High memory usage over time

[Gaz3ll3]

The issue I am facing is that using my computer overtime throughout the day leads to memory usage slowing increasing which eventually reaches max and im forced to restart and clear it out. I'm someone who is pretty technical on computers but even this is something that is stumping me as I've never seen this on any other system that I own. I can understand if windows is keeping a lot of things in cache for use but the rate at which this happens is way tooo fast. I dont have an example yet because I just restarted my system for the day but on a normal restart I will start out with rough;y 15-20% memory utilization when looking at task manager. 

 

Pretty much what happens is ill use my PC normally for me, chrome tabs, youtube, discord and a game open.There are days when I stream to twitch, I use OBS, and the memory usage spikes which makes sense but after ending the stream and close out all of my programs that the memory utilization will stay around 75-80% or higher which baffles me.

 

This makes me wonder if I have a memory leak somewhere with one of my applications or if its time to do a fresh install of windows 10.

[ProjectBox153]

I'd just keep it simple and do a fresh installation of Windows. It should solve most issues like this. 

[LehransMedallion]

Memory leak. You can either trace it down or reinstall windows. 

 

If you are to trace it down:

• Uninstall unused programs via Settings app
• Check the startup tab of taskmgr and remove any unrecognized processes
• Update software

Something has a leak and it is likely cause by a bad update.