Windows 10: W 10 Home sees 16 Gb, but only uses around 5.5

I have a Toshiba Satellite E55 laptop with Windows 10 Home installed. It had 4 Gb of RAM, and was running way to slow. I purchased two identical 8Gb chips, and installed both. The computer sees all 16 Gb (see second image below), but only seems to use up to about 5.5 Gb. I have tried running Netflix streaming videos while rendering a video in a video editing software, and it still maxes out at 6.2 Gb (see first image). I also have two web browsers and an email client open.

I thought with all that I should be using more than 6 Gb, but maybe I don't know enough.

Any thoughts? Am I missing something in my settings, or is my computer using the 16 Gb as effectively as it needs?









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Windows 10 only uses around 1.5 gb out of 4 gb ram

Hi,

I've been having issues after updating to windows 10 for a while now. I have a Lenovo Ideapad with 4 gb of ram. After upgrading to Windows 10, it seems like the disk speed and ram memory has decreased. And it is windows 10 64 bit. For example, Edge is using
187 mb ram right now, if i convert that to percentage, it says it's around 12,5%, which means that the total amount it uses is 1500 mb.

I read somewhere that this was probably due to virtual memory, so i tried adjusting the size of the virtual memory, and completely disabling it. None of it worked. Then i tried reinstalling Windows 10, but that hasn't solved my issue either.

Bios recognizes 4gb of ram, windows recognizes 4gb of ram, but for some reason it only uses 1,5 gb, and disk speeds are also slow (I have a SSHD and it should be way faster). As you can see on this screenshot it's using around 13%, i think the amount was
around 193 mb when i took the screenshot.









I've also tried changing battery performance modes to high performance, using both lenovos own profiles and windows versions. I've also updated all drivers from lenovo's webpage, and i have no updates available in windows update.

Can anyone help me?

 

Windows 10 only uses around 1.5 gb out of 4 gb ram

Why is it normal that my computer only uses 1.5 gb of my 4 gb ram available? Did you read through the entire post?

 

Hi, You've nothing to worry about. Memory management is sophisticated. Perhaps be worried if your RAM usage approaches, say, 70-80%, especially as you have 16GB. Some of your RAM is probably associated with your graphics card, or potentially so. RAM is swapped with your page file (of which you're using very little), so simply looking at RAM usage tells you only part of the story.

Just leave the page file settings as default, unless an expert.

If your second screenshot is when nominally idle, I'd prefer to see your CPU use lower, and disk use virtually 0.