How to Check the Amount of Memory Your Computer Has

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Michael Burton with Burton films dot org. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah. We are here talking about how to use Microsoft Windows. Now I want to talk to you about how to check the amount of memory that your computer has. There's a couple of ways to do this. I'm going to show you both. Let me start off by saying that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. Ok a couple of ways to check the amount of memory that your computer has. First thing you want to do is scroll over here and open your start menu. If you go to my computer over here on your right hand side and you left click on my computer, it will give you a couple of options. The easiest way is to scroll up here, see control panel, share documents, documents, my network, change the settings, add or remove programs, ding ding, view system information. Left click on that, this will ring up your system properties. Now if you scroll down on here, right down here, this will show you exactly how much memory you are running on your computer. This says you have two gigabytes of ram on this computer, that is to me a little slow but this computer has been a great computer. I haven't had any problems with it but this shows you the all the information about your system. What kind of computer it is, what you are running, how much memory you have, that to me is the easiest way to access this. Another way to access it is by coming over here to your, or actually lets close down the computer screen. The best, another way to do it is to go to the start menu, come up to where it says my computer and instead of opening it this time just right click on it, scroll down to properties, it will bring up the properties, there you go. Again the same exact screen that shows us right here, how much memory we have on the computer. Now to check out individual memory, like to see how much each program happens to be running, there's a couple of ways we can do this. You can hit control, alt, delete, which brings up your Windows task manager. This will allow you to show the applications that you are currently running. This will show you all of your processes that are running and on the right hand side right here, will show you the memory that is in usage from all these different programs. I guarantee you there's at least five or six or ten maybe programs on here that are running that I don't need running but guess what, I don't ever deal with this. It doesn't take up enough memory for me to even bother with it, but you can see each one of these takes up a certain percentage of memory and that's out of your total ram that you have on your computer. There's another way to bring up your task manager which I'm going to show you right now. The best, another way to do this, is to scroll down here to your actual task bar which is this bar right here along the bottom. And it shows all of your programs your start menu, over here it's got our quick, quick buttons, what you want to do, is on this task bar you want to right click with your mouse and right here it gives you an option for task manager. That's the same thing we did with the control, alt, delete, but this is just the way to do it with the mouse. That will bring up the exact same window, the exact same tabs up here that you can choose from. It shows your processes, it shows you exactly which programs and what files are running in the background and it shows how much memory that is, that they are using. Again it will show also your applications, what applications are currently running. This gives you a lot of information, it will show your performance, it will give you under the performance, it will talk to you about the different memories that are being used and how much. So you can kind of tell how much of your systems memories are being used out of that two gigabytes that we saw earlier."