Arkie

my wife's old machine is not using a SSD yet. so no, i don't have any software that does that.

No luck. Still same. Just waaay slower boot time. I'm going to turn it back on.

I just disables disk cache. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-disable-disk-write-caching-windows-7-8 After rebooting now. Reboot is taking forever. Update you in a bit.

Hi, Done this and still getting the same results after reboot.

Thanks for the response. Bios is detecting 16 but windows showing 16 but only 7.9 usable

Sorry for the I complete message its RAM

Found guides online tweaking msconfig etc. None of them have worked for me. The last time this happened only a fresh install worked to get all me memory back. Does anyone know of a solution without having to completely reinstall windows? Thanks