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16GB Ram - Force Windows 7 to use as much RAM as possible?
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Mar 15, 2026108490 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I was wondering if there is any way to configure Windows to consume MORE ram. I have a desktop PC with 16 GB of ram and only 2 is used on a normal workload. The maximum which i witnessed till now is 6 GB. Is there any way to tell Windows to tune its inner working for such an environment?
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It likely already is using it. In this example: Total RAM: 12GB Used: 4.45GB You would think there's 7.55GB of unused RAM. Wrong. Windows uses it as caching, either by keeping previously used data that is not required anymore, or by loading up frequ…
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