Computers ram acting up

[toodabeans]

Something odd is occurring with my PC. Way too much of my ram is being used on no processes, and I can't figure out why I'm at 53-54 percent with no programs running other than teamspeak. I checked both task manager and resource manager, and it isn't making any sense why this is happening. Here's this https://gyazo.com/b05be09ab01442c1c8e6f850d1c3ad0c showing that I'm not having much running, especially not enough to be using over 8 of my 16 gb. Upon restarting, this isn't an issue though. If I leave it on overnight and go to get on it, the ram is at about 60%. I used to leave this PC on for nearly a week at a time.
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MSI Gaming z170A M5
HyperX 2 8gb ram
My computer is recognizing both sticks of ram too. I'm lost.

 

[boosted1g]

What happens when you close out of chrome?

 

[EchohcE]

You actually want it to be using a lot of your RAM, since the RAM it's not touching is worthless. Check to see how much RAM is actually 'free' as opposed to being indexed. RAM's supposed to be like a waiter that remembers what you usually order, so it has a tray of it on hand.

 

[Shaun o]

Your forgetting about background tasks.

Linked files also asked or needed to be run.

The dynamic link library .Dll for short does not just run one .dll
It involves using other files that are called dependencies.

You can see then running as processes from your screen shot you have taken.
Once set to run they remain active using up memory space Toodabeans.

To reduce the amount of system memory being used.

Click on start of windows, in the search box type : MSconfig then press enter.
Services are set to run for parts of windows requiring the files to be present and loaded into system memory.
Startup is where you can disable any programs set to auto run after windows os has loaded to the desktop display.

Un check programs set to auto run, that will sit in your system tray taking up system memory also.

This is often what happens after installing software if the condition to auto run the program is set in windows.

Once you un tick the programs so they do not auto run, click apply and restart your system.
If you got to system information you will see you have gained more free memory to run other programs.