High Memory Usage 80%+ - Nothing open

[1Fusion]

My memory/RAM usage is always above 90% sometimes it goes down to 50% then sky rockets again. I've went to task manager and chose "Show all processes from all users" and it just doesn't add up. I have 8 GB of memory, its a 1tb hard drive (though I don't think that might affect it.) My cpu is always around 20% - 30% (still not sure if this has anything to do with it but I'm providing information that'll help me solve this.) I've done a lot of searches on the interwebs to find a solution, found a few that worked for others, not me. I have windows 10, my pc is on 24/7. Its been like this for a year and nothing has gone wrong. Of course I turn it off once in a while and give it a few days to rest-up I guess. I had my pc for the past 3 years, working perfectly.

I've tried a ton of things, so chances are, if you found a popular topic with my problem, I've probably tried it. Though, I'll be glad to try anything at this point, even things I've already tried. Please suggest solutions and help me solve this problem, would mean a lot.

 

[Jake Dubeau]

What kind of 3rd party software do you have installed? Anything that you notice starts on boot?

 

[1Fusion]

What kind of 3rd party software do you have installed? Anything that you notice starts on boot?

http://prntscr.com/9l3gce

All the "enabled" I have, none of those looks suspicious, at least to me.

 

[Jake Dubeau]

Okay. I'm no longer using Windows 7 or 8, but I'm pretty sure there are two different kinds of Task Manager application lists. Applications and Processes, I believe. Make sure that you're looking at both sections for things.

 

[Jake Dubeau]

If all else fails, maybe try to use CCleaner. It looks and sound far more suspicious than it is.
http://www.piriform.com/promo/ccleaner-100314?gclid=CjwKEAiA5Ji0BRC5huTCyOTR3wISJACH4Bx4xfEGAPtcRjJEhms97LTfi7MMXj5kJBuAC4PokdvM0BoCEkLw_wcB

 

[viewtyjoe]

This is a case for Resource Monitor. Task Manager does a poor job of showing memory used by OS applications/services, while Resource Monitor will show resource usage from every program running. You're looking for the Working amount of memory in use.

 

[Jake Dubeau]

Really either task manager, or resource monitor would show what's using up all of your ram, I just prefer the familiarity of task manager.

 

[1Fusion]

Okay. I'm no longer using Windows 7 or 8, but I'm pretty sure there are two different kinds of Task Manager application lists. Applications and Processes, I believe. Make sure that you're looking at both sections for things.

I've already tried ccleaner yesterday, didn't help sadly. Just found something new, as soon as memory (randomly) drops to 47-50% for about 30 seconds before going back up to 80%+, the disc is at 99% which makes no sense at all.

http://i.imgur.com/wXBFg9a.png
http://i.imgur.com/qX6BPqk.png (2nd image, doesn't add up to 84% when I have 8GB memory)

 

[Jake Dubeau]

The high disc usage has actually kind of become normal with HDDs, but than RAM usage... There's nothing using up more further down the list? Also, Check the services tab

 

[1Fusion]

This is a case for Resource Monitor. Task Manager does a poor job of showing memory used by OS applications/services, while Resource Monitor will show resource usage from every program running. You're looking for the Working amount of memory in use.

Here's another screenshot with resource monitor.

http://i.imgur.com/zSDGZz8.png

Says 4987mb being used but there's no logic in that from the memory being used..

 

[Jake Dubeau]

Do you have multiple users on the PC? It seems that account management is taking up a lot.

 

[1Fusion]

The high disc usage has actually kind of become normal with HDDs, but than RAM usage... There's nothing using up more further down the list? Also, Check the services tab

No, there's nothing further down that's using up more than 5mb... 753mb is the highest.

 

[1Fusion]

Do you have multiple users on the PC? It seems that account management is taking up a lot.

It's just my user on the pc, no guest or anyone else.

 

[Jake Dubeau]

It's probably the RAM hungry chrome then. Maybe try temporarily uninstalling and seeing what kind of usage you get without it?

 

[1Fusion]

I would have to say that the blame of the ram usage ether goes to multiple users being logged in, or the famously ram hungry Chrome. Maybe try unninstalling chrome, temporarily, at least?

Alright, I'll get back to this post in a few minutes. Will go ahead and uninstall chrome.

 

[Jake Dubeau]

I would have to say that the blame of the ram usage ether goes to multiple users being logged in, or the famously ram hungry Chrome. Maybe try unninstalling chrome, temporarily, at least?

Alright, I'll get back to this post in a few minutes. Will go ahead and uninstall chrome.

Okay.

 

[1Fusion]

I would have to say that the blame of the ram usage ether goes to multiple users being logged in, or the famously ram hungry Chrome. Maybe try unninstalling chrome, temporarily, at least?

Alright, I'll get back to this post in a few minutes. Will go ahead and uninstall chrome.

Okay.

Uninstalling chrome didn't do anything http://i.imgur.com/HMsdg94.png

 

[Jake Dubeau]

Well I think I'm about out of ideas. Sorry man, good luck. Ill look around a bit but I don't think I'll find much. :/

 

[Jake Dubeau]

Maaaybe cortana is using up more than it says it is, Possibly disabling her could help. Really just guessing here.

 

[1Fusion]

Well I think I'm about out of ideas. Sorry man, good luck. Ill look around a bit but I don't think I'll find much. :/

Alright, thanks for trying to help :/.

 

[1Fusion]

Maaaybe cortana is using up more than it says it is, Possibly disabling her could help. Really just guessing here.

Yeah just disabled cortana since I don't use it, no luck still.

 

[1Fusion]

Maaaybe cortana is using up more than it says it is, Possibly disabling her could help. Really just guessing here.

Your guess may be partially correct but you're on the right track!. My memory is averaging 45-55% now and on rare occassions reach heights of 70% max. This little guess have made my PC much faster. Do you know any other essentials installed with windows 10 that I don't really need to use? Chrome is used most often than any other apps.

 

[1Fusion]

Maaaybe cortana is using up more than it says it is, Possibly disabling her could help. Really just guessing here.

It still says 5000mb being used in resource monitor but the percentage of memory being used dropped down to 50% averaging

EDIT: Just saw it hit 90% for 5 seconds, its much more often on the 50% mark after disabling cortana.

 

[1Fusion]

The high memory usage still remained a problem after multiple attempted tries of fixing it. I did my Google'ing to find every solution, none. Just to test if it was a hardware problem, I've reset my windows (Remove all apps + personal files) as if it I just got a new PC. Good news, it wasn't a hardware problem so if anyone can't find a solution that's your last option. Since it's not a hardware issue but software there should be a fix for this eventually but for now, that's the solution I found.

 

[shawn2550]

if i say the updaters are not much needed and itunes too plus use the windows 10 debloater it basiccaly removes all preinstalled stuff that is not nessary at all and unwanted registry files and others