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How do I use my other 512mb of memory?

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I have an Acer Aspire 3610 with 1024mb of memory. Not knowing much about these things, it looks like the memory is split between drives C and D but only C is being utilised and has less than 10% capacity left of its 512mb. Can I move things like photos and my itunes library to the D drive to free up space?

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Your laptop came with 1024 MB of RAM (memory).  If the General Tab of the system properties is only showing 512 MB, it is because your video card is using the other 512 MB).

Your memory isn't split between C & D.  That is your Hard Drive.  More than likely that is 120 or more GB (gigabytes).  The hard drive has been partitioned (split) into 2 drives.  Drive C where Windows, all the programs you have installed and any documents you save are.

Drive D on most computers these days is your "backup partition".  This part of the Hard Drive you can not copy files to.  This partition was set up so that if you need to format your computer, you have all the necessary software to do this.
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The "memory" that it refers to is not an amount of storage!

It will refer to the amount of RAM that your computer has. RAM determines how fast things work/how quick things open/run.

Moving Photos and itunes will not make any difference to the speed of your computer.

EDIT - you need extra storage and an external hard-drive would do the trick!
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It is unclear if you're talking about memory of free space on your hard drive.

If you have 1024MB memory then you're probably talking about RAM. You couldn't possibly have a hard drive with 512MB or 1024MB if it was built within the last 10 years. If it's RAM, you can't "store" things on RAM like your photos and music. That stuff is stored on your hard drive, so forget about the memory and RAM numbers.

How much free space is actually on your hard drive?

And do you maybe have a USB jump drive plugged in, or something?
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no....you need to check your ram or your computer doesnt need to utilize the other amount because it simply hasnt ran enough to get to the other one....moving programs wont help......that deals with harddrive space and rom....ram is different lol
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