608 MB (72% Utilized)?

Question

my memory is 608 MB (72% Utilized) even when all i'm running is a internet site yahoo messenger and anti virus software. my system runs slow is this normal or can i free up some mb?

Answer 1

The cause of high CPU usage is usually do to an excess of services running in the background. The is not uncommon when you are connected to the net because other services will use you connection opportunity to silently update an perform other actions. You should cut down on the amount of services running in the background. Here is how.

1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. In the command screen type: msconfig
4. In the "system configuration utility", Click "services" tab
5. Uncheck all services that are unnecessary.
6. Click "OK"

The page below will you other ways to cut down on CPU usage. Hope this helps!
http://www.delete-computer-history.com/cause-for-high-cpu-usage.html

Answer 2

i it's the RAM you mean, you can buy a chip or two and plug into the motherboard, that helps. The main reason is that windows has some strange ways to organize its memory, and it does not organize it wery effectivly. Furthermore, an antivirus program uses a LOT of memory, especialy if you got many programs in the systemtray (the lower right of your screen). and there is usally more programs running in the background that uses memory. Spyware causes this kind of problems. Get yourself a good program to get rid of those.
The best thing that helps, is to back up your data and format the harddrive and reinstall windows.

Answer 3

Karz is right on. You can google each process name and learn something about it. It can tell you if its malware or a virus or a kosher process. You can also make note of how much ramm its eating up. I found that many processes were involved with my Panda AV. It ate up so much ramm I didn't renew my AV with them and tried Computer Associates and it when from something like 550mb total used upon a fresh boot to about 330mb. Nice eh,...especially since I only had 512 and it was shared with the video ramm.

Answer 4

Ctrl-Alt-Del to open Task Manager. Click on Processes tab and look for the processes with your user name on it. These are the processes that you could opt to end or disable in msconfig. Your computer slows down when one or more of those processes try to "steal" your processor's attention while you are working on something.

Do not touch any of the system processes.