Windows 7 After Reformatting to Win 7 Pro 32 bit loosed RAM Space

LUGUY

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Hi Forumers, LUGUY here. My computer has 4.00 of RAM, After I reformatted my Win7 Pro 64 bit to Win 7 32 bit I have only 2.75 GB Usable Memoty RAM in Computer- Properties, but in DRIVE C- Properties appear 432 GB of FREE space of 465 GB of Capacity , why this happen? or if this is normal? Thank you.
 
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Disk space and RAM are totally different and should not be confused.

After I reformatted my Win7 Pro 64 bit to Win 7 32 bit I have only 2.75 GB Usable Memoty RAM in Computer

As for your 4GB of RAM and now you only see 2.75 that is for 2 reasons. First, 32-bit operating systems are limited to 4GB but because of how 32-bit Windows maps hardware in memory, you typically only "see" around 3.2GB. Second, you most likely are only seeing 2.75GB because you most likely are using integrated graphics and not a separate graphics card. With integrated a big chunk of your system RAM is stolen... err... "shared" for graphics processing.

Bottom line is you probably should have stuck with 64-bit. Then all 4GB would have been usable - though...