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Question

Windows 10 takes up much ram space

May 20, 2017 4:55AM PDT

Hi!
My name's Huy. I use windows 10 on the computer. When it comes to windows, it only accounts for 40% of the ram, and after surfing the net the ram is 99%. Then when I shut down firefox then the ram capacity is 66% occupied even without using any software.
My PC: Core I3 7100, DDR4 8GB, VGA Gigabyte 5770 1GB, SSD 120GB, HDD Western 2GB.
Can you help me?
Thank you!

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It's a VM OS so
May 20, 2017 7:45AM PDT

On a VM OS like Linux, Apple OS, Windows, all RAM should be used, even if for a trivial purpose.

Why? That's what a VM (virtual memory) OS should do.

If you feel this is wrong you have to find a non-VM OS.

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RAM
May 21, 2017 6:40PM PDT

How many apps running on the background? I never get 99% usage even with serious cases.

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I would evaluate
May 22, 2017 4:42AM PDT

what you have running at startup. You can see process that start at startup in the startup tab of task manager.