High laptop ram usage

[ElectroBrocoli]

Hi, i have an laptop, it is the lenovo ideapad 300, running with intel celeron n3150 @1.60GHz and 2 gb or ddr3 ram. now this laptop always have a high ram usage eventhough i'm not running any apps at all. it have some 3D rendering apps goin on there, but when i check its task manager it only use a bit of the ram. any sugestion how to decrease the ram usage ?

[SignatureSigner]

If you have 2gb of ddr3 ram get some more ram! I'm assuming that you mistyped that!

[ElectroBrocoli]

Just now, SignatureSigner said:

If you have 2gb of ddr3 ram get some more ram! I'm assuming that you mistyped that!

ah yes some typo, well i don't wanna to open this laptop because of the frames of it is broke apart and it closes the access for the screwhole, and also i have a similar setup which is my main station, it runs more apps than my laptop and have the same ram, but less CPU core, and it also run pretty smoothly. well i'll try to add more ram

[LogicalDrm]

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You give too little info to help you. Like what OS? If you have 64bit OS, I would say get 32bit instead. Those are for the systems with less than 4gb of RAM. For example just 64bit Win10 alone uses over 1gig of RAM.

 

Also what are the other systems specs and OS if things are better on it?

[ElectroBrocoli]

6 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

-> Moved to Laptops and Pre-Build Systems

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You give too little info to help you. Like what OS? If you have 64bit OS, I would say get 32bit instead. Those are for the systems with less than 4gb of RAM. For example just 64bit Win10 alone uses over 1gig of RAM.

 

Also what are the other systems specs and OS if things are better on it?

so my choice is either getting more RAM or downgrading my system to 32 bit ?, i would say i'll pick RAM, since not only it's not affecting my data, but also saving time

[ElectroBrocoli]

hi, in my last post i said that my laptop is slow, and i guess it was the ram fault. turns out that it was because NewHeur.Level (9) virus that my SMADAV 2016 detected recently. now my smadav said it was quarantined to eliminated any chance it download more viruses. any sugestion to remove newheur ?

 

[starry]

1 minute ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

hi, in my last post i said that my laptop is slow, and i guess it was the ram fault. turns out that it was because NewHeur.Level (9) virus that my SMADAV 2016 detected recently. now my smadav said it was quarantined to eliminated any chance it download more viruses. any sugestion to remove newheur ?

 

Reinstall windows, and dont use a weird antivirus. Just use windows defender, it works fine.

[fuzz0r]

3 minutes ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

hi, in my last post i said that my laptop is slow, and i guess it was the ram fault. turns out that it was because NewHeur.Level (9) virus that my SMADAV 2016 detected recently. now my smadav said it was quarantined to eliminated any chance it download more viruses. any sugestion to remove newheur ?

 

Quarantining it should effectively stop it from working.

As far as downloading more viruses, where'd you get that one?

[starry]

Or you could try installing Lubuntu, better option for older hardware.

https://lubuntu.me/

[ElectroBrocoli]

12 minutes ago, starry said:

Or you could try installing Lubuntu, better option for older hardware.

https://lubuntu.me/

my laptop was released in 2015 where windows 10 is announced i guess, and it uses SMADAV from that point till now without any problem, and also idk where i got this virus. bta my laptop is running intel celeron N3150 @1.60GHz with 2GB of DDR3 ram (it run slower than my even older station)

[starry]

4 minutes ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

my laptop was released in 2015 where windows 10 is announced i guess, and it uses SMADAV from that point till now without any problem, and also idk where i got this virus. bta my laptop is running intel celeron N3150 @1.60GHz with 2GB of DDR3 ram (it run slower than my even older station)

Trying to run windows 10 with 2GB of ram is why its slow.

[ElectroBrocoli]

1 minute ago, starry said:

Trying to run windows 10 with 2GB of ram is why its slow.

i guess i also need more RAM, sadly it only have 1 SODIMM slot

[starry]

5 minutes ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

i guess i also need more RAM, sadly it only have 1 SODIMM slot

Installing something lighter than windows is a good alternative if you arent able to buy an upgrade.

[ElectroBrocoli]

4 minutes ago, starry said:

Installing something lighter than windows is a good alternative if you arent able to buy an upgrade.

the problem is, this is my dad laptop. he got a new laptop from his office, and then he gave me his old laptop. when i checked it, everything seems okay and there is a lot of windows file on there that my dad wants to keep, it was like a fucking ton. so that is why i rather choose ram than changin my OS

[starry]

1 minute ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

the problem is, this is my dad laptop. he got a new laptop from his office, and then he gave me his old laptop. when i checked it, everything seems okay and there is a lot of windows file on there that my dad wants to keep, it was like a fucking ton. so that is why i rather choose ram than changin my OS

Gotcha, hope you can get a RAM upgrade then.

[ElectroBrocoli]

1 minute ago, starry said:

Gotcha, hope you can get a RAM upgrade then.

Thx bro, here is a medal for ya 🎖

[LogicalDrm]

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No need to post multiple times about same subject. Besides, forum gets hundreds of threads daily. We have no idea what your last post even was. So better just update the previous.

[ElectroBrocoli]

14 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

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No need to post multiple times about same subject. Besides, forum gets hundreds of threads daily. We have no idea what your last post even was. So better just update the previous.

okay thx mr. moderator

[Chionele]

21 hours ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

the problem is, this is my dad laptop. he got a new laptop from his office, and then he gave me his old laptop. when i checked it, everything seems okay and there is a lot of windows file on there that my dad wants to keep, it was like a fucking ton. so that is why i rather choose ram than changin my OS

Seriously, backup those files elsewhere, get an SSD if you already don't and get a lighter OS. Adding some RAM won't solve your problem, at best it makes it a tiny bit more bearable, but chances are not even that..