How can you check for memory space on your computer?

Question

I wuld not like to overload my memory space as one says it could ruin your computer is this true? Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Memory space??? you must means hardrive space right?? If that's the case then all you do is Double-click My Computer icon, Select your hardrive, right-click it, select properties and on the general tab it will tell you how much space you have left (used apace and free space). Window won't let you use up all space on your hardrive, so don't worry about it. Even if you fill it up, it won't ruin your PC, what happens is that your PC will run very very slow. You could have more space by adding more hardrives to your pc.

Answer 2

You won't ruin your computer.

It will simply freeze if you run out of memory and you will have to reboot.

They are 3 types of memory.
Your cache memory...which you cannot do anything about as it is build into the motherboard.

Your RAM memory. If you are not into games...512Mb of Ram should be plenty for a normal computer.

And finally...when your computer runs out of RAM...it uses your hard disk to store things on it...it is called "page files".
The default is to use the whole free space on your hard disk. This is not a good idea as it slow down your computer. Particulary if you don't defragment your hard drive regularly.
Go to control panel
Performance and maintenance
System Properties/Advanced/Performance/settings/
Performance options/Advanced
Change your virtual memory to 500Mb
Then defragment your hard drive.
Windows will allocate 500Mb of free space on your hard disk for memory only and that space won't be used for anything else.
Of course this is relative to the size of your hard disk and I assume that you have a 20Gb or bigger hard disk.

While you are there...above virtual memory
There is memory usage
Tick system cache instead of programs
This will also make your computer faster.

Another thing which will speed up your computer is to have a good video card with a minimum of 32Mb of memory. 128Mb is more the norm of today.

Answer 3

You cannot ruin your computer when a program uses too much (RAM) memory so don't worry about that. I do remember running into problems when a program tried to write data to a hard disk that was full. But this happened a loooong time ago (I was using MS-DOS at the time) and I think modern operating systems (such as Windows or OS X) don't have this problem.

But if you're using Windows, you can check how much memory you're using by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL simultaneously. Select the Performance tab et voila... :-)

Answer 4

It depends on exactly what type of memory you are talking about...

If you're talking about the Hard Drive, then, yes, there is some truth in that. Near-full hard drives take longer to access, wich can cause physical errors on the part, to avoid that all you need is to keep your disk Defragged and store all your 'junk' in disposable media (CD's and DVD's and the like)

If you're talking about RAM, then that rumor is basically untrue.
Considering your RAM will 'erase' itself every time you reboot, the worst that can happen is your computer turning really slow after a very long time powered on (very long as in weeks or even months)

Answer 5

push CTRL + ALT + DEL at the same time. in second tab ( Processes) you will see list of program that are running.

at the bottom, say CPU usage, if it is around 2-7% it's good higher than that you should be consider what program using that much of your CPU.

RAM or memory get overload but most important is CPU, if Ram get overloaded, it only Freeze operation system, you can restart or wait until it get in normal position.

Answer 6

open My Computer, right click C: drive, go to properties. This will bring up a box telling you how much memory you have left.

Additionally, you can see how fragmented your harddrive is (you want less fragmentation) by going to:
Start -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter
It will analyze your harddrive for you, and tell you if you need to defragment it, by which case you click defragment.

Answer 7

If you have a PC,click on the start tab(bottom left of screen),go to Control Panel,Go to Performance and Maintainence,go to free up space. It will scan your hard drives and tell you how much you have left.

Answer 8

memory space:
open Windows Task Manager
click on the Performance Tab
Physical Memory shows the "amount of memory being used etc.

to open Windows Task Manager press Ctrl+Alt+Del

Answer 9

hi Kay! Double click the "my computing gadget" icon, you will see close by Disc (C:) acceptable click in this and scroll all the way down to "properties". click on "properties" and it exhibits you the way lots memory you have left! yet as its a clean computing gadget you may desire to have various memory left. it may desire to be that there are courses working interior the history. various courses, like skype, directly load once you commence your computing gadget. attempt turning off a number of those. reliable success!! Declan

Answer 10

What type of computer do you have? It's impossible to tell you how much memory your motherboard can support without knowing what type of PC you have.

Too much ram won't ruin your computer....what type of PC do you have?