Memory Leak or It's Just Time to ReBoot??

[ThunderBoyDavid]

After being on my system for several days (and nights)(don't sleep that much).... my system starts acting funny. Yes.. it does start to bog down a little.. but it does this one weird thing that i can't figure out.... Whenever i save a file or an internet shortcut to the Desktop... and then get out of all my Apps... there's Nothing on the Desktop.... Unless... i do a right click and click on Refresh... that's when everything will show up.... There use to be a command line string (but i think it was for XP) that could be typed in to clear out Memory and possibly the Cache... that was a very long time ago... i might have that wrong. Oh.. if i Reboot... the problem goes away... But... if i have one of my marathons.. where i'm awake for 3 days in a row... i burn several DVDs... download several movies and maybe a torrent or 2..... edit a video or 2... listen to some FLACs.... watch a video or 2..... type up a WORD 2016 Doc..... maybe edit an Excel sheet.... That's when the problem starts.

Help, Advice, Tell me that i'm crazy....
Thanks in Advance, Later, David, ThunderBoyDavid

 

[kanewolf]

You need to provide more specifics about the hardware and OS. How much physical RAM? Do you have a pagefile enabled? What does Windows task manager say your used memory percentage is?