Problems with PC sluggishness/RAM usage

[TheGreatWizardCalder]

Hey boys, so lately my PC has been very sluggish sometimes.
It can get so bad that the system becomes nearly unusable. Right before this it took 10 seconds to bring up the menu when I pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Here's a screenshot of my total RAM usage according to Rainmeter, compared to usage %s in Task manager.


I'm really not sure what's causing it or what to do.
Using W10.
CPU: 4770K @ 4 GHZ
GPU: 980ti
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1866 MHz

Any help would be greatly appreciated as if I can't figure out what this is being caused by I'm probably just going to wipe all my drives and do a fresh install (I'm really trying to avoid that, lots of data to backup/redownload and I'll undoubtedly forget some obscure file that ends up being important in a backup).

[Changis]

51 minutes ago, TheGreatWizardCalder said:

Hey boys, so lately my PC has been very sluggish sometimes.
It can get so bad that the system becomes nearly unusable. Right before this it took 10 seconds to bring up the menu when I pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Here's a screenshot of my total RAM usage according to Rainmeter, compared to usage %s in Task manager.


I'm really not sure what's causing it or what to do.
Using W10.
CPU: 4770K @ 4 GHZ
GPU: 980ti
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1866 MHz

Any help would be greatly appreciated as if I can't figure out what this is being caused by I'm probably just going to wipe all my drives and do a fresh install (I'm really trying to avoid that, lots of data to backup/redownload and I'll undoubtedly forget some obscure file that ends up being important in a backup).

have you tried a clean windows boot?

[kittyducky06]

yes you have a lot f programs taking ram just try a reset

[kittyducky06]

what is desktop windows manager

[TheGreatWizardCalder]

16 hours ago, Changis said:

have you tried a clean windows boot?

As in a new windows install? No, I'm hoping to avoid having to do that.

16 hours ago, kittyducky06 said:

yes you have a lot f programs taking ram just try a reset

Processes. At the time I had like 2 programs open lmao.

[kittyducky06]

one of those i taking 200mb of ram

google chrome doesnt even use that

[vaiwalker]

try a clean boot. probably just a program eating up resources. 

[TheGreatWizardCalder]

4 hours ago, kittyducky06 said:

one of those i taking 200mb of ram

google chrome doesnt even use that

You're right, it doesn't use 200mb. It uses 10 GB. :^^^^^^^^^)

3 hours ago, vaiwalker said:

try a clean boot. probably just a program eating up resources. 

As in restarting my PC?

[Changis]

1 hour ago, TheGreatWizardCalder said:

As in restarting / reinstalling my PC?

no, as in clean boot:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

 

[TheGreatWizardCalder]

On 12/14/2017 at 12:40 AM, Changis said:

no, as in clean boot:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

 

Thank you! Will try and report back.