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Go to solution Solved by TopplesS,

Download CCleaner : http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard

Go to Tools > Startup and disable all the programs you don't need/want starting with the boot of your machine (double click on each item, makes it much easier). Reboot and see how you go from there.

 

Let us know how this goes!

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I'm wondering if anyone can help me,

My laptop has 4gb of RAM which recently have been using 47% of which when just on desktop with nothing else up, at the time of writing this its currently at 54% with only this one tab open, with 3-4 tabs open it tends to be around 78% usage, I'm not sure what the problem is? anything you guys can recommend me to rectify this or be the cause of the problem?

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Run msconfig and stop unneeded programs from booting at start up. Get malwarebytes, update it and do a complete scan. GL

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Scan your computer for virus and check your ongoing processes. for something wrong.

 

If the problem consists I have no idea :(

 

Good luck!

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Your system uses whatever ram is available. The more ram being used, the less the hard drive is being used instead. This is a good thing and is what stops things from slowing to a crawl. Browsers love ram and can often use a lot.

 

It does seem like you have background processes running though having 47% already just on the desktop.

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Download CCleaner : http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard

Go to Tools > Startup and disable all the programs you don't need/want starting with the boot of your machine (double click on each item, makes it much easier). Reboot and see how you go from there.

 

Let us know how this goes!

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