was done wtih Recovery, I found that at the very start (After Welcome Screen) it gets too slow and It shocked me that I have just done Recovery and what has happened. On experiencing it, I opened a Task Manager and found that in Performance Section that my PHYSICAL MEMORY IS fluctuating between 80-85% and sometimes 90-93% which is a way too high. What do I need to do?

, Hello and thanks for posting back. The reson the memory shoots up when you install some programs is due to the fact that they run in the background and with the newer office programs and so on they are constantly checking for updates and are linked to the internet for licence reason. The only way to fix this is to add more memory or look into memory management in windows. About Memory Management Now one thing you may want to check is the system itself. Here is a link to the system BIOS diagnostics you can run to check the state of your hardware and memory. HP Notebook PCs - System Diagnostics (F2) HP PC Hardware Diagnostics Please let me know what you find out. Thanks again for the post and have a great day.

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I have a 2011 i7 quad core mac, I was hoping it would scream. Most of the time it does. However when trying to edit within FCPX I get a very disappointing experience with many pauses and pin wheels if I don't close every single other program.
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Because without virtual memory, managing computer RAM is a royal pain in the ...
Virtual memory cost you nothing, and gains you huge benefits, even if you do not notice it
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hello!
im having a kind of a similar problem. Im using a Q6600 with 4Gb of RAM running on Windows 7 x64. My physical memory usage history is 1.75GB idle but my CPU usage looks good ~ 0%.
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Hi,
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Hi,
Although both server are identical OS configurations, hardware and experience nearly identical workloads, there are still differences between them. We can use task manager on both server and Check which processes are using physical memory, please go through
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/archive/2012/12/06/lots-of-ram-but-no-available-memory.aspx
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