My laptop has 8gb of ram and when idle, uses around 4.7-5gb (or60%) of it. Is this normal? If it isn’t, how do I get it down to the ‘normal’ levels? This is a new laptop as well, so I don’t have much installed on it.
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Yes, 60% is normal especially with 8gb.
This is because unused ram is wasted ram.
Windows know this so it uses some of the unused ram to speed things up by for example putting frequently used apps in ram so they start quicker. It will free up that ram when you need it (like for a game). In your case with 8gb i don’t think it’s doing a lot of that, but this is why you see a lot of ram used by windows even when you have 32gb.
This is normal from ram caching. If you get sudden slowdowns and run out of free memory, then you should become concerned.
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