8GBs of RAM, 6.72 usable...

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Hi, I recentlu installed Windowd Embedded Standart 7 with hopes to be very tiny and with low-resources usage OS, but after a lot of problems I have finally got everything to work just fine, except a memory problem.

First I have problems with my GeForce graphics card, but after chatting with nVidia customer care we solved the problem... after some hours of testing. But now, after the correct install of the nVidia drivers, Windows shows me taht only 6.72GBs of 8 RAM are usable. I have installed all chipset and other Intel-releated drivers, because I red that it may be a CPU related issue but theres no any effect. In the control panel shows, that my GT650M is using 4096 GB of ram, 2GBs of its own and another 2 from the system memory. I know Windows does this every time, but this time it seems that the ram is reserved permanently. Task maager is also showing me the same thing (6878mb ram) and yesterday I ran out of memory...

So, are there any solutions? Thanks! :)

P.S. The machine is Lenovo Ideapad Y500 laptop with i7 cpu, 8GB of ram, GT650M with 2GB dedicated memory gpu and 500GB wd blue drive.
 
No this is a design specification, as that sort of machine listed would throttle back to the normal Intel video chipset during 2D applications (Word, email, etc.) then throttle higher to the GT650M for performance needs (Video editing, Gaming, etc. ). This is a hardware design for laptops for many years now.

WHY on earth may I ask would you want to install on that old but nice system (is what I have for my Alienware m17xR2 but with 16GB of RAM) Windows Embedded Standard instead of just plain old Windows 7? Seems like your more reinventing the wheel by using a square block and refusing to get a round tire already made?
 
@i7Baby: Windows Embedded OS is primarily used for things like ATMs, POS, etc. even manufacturing machines (making the toothpicks or show eyelets) use the Embedded OS. But these designs are normally made to embed the software onto hardware and 'lock' the OS from any other manipulation except through (like BIOS) specialized updates or changed. It isn't a 'normal' OS .