The RAM that your computer has is no longer a mystery just by using these tools offered by Windows and Microsoft

RAM memory. That obscure object of desire in most of our equipment, be it tablets, mobile phones or computers. All the applications on our PC consume RAM and it may be that at some point we have had to know which one is consuming and how much we have available.

We can know all this information without having to depend on third-party tools. Microsoft has the necessary utilities to be able to access this data and doing so is very easy by simply following a series of steps that we are now going to detail.

RAM of our equipment

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The first step is to know the RAM that our computer has. To access this information we will go to the menu Settings by means of the gear icon that appears in the lower left area of ​​the screen, within the menuBeginning"

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Among all the options we will pay attention to the section System into which we proceed to enter. In it we can access the main settings of our equipment as well as obtain information about it."

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Within System we will see how in the left column there are different options. We will look at the titled About, which is the one that offers all the information about our team."

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In it, first you will see some Windows checks, and just below it appears the category Device Specifications. This section is the one that offers the information about the installed RAM."

Even more information

This is very basic information, which we can expand by installing this tool. Its name is RAMMap and it is a Microsoft utility that allows you to find out how Windows allocates physical memory, how much file data is stored in RAM or how much RAM uses the kernel and device drivers.

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RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1, and Windows 10 that through different tabs allows us to know and manage the RAM of our equipment. To do this, it is based on the use of a simplistic interface, similar to that of the old File Explorer>"

• Use Counts - Usage Summary by Type and Paging List
• Processes: Set sizes worker process.
• Priority Summary: Prioritized Waitlist Sizes
• Physical Pages: usage per page for all physical memory
• Physical Ranges: physical memory addresses.
• File Summary: File data in RAM per file
• File Details: Individual physical pages per file

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