Windows 7 uses a lot of RAM when idling

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This has happened ever since I got my laptop. I noticed that my windows 7 uses above 1.55GB just idling. I mean im doing nothing! Right now it uses a little bit more because I have a few programs that start up such as SugarSync(cloud storage) and lightscreen(for

taking multiple screenshots without having to save them manually.) Right now those programs are using 14,864 K (lightscreen) and 27,192 K (SugarSync). I like speed so I have disabled many programs for startup in msconfig. These consist of Adobe reader, Apple

Push, Facebook update, Google update, GoogleDrive, Hp Quick Launch, Hp QuickWeb, iTunes, Logitech Download Assistant, SansaDispatch, HP LaunchBox, Skype, Steam, and Microsoft OneNote. So I have very few programs that I kept up. My virus protection is Kaspersky.

The reason I bring this up is that I need the RAM because I sometimes run a minecraft server and minecraft client with a few other programs on such as Skype and internet explorer(by the way I switched from chome to IE10 because I love the metro look and how

it performs.) The thing that bugs me is that when I look at another windows 7 computer or my friends windows 7 computer they all use about 1.2GB of RAM or less. How come mine uses so much? Is there a way to have Windows 7 use less RAM?

 

 

My specs are:

 

 

Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit)

 

6GB RAM

 

AMD A8 3520M APU with HD Radeon Graphics with 1.60GHz

 

I bout this laptop about a year ago.

 

 

 

 

EDIT: This just happened a few minutes after I posted this and it has never happened to me before. I was browsing on a tech news website when all of a sudden my computer made a medium *BOOP* sound. the mouse started to lag then stopped all together. The

fan got louder and louder and I couldn't do anything. I had to force restart and now all seems fine. Any ideas on what that was?

 

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