this question is a two-parter and i don't think the second part belongs here so please forgive me.

So i have 3GB ram and I"m BARELY scratching the surface as far as usage, I was curious if there was a way i could USE more ram without applications as far as a tweak or something. If not what are some memory intensive applications because I'm barely hitting 1GB.

By the way i have windows 7 and my ram is MHz 667 so its not the best.why do you want to use more ram when you don't need? As far as I understand, you only use as much memory as you need.well because i bought the EXTRA 2GB thinking i needed it, but i guess not. i just didn't want to waste money is all. The OS will manage memory usage just fine without any outside interference.with Vista and 7, unless you disable superfetch, you never have more then a few megabytes of "free" RAM. there is plenty available, because superfetch gives it back when needed. more RAM, at the very least, cna translate into better superfetch caching.OK i get What BC_Programmer is saying, plus i did some searching and came to  the conclusion that the task manager isn't as good as I thought it was(but its still handy). what in your personal opinion is the best resource manager?What do you mean the best resource manager? What is it you want to use it for?I think process viewer would be better wording, something like task manager but better. do you understand now?You can try PROCESS EXPLORER
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspxthanks for the link, process explorer seems perfect

OK I'm content with everything you could probably close this thread now.Glad to help. Threads remain open.