I need help with fixing my Memory Leak.

[AwesomeSauce387]

Hi,
My computer has been having a lot of memory problems lately. Right now I only have Chrome with about 10-12 tabs open, Skype and Steam and using 87% of my memory. The only lead I have right now is RunSW.exe using 15000 (16000 after finished typing this post) handles and Skype.exe using 11000. I saw a thread here saying that had something to do with it. Can someone please explain to me how to fix a memory leak and if handles have anything to do with it? Help is much appreciated, I have no idea what to do. Thanks in advance.
(I have 8Gb of ram.)
(I've looked in task manager and turned on show processes from all users, its not adding up to almost 8Gb.)

 

[digitaldoc]

Google Chrome is well known to have this memory leak issue. I would suggest to switch to Firefox as the first step.

I also use the freeware Clean Mem which frees up memory from software no longer running, and monitors the RAM directly.

 

[AwesomeSauce387]

Google Chrome is well known to have this memory leak issue. I would suggest to switch to Firefox as the first step.

I also use the freeware Clean Mem which frees up memory from software no longer running, and monitors the RAM directly.

I've switched to firefox now but this Clean Mem program looks VERY suspicious. The download website screams malware.

 

[digitaldoc]

I use Clean Mem on all my systems, and have not had any issues. I routinely scan the systems with Super Antispyware and Antimalwarebyes and nothing ever comes up from Clean Mem. Up to you if you wish to try it or not.

 

[XxskaterjerkxX]

Whats your anti-virus program you use ?

 

[digitaldoc]

I use Avast for antivirus. I like that it runs light, and updates frequently.

 

[XxskaterjerkxX]

don't know than i known avg was fuqing my ram usage allot

 

[digitaldoc]

Got away from AVG years ago on my end.

 

[XxskaterjerkxX]

Ye who knew they use to be very good idk what happen to them

 

[digitaldoc]

Yes, AVG has gone down through the years.