W7 RAM used with 0 programs open

[Lopez]

Hello,

I just bought a new laptop but i think it uses too much ram with no program ,opened :S i have a w7 x64 home edition premium, 4 gb ram ddr3, a quad processor i720qm grafic card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 with 1gb ddr3....so now with google chrome opened it uses 40% of the ram :S

1) is this normal?
2) can i put 2x4gb ram?

Here are all infos with Belarc Advisor program:

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)
HP model: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC 048D100000242B20000020000

Main Circuit Board:
Board: Hewlett-Packard 1448 65.19
Bus Clock: 1066 megahertz
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard F.07 05/17/2010
Memory Modules:

4030 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'Bottom - Slot 1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'Bottom - Slot 2' has 2048 MB

Grafic card:
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 with 1GB DDR3


I dont know what u need more, just ask... i dont know very much about coputers

 

[Cameldude]

so when you look at the highest usage of ram, what are the programs that are using ram... when you buy a laptop it comes with crap lots of little programs.. hate that, so i always reinstall when buy new things!!!..
How many processes do you have running, for example when you start up your laptop, i have 37 processes. my ram is around 28/30 %, i have similar laptop so could be compared. 40% is not really high, but for idle with "no extra programs running" a bit high!!!
for your second point yes you can, but make sure your laptop supports it!!!

 

[Lopez]

so when you look at the highest usage of ram, what are the programs that are using ram... when you buy a laptop it comes with crap lots of little programs.. hate that, so i always reinstall when buy new things!!!..
How many processes do you have running, for example when you start up your laptop, i have 37 processes. my ram is around 28/30 %, i have similar laptop so could be compared. 40% is not really high, but for idle with "no extra programs running" a bit high!!!
for your second point yes you can, but make sure your laptop supports it!!!

I have 70 ( if you mean the thing we can see in ctrl+alt+suppr, in french is proccesus so i think is that you mean), how can i remove them?

 

[Cameldude]

70 ooooo, wowowowow, that's why you have so much Ram being used, go to start, type msconfig, press enter, go to the startup tab and untick everything that you do not need, as well as this, remove any programs that you do not need through control panel...
if you have a windows disk you might want to think of reinstalling, if you know how to, its really not that difficult you will find instructions on the web...