Task manger says 80% of memory used, but is only using 2gb, my comp has 8gb. Whats going on?

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I was playing a game and it started running slowly, so I did a quick check in task manager to see how much of my RAM was being used. It says 80% of memory being used, and some quick addition puts the used RAM at about 2,100mb. My computer has 8bg of RAM in it so I do not understand why it says 80% when it should say about 25% and it never seems to go above 2-3gb. I am using Lenovo i5 intel with 8gb RAM - no graphics card it is some kind of integrated card into the processor, sorry I cant tell you more I basically know nothing about it. I really hope someone can help because I know this computer is more powerful than it is performing. It is 2 years old and has kind of always been like this.
 
Solution
I'll bet you are only adding up the RAM under YOUR user.
Your operating system needs RAM to keep itself running as well. This SYSTEM RAM usage will not show up under the user RAM usage.

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