Computer questions

[davless152009]

ok i got a few random questions one is at times on my hard drive i notice a gig disapears out of no where i do disc clean up nothing its still gone i looked in the windows error files hell i looked in every log file nothing where did the gig go why do hard drives do that its done that since i firsat owned a pc with hard drive that has gbs but anyways it was at 851 and i didnt install nothing save noting did nothing and its at 850 why? and how do i get it back to 851?

my 2nd question this is for my online pc i installed 4gbs of ram 1gb a peice in each slot it has 4 ddr 2 slots filled up with 1gbs of 4gb and it still says 3.37 usable and 4.00gb installed why is it saying 3.37usable and how do i fix that?

[a bee]

System managed swapfile for the first question.

32-bit Windows limits your usable ram to 3.5GB for the second question. Fix it by going 64-bit.

[davless152009]

System managed swapfile for the first question.

32-bit Windows limits your usable ram to 3.5GB for the second question. Fix it by going 64-bit.

ok thank you for helping me out there i turned off the virtial ram and set it at 0 now i got all my gigs back on my offline gaming pc

and thabnks again for the help with my online computer i will upgrade it to 64 bit like my gaming computer

[a bee]

Don't turn off virtual memory. That would make it worse.

[Shinobi_Returns]

yeah, Virtual memory helps manage your physical memory usage lol.

in this day in age, you have no reason to not use 64 bit. Almost all processors after 2005 have AMD64 or EM64T (Intel's 64 bit instruction set)

[AutoSaver]

yeah, Virtual memory helps manage your physical memory usage lol.

in this day in age, you have no reason to not use 64 bit. Almost all processors after 2005 have AMD64 or EM64T (Intel's 64 bit instruction set)

I remember 64 Bit being really loud on my PC.

I might upgrade in the future... FAR OFF future.

[a bee]

I've been using a 64-bit computer for 7 years. Upgrade now.

[AutoSaver]

I've been using a 64-bit computer for 7 years. Upgrade now.

200 dollars for a 64 bit upgrade

WHY!?

[Shinobi_Returns]

200 dollars for a 64 bit upgrade

WHY!?

when you get a new PC you probably should, though if you get a pre built like a chud muffin it'll come with 64 bit on it most likely. unless you pay like 500 dollars for it lol

[davless152009]

how does it make things worse turning it off it seems when its on it eats gigs off your hard drive and it doesnt give them back and then when it comes down to you not having anymore gigs means you cant install or play or do nothing and that stuff makes the hard drive run harder wich makes the disc inside it go bad faster and my dell 620 and my old dell 560 are both 64 bit they came with 64bit what pc doesnt now days 64bit is forced now when you buy any new pcs its my online dell dimensions thats the 32bit and has 4gb but says 3.37 usable and itsd a intel duo penteium d runs 2.80ghz and another 2.79ghz has 2 cores and 2 logical prosscessors and my offline is 2 cores and 4 logical and it has 6gb ram to back it up so again i dont see how it would make it worse if anything turning a hard drive into ram would run the pc harder