Since I moved into the dorms this year, I a college student, I have been having issues with memory. Before I could leave my computer on for days weeks even without having to restart, but once I got it set up in my dorm its hard to keep it on for a day without used memory getting to 60% with nothing open.
I am running 16 Gb of DDR3 RAM and have been able to deal with the problem for the last few months even trying some suggestions on similar threads but nothing seemed to work. but recently I shut down my computer for the night. When I booted it up the next morning my computer was extremely sluggish, opening task manager I saw that memory usage was already at 40% and disk was constantly at 100%. After about an hour memory settled to about 30% but disk stayed above 90%.
I have never had problems with this hard drive before so I was scared. Looking on some site I saw a post explaining how to reset virtual memory so I followed the steps, and found that my computer was using about 17 Gb of hard drive as virtual memory, so i reset that(down to about 3Gb) and disk usage instantly dropped to 1%. I then restarted my computer and it seemed to take longer than usual to boot, I opened task manager and disk was at 100% normal i thought for running start up programs but stayed there for about 10 - 15 min much longer than it used to but better than before.
I am still having issues with disk being at 100% for 10-15 min then returning to 0% but certain things will send it skyrocketing to 100%, things such as launching chrome, opening window explorer, opening a new chrome tab, launching steam, loading any kind of game, and sometime it seems random.
memory issues are also still a problem it seems like programs are leaking memory but I can have yet to discover a culprit, either that or my RAM is going bad and can't remove memory.
I have tried a disk check virus scans, and clean restarts none seemed to have helped.
Any suggestion or tips are appreciated if you would like more info please ask.
I am running 16 Gb of DDR3 RAM and have been able to deal with the problem for the last few months even trying some suggestions on similar threads but nothing seemed to work. but recently I shut down my computer for the night. When I booted it up the next morning my computer was extremely sluggish, opening task manager I saw that memory usage was already at 40% and disk was constantly at 100%. After about an hour memory settled to about 30% but disk stayed above 90%.
I have never had problems with this hard drive before so I was scared. Looking on some site I saw a post explaining how to reset virtual memory so I followed the steps, and found that my computer was using about 17 Gb of hard drive as virtual memory, so i reset that(down to about 3Gb) and disk usage instantly dropped to 1%. I then restarted my computer and it seemed to take longer than usual to boot, I opened task manager and disk was at 100% normal i thought for running start up programs but stayed there for about 10 - 15 min much longer than it used to but better than before.
I am still having issues with disk being at 100% for 10-15 min then returning to 0% but certain things will send it skyrocketing to 100%, things such as launching chrome, opening window explorer, opening a new chrome tab, launching steam, loading any kind of game, and sometime it seems random.
memory issues are also still a problem it seems like programs are leaking memory but I can have yet to discover a culprit, either that or my RAM is going bad and can't remove memory.
I have tried a disk check virus scans, and clean restarts none seemed to have helped.
Any suggestion or tips are appreciated if you would like more info please ask.