My Laptop keeps telling me my memory is low

[denphone]

Can someone tell me how to solves the problem of my Laptop which keeps telling me my memory is low as l keep on deleting temporary files and everthing else but yet it seems to make no difference as the message keeps on returning.

temp files sit on your hard drive not in ram ( unless you set it that way) how much ram does the system have? ( right click my computer and select properties )

[denphone]

The laptop has 6.0GB of ram tiz so there should not be a problem but the message of your memory is low keeps on coming up and not being a expert l am not educated enough to solve it..

[progers]

What os are you running?

[Stephen]

What are the system specs?

RAM
Hard Drive Size and used/free space
OS

[Osem]

Den, just in case you're not sure how to find the details being asked for just open 'My Computer' from the start menu, right click on the 'c' drive icon then click on 'properties' at the bottom of the drop down menu. If you right click somewhere else in the My Computer screen and do the same thing it will tell you your computer's spec. HTH.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Stephen

What are the system specs?

RAM
Hard Drive Size and used/free space
OS

The RAM is 6.0GB

The Hard drive size is 1TB with about three quarters spare still

And the operating system is Windows 8.1

[damien c]

Silly questions I know but have you done a full Virus and Malware scan?

Checked for any Windows Updates?

Checked using the Task Manager or Performance monitor to see what is using all the ram up?

[denphone]

l have Norton which was offered for a period when l bought it for security and my Windows tell me of any updates when l log on everytime.

Where do l find the Task or performance monitor Damien

[joglynne]

Move your cursor to the left of any icons you have in your task bar at the bottom right of your screen.

Right click and you should have a pop-up menu which contains a link to your Task Manager.

Right click on that link and your task manager will come up. You can then choose the Performance tab.

Hope the above makes sense.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by joglynne

Move your cursor to the left of any icons you have in your task bar at the bottom right of your screen.

Right click and you should have a pop-up menu which contains a link to your Task Manager.

Right click on that link and your task manager will come up. You can then choose the Performance tab.

Hope the above makes sense.

Thanks jo for that and this is what it says.

CPU 4%
Memory 73%
Disk 3%

And that's it really unless l am missing something.

[joglynne]

I think what Damien was telling you to look at was actually under the Processes tab.

For example, my highest process user when I am just browsing is Firefox. Using around 300MB

If you right click on where it says MEMORY it will sort the processes out into highest/lowest and knowing your highest processes may throw some light on what is causing your laptop to eat up your memory.

Get rid of Norton whatever happens here

[denphone]

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

Get rid of Norton whatever happens here

And what would you advise to replace it tiz?.

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Originally Posted by joglynne

I think what Damien was telling you to look at was actually under the Processes tab.

For example, my highest process user when I am just browsing is Firefox. Using around 300MB

If you right click on where it says MEMORY it will sort the processes out into highest/lowest and knowing your highest processes may throw some light on what is causing your laptop to eat up your memory.

Thanks jo as l am looking at that now.

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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

Get rid of Norton whatever happens here

Looking at the processes

Internet explorer is way way top of the list with 811,2 MB and that is followed a long way back by Spotify , Windows explorer and Norton itself is nowhere to be seen

[denphone]

It keeps telling me several times a day that my memory is low.

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Is the warning about all memory usage or just IE? 800Mbytes seems an awful lot just for a browser.

AVG pops me a warning when FF is using more than ~400Mbytes. Usually only happens when using Google image search.

Could it be because l have quite a few tabs open? as l have cut out three tabs and it has gone down by half.