Hmm , is this right?

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At idle my task manager is telling me that 35% of my RAM is being used and 4% of my CPU.. I have norton internet security installed.. If that maybe anything to do with it.
 
If you're running Win7, it's just temporarily using it to run background tasks. If you opened enough apps it'd redirect usage to that.
 
Get rid of norton,well known to be very cpu taxing and uses a lot of resources ie slows computer down,also has a very bad detection rate .

You will prob have to search for a Norton cleaner on google also to uninstall the program.

For a good free alternative you want to be using one of these :

Avast

Microsoft Security Essentials

Avira
 
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Devrij said:
If you're running Win7, it's just temporarily using it to run background tasks. If you opened enough apps it'd redirect usage to that.
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Thanks for your quick reply . Yes I am using Windows 7 64 Bit , So this is perfectly normal then?
 
kmufc77 said:
Get rid of norton,well known to be very cpu taxing.

You will prob have to search for Norton cleaner on google also.

For a good free alternative you want to be using one of these :

Avast

Microsoft Security Essentials

Avira
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I would but seeing as I am only a teen (14) my dad insists on me having norton on the computer :rolleyes: .
 
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I use to have problems with Norton eating up resources and starting cpu intensive tasks when you are gaming. I decided not to renew my subscription, but in the meantime saw that I was entitled to download the latest version of Norton 360 on my current subscription. I have no more problems. Just as bad as it used to be I am now willing to vouch for them as a very good non intrusive product that only does it's stuff when my PC is idle.

I know Norton get's slated badly and I used to be one of those, but I am really pleased with them these days. I have a really low spec (5year old PC) so if it does not affect me then the product must be working well. So my advice would be make sure if it is Norton giving you problems and if it is make sure you have the latest version available.
 
I have 4GB of ram and using Windows 7 64 bit, and with the OS and the background apps (not opened Firefox/IE), it uses around 800MB-1GB of memory (roughly 20-25%).

If you have 4GB of memory, and OS plus background apps alone eating 35%, I would imagine you have some apps eating quite a bit of your ram.
 
You can disable superfetch and that will mean that your RAM is managed more in the way that Windows XP would manage it. I think superfetch just has a guess at what you often use and pre-loads some of it into RAM ready for faster use but still treats it as free RAM should you need it. I tried disabling superfetch for a while and the only difference I noticed was that GTA4 took much longer to load, maybe about 3x as long.
 
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