I have recently notice that my computer is using 2gb of ram with no aplications running why is this? Its suposed to only take up 1 gb to run it. This really bothers me why Im using soo much ram. I have 4 gb of ram total its DRR2 as far as I know.
 

 
 
Also explorer.exe is taking up more Ram than normal.
 
 
 
 
If anyone knows anyway to help me it would be great!  

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Your Toast Has Been Burnt, and No Amount Of Scraping Will Remove The Black Parts!

hmmm weird have you made any changes to explorer.exe or anyware in the registry???

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Well, I have XP and my explorer never takes less than 75,000K RAM. So it's not unusual for Vista, I guess.
 
The requirement for XP is 128MB minimum or so and 256MB recommended. Yet mine never takes less than 500MB. I guess Microsoft lies a lot.

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One forum at a time.

XP usually takes around 600mb max, and vista around 1gib due to additional processes.
antivirus etc take around 50mb max.
 
also, there is an option to keep all drivers etc in RAM memory or paged memory as needed, and to prefer programs than system processes.

I also agree with truth
Since Windows Vista comes with several additions (Which I won't say very attractive) Those can take some to lot of your memory
As this thread says If you're using 'Windows Aero + Side Bar + Tool Tip
This can cause some burden on your RAM
 
turtle bacon
But I can't accept your saying of 2GB RAM usage as normal becausa if  that is so, I may not be able to do anything with Vista in my computer
So better to check for any abnormally running processes (This may not be easy as it implies but persons with knowledge can give you some hand

Ok I see. But After running a virus scan (AVG) I found over 100 tracker cookies that FirFox had let in....  
I Deleted them and lowerd my explorer.exe about 30,000k!   and Ram usage by 1%
 
 

 
 
 
 
Also There is a lot I mean A LOT of bloatware on my laptop. Is that in anyway efecting my ram usage?

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Your Toast Has Been Burnt, and No Amount Of Scraping Will Remove The Black Parts!

Good you found the tracker cookies, I had the same problem before on Vista - let in by FireFox here as well

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Yes I knew firefox was to good to be true....

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Your Toast Has Been Burnt, and No Amount Of Scraping Will Remove The Black Parts!

mine on xp is like 15,490 or something but then you think about windowblinds...etc etc

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I have no idea how I did it but I lowed my ram usage to 1.43gbs!!

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Your Toast Has Been Burnt, and No Amount Of Scraping Will Remove The Black Parts!

How do I delete tracking cookies using kaspersky???
I wonder thats what starting to eat up mine??

You can use cCleaner.
also try  deactivating useless windows services.

I ran a complet hdd scan useing avg. P.s. kaspersky sucks.... But thats just my opinion

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Your Toast Has Been Burnt, and No Amount Of Scraping Will Remove The Black Parts!

One of my friends has Kaspersky - the full deal - and I still spend half my time fixing his computer of viruses and cookies. And overheating after he leaves it on in an aeroplane...

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Get CCleaner, select Tools, then the Startup, and delete/disable all the crap.
Or just post a screenshot of it, and I'll tell what is crap.

I just ran CCleaner and wiped 2Gbs of crap outta my computer

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