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After a strange situation, where my keyboard started to lag, i mean pressing a button and after 2-3 seconds the action displayed on the screen, my ram started to run out. The keyboard problem fixed after 2 days after i played with its settings but the memory is still way high. I did some research i run microsoft's diagnostic memory tool but is found nothing. I have 4 gb of ram at the laptop and usually before the ''situation'' the ram usage was 33% with only some small programs open like μtorrent, skydrive, steam and origin.
Now with only 2 tabs at the google chrome open and nothing else the memory's 62% is used.
 
i installed windows 7 updates, clear the temporary files disable every program that starts with the pc boot and allmost nothing changed. i realy suspect chrome, with out chrom open the memory is on 47-55 percent still 12-20% above its normal usage.
 
i opened the task manager did the math and found that the memory usage displayed at the resource monitor was way up the sum of the task manger's processes:
 

ram.TIFF

 

 

what should i do?Is there any program that can find memory leaks?

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like TheUnbornGamer said click "show processes from all users" and post the screenshot, you can always run Malwarebytes or Combofix as many malware can cause high memory usage.

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did you run malwarebytes using a costum scan and selecting rootkits, also try combofix its pretty fast, it shouldn't take more than 10mins

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I run combofix, from what i understand it changed some staff.i also check the rootkits at the malwarebytes, and something strage happened. after is detect 5 threats mostly toolbars it stopped at a specific file and didn't proceed an further. Running something like memtest86+ will help?

 

I use only one chrome extension addblock, idon't ant to change my browser i think it's the best out there and it worked fine for over 4 years.A and i did try to reinstall it no big change.

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I run combofix, from what i understand it changed some staff.i also check the rootkits at the malwarebytes, and something strage happened. after is detect 5 threats mostly toolbars it stopped at a specific file and didn't proceed an further. Running something like memtest86+ will help?

 

I use only one chrome extension addblock, idon't ant to change my browser i think it's the best out there and it worked fine for over 4 years.A and i did try to reinstall it no big change.

I agree that Chrome is the best. And i have had problems where Malwarebytes had hit a specific file then stopped before. But when that happens you really just need to retry the search. If it keeps stopping at the same file, look at whatever it has detected and delete them yourself.

Also, i have no experience with memtest86+ or even just 86 so i don't know if it will help or not. You could give it a try and see what happens though.

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I don't think your issue is RAM but you could absolutely run memtest86+ off a usb to be sure (its like 10MB) but I would suggest chkdsk.exe /f /r and see where that takes you

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