My PC is using half ram

medo_oref

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For some time now my PC has been slow before i start describing my issue i will mention my specs
i5-6600 , 8GB 2133mhz DDR5 (Just 1 stick of 8GB), Rx480 8GB, MSI-H170 Gaming M3, Windows 10

The issue is the PC is some how only utilizing half of that RAM i can see in My computer properties that there are 8GB installed but in terms of actual usage only 4GB is being used. As i monitored my usage lets say for example i play the game X, the game X is using about 3.5GB of RAM and my usage is at 99%, so i check my task manager and i quick estimate the running programs usage at it is nearly 4GB. So any solution on what might be happening i tried many different things like changing paging file size and installing program to clean RAM and disabling most of start up programs but still the issue presists
 
Solution
It is possible that you're using a 32 bit version of Windows 10. 32 bit OSes can utilize up to 4 GB RAM only. Installing a 64 bit Windows 10 should solve your issue.