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Laummatt

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Hello,
Firstly I am not tech savvy at all and not great with computers. My kids gaming pc seems to be using a lot of memory when barely doing much at all. Looking at the Task Manager there are lots of Service Host entries. Is there a good way to clean up the pc? We run Norton Virus for gamers and that's all up to date and ok.
 
Martinr36

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Can you post the full spec from your orders page

Remove Norton using the official removal tool and just use the inbuilt windows defender, programs such as norton are resource hogs and are as bad as what they are trying to defeat
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

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Looking at the memory used is a pointless exercise. Windows is designed to make use of as much RAM as it possibly can, whilst still ensuring that RAM can be made available should a new process or thread need it. As long as the PC is not having problems you're fine.

If you post the full specs from your PCS order we can help more.
 
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SpyderTracks

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Firstly you need to fully uninstall Norton using the official uninstaller, it’s utter trash anyway but will hugely slow down the pc

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But as @ubuysa says. Windows will use what RAM is in the system, the only time it’s a concern is if you see hard page faults as that means you’re exceeding what you have and writing to the page file on the disk
 
FerrariVie

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Laummatt said:
Hello,
Firstly I am not tech savvy at all and not great with computers. My kids gaming pc seems to be using a lot of memory when barely doing much at all. Looking at the Task Manager there are lots of Service Host entries. Is there a good way to clean up the pc? We run Norton Virus for gamers and that's all up to date and ok.
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Could you please share a print screen of what lead you to think that the memory usage is high?
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

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I have no idea where that display comes from, you don't have 32GB of RAM installed, nor does your PC have either of those CPUs installed, so whatever that is it's nonsense.

On the PC and laptop open the Task Manager (either search for Task Manager or enter the command taskmgr). Click on the Performance tab and then click on the Memory icon on the left. Post a screenshot of that display when you are working both PC and laptop as hard as you can (because that's when you'll be using the most RAM). I will explain what the numbers on those displays mean as far as RAM is concerned - and how to tell when you don't have enough.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

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I'm still happy to explain your RAM usage if you'd like to upload those Task Manager screenshots....
 
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