No need to panic. 64 bit edition Home (latest release) takes 14,2 GB. That's with swapfile on a 4 GB machine. Over time they grow just below 20 and can be maintained around 17. Anything more than that and something is seriously wrong.
You'll do great to avoid these "old wife's tales":
- using any form of 3rd party windows "optimizer" software
- using any form of driver "watchdog" and updater
- moving swapfile out of SSD
- moving your documents out of SSD
- disabling internal WIN drive maintenance to protect the SSD
- moving your local copy of cloud storage out of the SSD
- using hibernate on a desktop machine with SSD (Win 10)
- buying Samsung EVO
Unless you are using some sort of specialized SW, there will be no difference after obtaining more RAM than you already have.
What sort of monitor did you treat yourself with?
Last edited by FlightDetent; 27th Apr 2016 at 19:25.