The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Dell studio VGA problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by nikkiarora, Apr 30, 2010.

  1. nikkiarora

    nikkiarora Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi,
    I bought dell studio 15 laptop with
    core i5 processor
    4GB RAM and 1GB ATI dedicated VGA. But now my VGA total memory showing as 2070MB and my RAM usage is 1.2GB(no applications are running).

    I think my VGA share my RAM memory also. Please can anyone tell me how to reduce this RAM usage and VGA memory ?
    :mad:
     
    nikkiarora, Apr 30, 2010
    #1
  2. Zenoru

    Zenoru Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    101
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I'm not sure about the VGA memory, but you might be able to reduce your RAM usage by disabling certain processes from starting up. Press Windows + R, then type "msconfig" (without the quotes). From there you can go to the startup tab and choose which services/processes to load when the computer boots up. It might be that there is a lot of bloatware or unnecessary programs on the computer (if you didn't clean install), and sometimes those run as background processes.
     
    Zenoru, Apr 30, 2010
    #2