Hello!!
I must tell you in the beginning itself that I have not been able to read the tutorial on memory, since the link is not working. So plz excuse me if I miss any related-points.
I recently reinstalled Windows 7 Home Basic on my Dell Inspiron N5050 with 4GB RAM (I was dissatisfied with Windows 10 with which I had performance issues). After the downgrade, I installed the following: 1.) drivers recommended by Windows upgrade advisor, 2.) Kaspersky Internet security and 3.) MS Office professional plus 2013. In addition to these, I have two statistical packages which I can't do without in my work, Eviews 7 (185 MB space on the drive) and Stata 11 (1.7 GB space) in G-drive.
But when I began using Windows 7 again, the system was too slow. For instance, programs would take ages to open and too long to respond thereafter for each operation. When I checked RAM usage at idle after start up, it would be 25-30% for a minute or two and thereafter zoom to 95-98%. After contacting Microsoft and having troubleshooting done through them, the RAM usage would hover at 95% for 2-3 minutes and then drop to around 75% and settle there, which is high nevertheless. I tried various options for troubleshooting by reading on forums like these: such as booting in safe mode. I must specifically mention that when I boot in safe mode though, RAM usage does not exceed 12% at any point in time. So I guess the core drivers aren't the problematic ones. But how do I know what exactly is causing the problem?
In one of the posts here, we were directed to first identify the driver that is causing this problem by using WinDbg tool and Microsoft symbol server. However, I couldn't resort to this method since the symbol-server's link does not work. Please guide me in reducing my memory usage. Thanks a lot.
I must tell you in the beginning itself that I have not been able to read the tutorial on memory, since the link is not working. So plz excuse me if I miss any related-points.
I recently reinstalled Windows 7 Home Basic on my Dell Inspiron N5050 with 4GB RAM (I was dissatisfied with Windows 10 with which I had performance issues). After the downgrade, I installed the following: 1.) drivers recommended by Windows upgrade advisor, 2.) Kaspersky Internet security and 3.) MS Office professional plus 2013. In addition to these, I have two statistical packages which I can't do without in my work, Eviews 7 (185 MB space on the drive) and Stata 11 (1.7 GB space) in G-drive.
But when I began using Windows 7 again, the system was too slow. For instance, programs would take ages to open and too long to respond thereafter for each operation. When I checked RAM usage at idle after start up, it would be 25-30% for a minute or two and thereafter zoom to 95-98%. After contacting Microsoft and having troubleshooting done through them, the RAM usage would hover at 95% for 2-3 minutes and then drop to around 75% and settle there, which is high nevertheless. I tried various options for troubleshooting by reading on forums like these: such as booting in safe mode. I must specifically mention that when I boot in safe mode though, RAM usage does not exceed 12% at any point in time. So I guess the core drivers aren't the problematic ones. But how do I know what exactly is causing the problem?
In one of the posts here, we were directed to first identify the driver that is causing this problem by using WinDbg tool and Microsoft symbol server. However, I couldn't resort to this method since the symbol-server's link does not work. Please guide me in reducing my memory usage. Thanks a lot.
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