Win7 Crazy RAM Usage

[nitro1337]

Hey there!

I am a coder, not much of a gamer. And sometimes I have 3 or 4 instances of Microsoft Visual Studio open at a time.
Which takes up alot of memory. My old Windows 7 install was taking up around 5.5 gb of RAM at idle. Which was caused (I guess) by the amout of junk programs that were on that install.
Because I got messages that I was running out of memory. Due to that I only have 8gb of ram. I decided to reinstall my OS.
Everything went smoothly and now 1 day later. My computer is fully operatable again. drivers installed etc.
Only Now I am having this problem:

 

My current usage:
- 1 Explorer window

- 1 Opera tab

- Skype
- Taskmanager

 

Background:

- CyberGhost

- puush

- CCleaner

- Nvidia GeForce Experience

- MSE

 

 

^

Thats the ram it uses. 
I really went WTF?!
Also if you look at the processes that are running, adding up all the memory usage they use up about 650 mb of ram.
 

I have one BitLocker drive of 3gb that contains all my projects. 
Did it load up that entire drive into the RAM?

 

I want to solve this, because I have 16 spare gigs of ram. But I'd like to use that for something else.

 

EDIT: I am running 3 2560x1600 displays in non surround. idk if that could eat memory.

[blu4]

Click on Processes tab and click on the Memory column, it will sort highest usage to lowest. Try that and report back! B)

[nitro1337]

Click on Processes tab and click on the Memory column, it will sort highest usage to lowest. Try that and report back! B)

 

Hey, I am not supid

Could think of that. Skype uses the most. about 128 mb.

[Lays]

Do you by any chance have a killer network NIC?

[nitro1337]

Do you by any chance have a killer network NIC?

You mean killer as in that its like a 100gb Intel one?

Or Killer as in the one that i.e. ASRock suppies with their Fatal1ty boards?

[Lays]

You mean killer as in that its like a 100gb Intel one?

Or Killer as in the one that i.e. ASRock suppies with their Fatal1ty boards?

 

 

Like the ASRock ones.

[nitro1337]

Like the ASRock ones.

Nope.

My board is an ASUS Sabertooth X58

[Fetzie]

Have you disabled the swap file?

[AlTech]

Skype uses a lot of RAM but not that much. You probably disabled page file.

 

EDIT: Or it's just Windows 7's Aero being a b***h

[nitro1337]

Have you disabled the swap file?

 

I don't remember alot about this

But here is a screenshot of its current setting

[noisebomb44]

When you are inside the task manager with all the programs sorted from most used RAM to lowest used RAM, try to enable "view all programs", or something like that

[nitro1337]

When you are inside the task manager with all the programs sorted from most used RAM to lowest used RAM, try to enable "view all programs", or something like that

Lol thank you.

I am guessing its windows update:

 

EDIT:

 

Rebooted, installed updates.

Ram usage is at 2.3 gb now.

Thanks for the help all.

[blu4]

Hey, I am not supid

Could think of that. Skype uses the most. about 128 mb.

Went around full circle man