Good evening everyone,
just a few days ago I've moved on from Win 7 home premium to Win 8.1 pro (official distribution channels only ) and i've ran into some problems... I wasn't able to google my problem (maybe i just didn't know how to formulate my problem since i'm not a native english speaker), so I am politely asking you guys...
My computer keeps telling me that I'm running out of memory, yet when i open taskmgr, this is what i get:
First off, i don't even know how much memory I'm using atm. 2.3gigs ("In Use"), or maybe 3.4gigs (top right corner, memory tab), or maybe even 5.1gigs. I mean, what?!
Now when committed memory reaches full 6gigs, apps start to crash (i do not use virtual memory), even though "In Use" memory is only around 3gigs (and that's about right - when i opened a few chrome tabs, a few PDFs and a Visual Studio plus Keil IDE back in windows 7, I always ended up using just around 3-3.5gigs).
So where did that other 3gigs of memory go and can I fix this somehow?
The computer is not exactly cutting edge stuff, apart from the ssd (overclocked Q6600 on P45 chipset, 6gigs of DDR2 memory, ati radeon 5770, HyperX3K 120GB SSD), but it had no problems running windows 7 and all my apps (and it still had half the memory free), so why this?
Thank you for your time, if you need any more information, i'll provide.
F.
P.S. and there's another thing that i could use some help with - i have limited access to my system disk even as an administrator (for example, none of my apps can write directly to the root folder, unless given administrator permission - and since i often use files like "C:\testdata.fileextension" for convenience, it annoys me quite a bit. Also some of my apps can't even save their own config files, because they can't write into their own Program Files folder! What the hell!).
just a few days ago I've moved on from Win 7 home premium to Win 8.1 pro (official distribution channels only ) and i've ran into some problems... I wasn't able to google my problem (maybe i just didn't know how to formulate my problem since i'm not a native english speaker), so I am politely asking you guys...
My computer keeps telling me that I'm running out of memory, yet when i open taskmgr, this is what i get:
First off, i don't even know how much memory I'm using atm. 2.3gigs ("In Use"), or maybe 3.4gigs (top right corner, memory tab), or maybe even 5.1gigs. I mean, what?!
Now when committed memory reaches full 6gigs, apps start to crash (i do not use virtual memory), even though "In Use" memory is only around 3gigs (and that's about right - when i opened a few chrome tabs, a few PDFs and a Visual Studio plus Keil IDE back in windows 7, I always ended up using just around 3-3.5gigs).
So where did that other 3gigs of memory go and can I fix this somehow?
The computer is not exactly cutting edge stuff, apart from the ssd (overclocked Q6600 on P45 chipset, 6gigs of DDR2 memory, ati radeon 5770, HyperX3K 120GB SSD), but it had no problems running windows 7 and all my apps (and it still had half the memory free), so why this?
Thank you for your time, if you need any more information, i'll provide.
F.
P.S. and there's another thing that i could use some help with - i have limited access to my system disk even as an administrator (for example, none of my apps can write directly to the root folder, unless given administrator permission - and since i often use files like "C:\testdata.fileextension" for convenience, it annoys me quite a bit. Also some of my apps can't even save their own config files, because they can't write into their own Program Files folder! What the hell!).
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel Q6600
- Motherboard
- Asus P5Q
- Memory
- 6GB A-Data Vitesta DDR2-800MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon 5770
- Hard Drives
- Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB and four Seagate Barracudas LP 2TB (Two Raid1 configurations)
- PSU
- Seasonic M12II 620W
- Cooling
- Scythe Ninja and a few Noctua fans