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Vista does not seem to be reporting correct memory through taskbar

Posted: 04-24-2008, 06:35 PM
I have 32bit Vista Home Premium on my Dell inspiron with 4 gb of ram, and 128
mb discrete memory graphic card.

The system properties reports the memory as 4gb, while the task manager
reports the total physical memory as 3.5 gb, which is fine since part of the
memory is locked out due to memory addressing of the devices on the computer.

However, the usage statistics of the 3.5gb total physical memory do not seem
to be correct.

Task bar displays:
Physical Memory:
Total : 3581
Cached: 1864
Free: 895

Now my question is: why dont the numbers add up correctly?

Free + Cached != Total memory ..why so?

Where is almost 1 gb of memory disappearing to?

And moreover, the weirdest thing is that in the memory graph the memory
usage is 33% (around 1.16GB) which no where corresponds to the numbers
stated above!


help please!
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