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 I have some basic apps open like chr2020-04-18_13h54_34.png.bbe898639253989b763f0eeae23b8c49.pngome with 3 tabs,discord,spotify,insta which most of them open when my is boots but the ram usage is 90% why is the ram usage so high like even you add all those things they are barely a gig and I have 8 ok 2 for windows so should be 3/8 which is like 40% instead its 90%. Whats wrong???

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that is normal

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Please take a screenshot from the "Details" tab.

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10 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

that is normal

How is that normal? I dont see 8 gb being consumed

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Go to the Registry

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management in the editor.

 

Change the "ClearPageFileAtShutDown" value to "1"

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4 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Please take a screenshot from the "Details" tab.

 

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3 minutes ago, Praesi said:

Go to the Registry

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management in the editor.

 

Change the "ClearPageFileAtShutDown" value to "1"

What will that do?

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Just now, ManosMax13 said:

What will that do?

Clears the pagefile after shutdown and should solve your memory problem.

 

Restart PC after you made the change.

 

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How much RAM do you have?

Your system is full of bloatware,You will have to clean it,

and Chrome is known to use tons of RAM,it uses 400mb of RAM in the screenshot.

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16 minutes ago, Vishera said:

How much RAM do you have?

Your system is full of bloatware,You will have to clean it,

and Chrome is known to use tons of RAM,it uses 400mb of RAM in the screenshot.

I have 8gb and also what bloatware?

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3 minutes ago, ManosMax13 said:

I have 8gb and also what bloatware?

Screenpresso,Instagram,Spotify,iCUE,Discord,the list is long but you took a partial screenshot of the process list.

Also,Do you have 2 anti-viruses?,because i see there Malwarebytes and Bitdefender.

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1 minute ago, Vishera said:

Screenpresso,Instagram,Spotify,iCUE,Discord,the list is long but you took a partial screenshot of the process list.

Also,Do you have 2 anti-viruses?,because i see there Malwarebytes and Bitdefender.

None of these are bloatware. I have them open because i use them for example when in loading screen browsing insta and listening to music. I also take screenshots very often and ICUE is for my k95 platinum to work. Discord is for talking to my friends. Also I have 1 firewall and 1 antivirus. 

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None of these are bloatware. I have them open because i use them for example when in loading screen browsing insta and listening to music. I also take screenshots very often and ICUE is for my k95 platinum to work. Discord is for talking to my friends. Also I have 1 firewall and 1 antivirus. 

With so many programs open in the background - no wonder your RAM usage is above 90% usage.

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Just now, Vishera said:

With so many programs open in the background - no wonder your RAM usage is above 90% usage.

yes but like if I add up the amounts in the screenshot. Its not even 1 gig

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Just now, ManosMax13 said:

yes but like if I add up the amounts in the screenshot. Its not even 1 gig

Because that's not the whole list,there is a scroll bar there that indicates the length of the list - And the screenshot shows only a fraction of it.

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1 minute ago, Vishera said:

Because that's not the whole list,there is a scroll bar there that indicates the length of the list - And the screenshot shows only a fraction of it.

I didnt inlude the others because they are like less than 10 like 0.3 or 0.4 and stuff

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Just now, ManosMax13 said:

I didnt inlude the others because they are like less than 10 like 0.3 or 0.4 and stuff

But they add-up,and the list is long.

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28 minutes ago, Vishera said:

But they add-up,and the list is long.

My list is even longer and it's barely scratching the 4.5GB border. 
There's certainly something wrong with his rig. 

Maybe check in taskmanager if there are absurd amounts of RAM reserved for anything like hardware, and check if your drivers/updates for windows are up2date. 
Or maybe some Autostart programs that load when you boot your PC. Maybe some unwanted program running in the background is messing around. 

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1 hour ago, Praesi said:

Clears the pagefile after shutdown and should solve your memory problem.

 

Restart PC after you made the change.

 

Thanks that helped a lot but what did it do exactly? What is the pagefile?

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1 hour ago, ManosMax13 said:

Thanks that helped a lot but what did it do exactly? What is the pagefile?

The Pagefile is reducing the workload of the physical memory.

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