WAAAAAAAY too high RAM usage

[CompGee]

Sorry for the long post.

Hi, everybody. Yesterday, I did a clean install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I installed Panda 2014, motherboard drivers, Glary Utilities 5, Auslogics Disk Defrag, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Drive, and Notepad++. Today, I installed Rainmeter, and MozyHome. I copied over skins for Rainmeter, and some MP3'S. I took a look at Task Manager and found out that I am using WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than 2GB of RAM. I then installed RamRush and tried to optimize. I got an error saying something about RamRush. Now, RamRush is stuck in a optimize loop. I need to be using less than 2GB of RAM or else the system I will be putting the hard drive with the Windows 7 Pro 64-bit OS into will lock up. Believe me, I have killed a hard drive because of that. I have GOT to shrink this RAM usage down or else when I log in on the system I will soon swap the hard drive with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit into, the computer WILL freeze. The system I am running on right now has 16GB RAM. Please help!!! The apps I normally have running are Rainmeter, Windows Media Player, MozyHome, Google Chrome, and sometimes Oracle VM VirtualBox. PLEASE HELP! Thanks for the information!

 

[vmem]

it's pretty normal for windows 7 64-bit to eat up a little over 2GB of ram by itself... why the panic? I typically run 2 to 2.5 GB of ram usage on windows 8.1 64-bit, and can go up to 8GB of ram-usage or more depending on what I'm running. never had any problems

 

[junkeymonkey]

some programs like chrome can be hogs just google -- chrome uses too much memory-- some folks found removing just that solved the issue ... so good luck

 

[CompGee]

The panic? I only have 2GB of RAM in my computer!

 

[inerax]

The panic? I only have 2GB of RAM in my computer!

Above you said "The system I am running on right now has 16GB RAM"

What is the specs of this computer?

 

[CompGee]

The system is a prebuilt. It is a Gateway FX something. That is the system I am using right now. The computer I will swap the drive with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit into is a no-name generic computer.

 

[inerax]

The system is a prebuilt. It is a Gateway FX something. That is the system I am using right now. The computer I will swap the drive with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit into is a no-name generic computer.

So 2 computers involved here.

The one in question, did the come with windows 7 or did you upgrade? If it did not come with windows 7 what OS did it come with?

Can you upgrade the ram?

 

[CompGee]

What computer are you talking about? The no-name generic one or the high-end Gateway?

EDIT: I restarted but I am still using close to 3GB.

 

[inerax]

What computer are you talking about? The no-name generic one or the high-end Gateway?

EDIT: I restarted but I am still using close to 3GB.

The computer that is using 3GB of memory. Did that come with windows 7 pre-installed?

 

[CompGee]

The computer came with Windows 7 Home Edition on a internal drive. I haven't TOUCHED that drive. I have another drive that I pulled from my other computer. I put that drive in one of the 3.5 inch SATA bays, accessible from the front. I installed Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on the drive that I installed. That is the Windows 7 Pro drive I will soon swap back into the computer with 2GB of RAM.

 

[CompGee]

Hello?

 

[inerax]

Hello?

I guess i just dont see the problem.... yes, if you use all your memory it will load into the HDD. Why not get a usb stick thats 4-8GB and format exFAT?

 

[CompGee]

Use the USB stick as a RAMdisk?

 

[CompGee]

Hello??

 

[CompGee]

Anybody???