memory usage

Hello everyone, I have a big problem of slowness with my laptop. I checked for viruses and malwares with different programs (nothing detected), then I reset my laptop to factory settings and my computer is still slow. As soon as I open it, more than 80% of the RAM is being used (with not a...

I have the standard 4gb of ram in my Win 7 pro media center 64 bit edition. Custom build. Crucial 64mb ssd updated with a 1.5 TB, and a 1 TB HDDs. My system is continuously using 93-97% ram memory according to Windows. I have tried turning off everything I can to lower the usage, stopping...

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Hi all, I'm new here. Thank you for reading my post. I have problem in task manager. I have toshiba satellite (i3 cpu and 6 gb ram) and win 8.1 system. When I turn on laptop nothing is run in system but my cpu is always on 70-80%, memory on 70% and disk is on 100% usage. The problem is while i...

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Hi, So my laptop will run fine for around an hour and then all of a sudden it seems really sluggish and slow and sometimes reaches the point where chrome is just unusable. I have to restart the laptop and it seems fine again. I have 8gb ram and have been monitoring usage in resource monitor and...

Hey, I have a fairly old gaming computer, and it has been pretty good so far aside from a few minor hiccups. Recently, it crashed while I was playing a game of Dota 2, and it was unable to turn back on. I thought my power supply died, so I left it for a bit until I could repair it. A couple of...

I am using windows 7 service pack 1 32-bit OS and it has many software’s such as NI LabView, TINA, Code composer studio, etc., during the normal usage the memory usage of the system is around 70% if I open a browser it reaches up to 95% and most of the system memory is getting occupied by the...

I am working on a computer that has com surrogate multiplying and eating up huge amounts of ram, but only when there are desktop icons. I remove all desktop icons (move everything to a different folder) and have no problem. I don't have the problem with a Diagnostic boot but do with no startup...

Hi, Im not so sure is win 8 right for my pc? If im looking for specs, then it shold be ok. I have atm win8 in my pc for a week now, after the install my pc worked good, but now its so slow, and in taskmanager i see that service host and some kind of update thing uses all my ram. Or what kind of...

Hi guys, New here and not great with computers so please bare with me! Have tried running a search across the problem but can't seem to find a fix for my issue. I'm having problems with "WinRS.exe" - It runs constantly in the background but probably every 5-10 minutes it will suddenly cripple...

I'm not a intel fan so I know little about the Intel side of things but my son has a Q9300 system he simply uses to watch youtube video's & so forth. Anyways he's been having a few problems. At system start up to desktop everything appears normal visually until you try & do things. The mouse...

Hi all, I have a Windows 2008 R2 server. All updates are completed. I am running a software which makes map tiling (creating square tile png images). When I start the process, RAM usage increases and my application crashes with a message of no available memory. I used RAMMAP utility to find...

Hello everyone. I'm new to the forums and not patient enough to browse around for a possible answer/fix to my issues so I apologize in advance if I'm in the wrong place. I have an HP 2000 Notebook that I recently did a reinstall of Windows 8 from my recovery drive due to what seemed like huge...

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Last Christmas my dad had the idea of custom making me a PC and ever since the first day I turned it on its had the BSOD. The main error that pops up is "Page Fault In NonPaged Area" but I also get "Memory Management" a fair amount too. We took the PC into a computer shop to get it checked out...

I was using google chrome and it made my pc slow. Then i shifted to Torch, even it is also using a lot of memory. I have currently Adblock, Block Alert Popups, Espn Cricinfo, FB photozoom extenions installed on this browser. Why does this happen? How to solve it?

I found out that Retro UI is a good app as a start menu. The reason is that it allows you to still use the start screen if you want to and adds a task bar at the bottom of your start screen. So, you can use the start screen as an improved desktop. I could be wrong so please correct me if I am...

When you defrag your computer you can hear the hard drive running as it changes files back and forth. At times I can hear the same sound (or similar) but have no clue what it can possibly be doing. My 1st instinct is to unplug my internet connection should someone be hacking in my PC and using...

Hi, I have Windows XP SP1. When I turn on my laptop (ACER), open Windows 7, after a few seconds the memory usage of explorer.exe increases significantly to reach 2Gb after a couple of minutes. Then, the system is very slow and I have to kill explorer.exe. I tried mostly everything: - clean...