95%~ Memory usage on startup (8GB)

[Brood]

Seems a little weird... would be great if someone guided me in this issue. Thanks!

[Brood]

Oh yeah, forgot.

Windows 8.1
Skype is in auto run, aswell as steam

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Go to task manager and see what individual processes is taking up all that memory.

[Overl0rd]

Post a picture of your Task Manager with all the processes which are running.

[Brood]

[itsmyjobtoknow]

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Scroll through it and see anything that is taking up more then a usual amount of memory.

[NeatSquidYT]

Scroll through it and see anything that is taking up more then a usual amount of memory.

Look at how he ordered the column for memory.

[Brood]

Scroll through it and see anything that is taking up more then a usual amount of memory.

 

Everything beyond that is negligible, like 3-0.x mbs

[NeatSquidYT]

Everything beyond that is negligible, like 3-0.x mbs

Are you sure that both sticks of ram (if you have 2) are properly seated and are working?

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Look at how he ordered the column for memory.

 

Didn't catch that..thanks

 

Everything beyond that is negligible, like 3-0.x mbs

 

Have you run any anit-virus program to check if your system has a virus or a malware that is taking up at much memory?

[Brood]

Are you sure that both sticks of ram (if you have 2) are properly seated and are working?

[Brood]

Didn't catch that..thanks

 

 

Have you run any anit-virus program to check if your system has a virus or a malware that is taking up at much memory?

 

Windows defender shows no threats...

Maybe something is leaking memory? I'm not entirely sure about that and how to fix it though.

[Majestic]

Def. some memory leak. 

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff560135%28v=vs.85%29.aspx