My RAM looked almost full in Windows, until I opened this Microsoft tool.

When I look through the memory graph on Task Manager on my 8GB computer, I mostly feel like I’m running out of RAM. It’s created a worry that has stayed at the back of my mind whenever I use my device. When I checked, RAM usage was at 91%, and I felt I needed to investigate.

This time I went with RAMMap, a free tool from Microsoft’s own Sysinternals suite. It sorts RAM in a way that makes it almost immediately understandable, and it revealed something different from what I expected.