How to use all the RAM in your computer?

You see, let's take it step by step:

What you're using is Windows 7 32bit - which is only capable of reading around 3.2GB - 3.5GB of RAM at most.

If you equipe a computer with more than that( say, 4GB or more), you will need a 64-bit edition of Windows.

What you need right now is to install Windows 7 64-bit.

Check this out:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/de...

Now,since Windows 7 32 bit cannot be upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit, you will have to perform a clean install of Windows 7 X64 (Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate)

x86=32 bit

x64=64 bit

You would have to back up all your data from the Desktop, Documents, and main partition and then get a Windows 7 installation disc and install the 64 bit version of Win7. You don't necessarily have to format the partition(and erase all the data) - your files will appear in a "Windows.old" folder after you finish installing a 64 bit edition of Windows 7.

Also, don't worry about program compatibility issues or things like that - any program that runs under a 32 bit edition of Windows 7 should run perfectly fine within any 64 bit edition of Windows 7.

Your situation has nothing to do with the kind of memory that your computer supports! If your computer didn't support that memory you wouldn't have been able to see anything on the computer screen! Those are the clear symptoms of memory compatibility issues and here it just isn't the case.

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Or you can go on Windows operating system locate the command prompt and go there to do the following:

Create a Recovery file of system and date it today.

Then begin by;

delete the 'Temp' folders..they have hidden subfolders so you need to set the attributes in order to bypass this. For each subfolder delete all cookies and rubbish left behnd after install-uninstalled programs. Do a 'dir' command to check your progress. Make sure the 'Temp' file is empty.

goto c:\windows\prefetch and delete everything in there..no exceptions

goto c:\windows folder and delete all the '$' files that have been installed by updates. They can all be succesfully deleted and just take up disk space.

Locate the Internet Temporary Files..Check to see how high the saving level is..some have it set at 30 days..but that stores faaaar tooo much data..though it slows down the system overal. Keep this to a minimum..suggest 2 or 5 at most.

Delete all 'cookies' all those you don't need.

Locate the windows directory and go through the folders you know and those you don't need. Check this once a week at least. Some programs will install under XP as NT and older systems where there is no check of systems weight.

Check to see that system files have not changed since last booting. Things like .ini files or .bat are important items.

Check for 'Hidden Directories' all over the disk...do this at the command prompt:

dir *.* /ah wil show these hidden directories

Check the 'dir' command for all parameters

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Windows 7 32 bit has a limitation of 4GB RAM. out of which about 3GB will be usable.

The only way to utilize all the memory is to install a 64 bit OS. (windows 7 x64 bit)

good luck.

If it's compatible with Windows 7 64bit, that lets it use more RAM. I'm not quite sure yet, because I never used a 64 bit OS. If it has 8 GB RAM, and you are limited to 3GB, then it could also be possibly which ram your computer can support. For example, I'm running 2 1GB RAM card things for laptops, anything higher could result in less RAM than usual.

See online what kind of RAM your computer supports, that's all I got.

The problem is that you've installed windows 7 32-bit.

32 bit editions of windows allow RAM only upto 3 GB

If you want to use the whole 8 GB, you need to install windows 7 64 Bit edition.

With 64 bit edition, you can use whole 8GB

The problem was that you've install wrong version of OS

Install the 64 bit edition and it will let you use the whole 8 GB of RAM you have installed in your PC

You can't. You are using 32bit Windows. You NEED 64bit Win7 installed. No other way around it

You need a 32-bit operating system. That's the only way

Ditto. 32 bit = 4GB of RAM max.