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‎02-06-2020 11:08 AM

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Product: HP Desktop M01-F0020
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I just purchased Product with 512g hard drive ssdi when I look up the product and researched it shows 8g ram when I hook it up look into the Sys it only shows 5.91g Ram? Is the other 2.09G used else where in the system?

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‎02-06-2020 11:27 AM - edited ‎02-06-2020 11:35 AM

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Hi

it's normal no worries
The memory is used by programs in use, peripherals etc

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/978610/the-usable-memory-may-be-less-than-the-installed-mem...

this link is for windows 7
it's just to understand better, some information, may not be possible under windows 10 (I have not checked everything)
But that explains mainly what is happening

 

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‎02-06-2020 11:27 AM - edited ‎02-06-2020 11:35 AM

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Hi

it's normal no worries
The memory is used by programs in use, peripherals etc

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/978610/the-usable-memory-may-be-less-than-the-installed-mem...

this link is for windows 7
it's just to understand better, some information, may not be possible under windows 10 (I have not checked everything)
But that explains mainly what is happening

 

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‎02-06-2020 11:32 AM

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That is all I needed I thought that was it but no one could tell me where I guess I need more ram now thank you 

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