Unusually High RAM Usage

[kamuii]

straight after booting up into Windows you can see that my RAM usage is close to 100%

 

[JKRsega]

Run malwarebytes just to make sure.

[kamuii]

7 minutes ago, JKRsega said:

Run malwarebytes just to make sure.

just did, pc is apparently virus free.

 

[JKRsega]

You do seem to have an absolute load of programs on start up.  Maybe declutter a bit and get rid of some?

[DreamCat04]

9 hours ago, kamuii said:

straight after booting up into Windows you can see that my RAM usage is close to 100%

 

What if you change the view to percentages on the memory? Task manager doesn't make the memory amount and the memory percentage match up. I always use memory percentages as I find it much more reliable. What do you have starting up? Can you show a screenshot of your "Startup" tab? Right now, edge is using 800Mb of RAM and that apparently is 5% of 32GB (spoiler alert: it's not, it's like a few percent at best, my head math sucks atm)

[xAcid9]

run MSCONFIG and use Diagnostic Startup, reboot and check if your RAM usage go down.