The easiest way to Check your device RAM

On Windows

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Open Start. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

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Open Settings. You will click the gear icon in the lower left corner of the Start window. This is the operation to open the Settings window.

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Click System . This option has a laptop icon and is displayed in the upper left corner of the window.

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Click the About tab . You'll see a tab in the lower-left corner of the System window. This shows you information related to the computer.

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See "Installed RAM" (Installed RAM). This is the information in the "Device specifications" section near the center of the page. The number displayed to the right of the "Installed RAM" heading is the amount of RAM installed on your computer.

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Check the amount of RAM in use on the computer. If you want to know how much RAM your computer uses (or how much it consumes at a given time), check with the Task Manager program.

Doing this while a program is open will tell you how much RAM that program needs to work.

How to know if the RAM is faulty? The computer network engineer said: "Two things that help you to recognize faulty RAM is that the computer won't start or shows a blue screen. These are the two main problems that often occur when RAM fails.

On Mac

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Open the Apple menu. Click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen. A menu will appear here.

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Click About This Mac . This is an option in the currently displayed menu. The About This Mac window will appear on the screen.

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Click the Overview tab . You'll see this tab in the upper-left corner of the About This Mac window.

The Overview tab usually shows up by default when you open About This Mac.

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See the heading "Memory". The number displayed to the right of the "Memory" heading indicates the amount of RAM installed on the Mac and the type of RAM being used on the device.

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Check the amount of RAM in use of your Mac. If you want to know how much RAM your Mac uses (or how much it consumes at a given time), check with the Activity Monitor program.

This will open a window that tells you how much RAM a certain program needs to work properly.

On iPad

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Open the iPad's App Store app. Tap the App Store app with the "A" icon on a blue background.

Your iPad must have at least iOS 7 operating system to use the app in this method.

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Search for the Smart Memory Lite app. You'll tap the search bar in the upper-right corner of the screen, then type smart memory lite and tap the blue Search button in the lower-right corner of the keyboard.

If you don't see the search bar, first make sure you've opened the correct tab by tapping Featured in the lower-left corner of the screen.

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Find the app called "Smart Memory Lite". Usually you'll see the name of the app near the top of the search results.

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Tap GET (Get). This is the option to the right of the Smart Memory Lite app.

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Enter Touch ID when asked. Scan your Touch ID fingerprint to allow iPad to download apps.

If your iPad doesn't use Touch ID, you'll tap Install at the bottom of the screen when asked and enter your Apple ID password.

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Open Smart Memory Lite. Tap OPEN in the App Store after the app finishes downloading, or tap the Smart Memory Lite app's computer chip icon.

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View your iPad's total RAM. In the lower-right corner of the screen, you'll see a circle with a number inside - this is the total amount of RAM installed on your iPad.

Unlike most computers, you can't install more RAM on your iPad.

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Check the amount of RAM in use of the iPad. Blue, red, green, and gray bars displayed near the bottom of the screen show the iPad's allocation of RAM in use, fixed RAM usage, free RAM, and system RAM usage.

You can also see the percentage of actual RAM in use on your iPad on the right side of the screen.

Marvin Fry

Update 21 February 2022