How to Check Memory Capacity

This wikiHow teaches you how to check random access memory (RAM) and hard drive space on your computer.

Table of Contents

Check RAM usage on Windows

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Press Alt + Ctrl and Delete . The task management menu of your Windows computer will open.

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Click Task Manager . This is the last option on the page.

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Click the Performance tab. The option is at the top of the “Task Manager” window.

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Click the Memory tab in the upper right of the “Task Manager” window. You’ll see how much of your computer’s RAM is being used in a graph near the top of the page, or in the numbers below the “In use (Compressed)” heading.

Check hard drive space on Windows

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Double-click “My PC” with the desktop icon usually located on the desktop.

On some versions of Windows, “My PC” is “My Computer”.
If you can’t find “My PC” on the desktop, type “My PC” in the search bar on the Start window and then click the desktop icon when the option pops up.

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Right click on the hard drive icon C: . The option is under the “Devices and drives” heading in the middle of the “My Computer” page.

In some versions of Windows, the word “OS” will appear above the hard drive.

Check RAM usage on Mac

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Click the magnifying glass “Spotlight” button in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Type “Activity Monitor” in the search bar. The “Activity Monitor” application will appear.

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Click Activity Monitor . The Activity Monitor program will appear, where you can see the current RAM consumption of your Mac computer.

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Click Memory . This tab is at the top of the Activity Monitor window.

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Look at the “Memory Used” number at the bottom of the page. The number “Physical Memory” here represents the amount of RAM installed on the Mac computer, and the number “Memory Used” is the amount of RAM that the Mac computer is using.

Check Hard Drive Space on Mac

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Click the apple-shaped Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your Mac’s screen.

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Click About This Mac . The option is near the top of the drop-down menu.

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Click Storage . The option is near the top of the “About This Mac” page. Under the “Storage” tab, you’ll see a colored chart of the file types that are using memory.

You can also see your current amount of free storage in the upper-right corner of the page under “X GB free of Y GB,” where “X” is your Mac’s free space and “Y” is the total. the amount of memory on your Mac computer.

Check hard drive space on iPhone

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Open Settings on iPhone. The app has a gray gear icon on the Home screen.

Due to the limitations of the operating system, we cannot see the amount of RAM usage on the iPhone.

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Tap General near the bottom of the screen.

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Tap Storage & iCloud Usage . Options are at the bottom of the screen.

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Click Manage Storage in the “Storage” section at the top of the page. The list of applications in order from taking up the most memory to taking up the least memory on the device will appear. In addition, the “Used” and “Available” sections at the top of the page will show the used and free space on iPhone (in that order).

Click the second Manage Storage entry on the page to open the iCloud page, where you can see how much storage space is left on the iCloud Drive drive.

Check memory and RAM capacity on Android

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Open Settings on Android. The app has a gray gear icon, located in the App Drawer.

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Scroll down and tap Apps . This option is in the “Device” section.

On some Androids (like Samsung Galaxy), you need to tap Device first and then Apps .

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Swipe left on the “Apps” page. The “SD Card” page will open with information about the memory card capacity currently in use in the lower left corner and the total memory capacity in the lower right corner of the screen.

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Swipe left on the “SD Card” page. The “Running” tab with currently running programs will appear.

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Check out other categories. The top of the page has 3 values that will show how much RAM your Android device uses:

System – The number of GB occupied by the Android device’s operating system.
Apps – Number of GB used by running apps.
Free – The remaining GB of RAM.

Advice

RAM is memory that is distributed among different processes (such as applications or programs) to operate. Hard drive memory, on the other hand, stores all the files, folders, or programs on the computer – regardless of whether they are running or not.

Warning

If some malicious process is taking up a significant amount of memory space, you need to check the device with anti-virus software.
Only remove processes that you are certain are not key components of the system. You can easily corrupt and be unable to recover the files or data that the operating system needs to run.

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