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The forum thread discusses a laptop experiencing increasing memory usage and sluggish performance after about an hour of use, despite only a few Chrome tabs open. The original poster highlights high memory consumption and numerous 'svchost.exe' processes, seeking solutions. Respondents suggest removing Norton antivirus, checking Chrome updates, and cleaning malware to improve performance, with an overall consensus that the high RAM usage is typical in Windows 8+ but troubleshooting steps may help improve responsiveness.
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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 now, 92% physical memory is being used and I only have 3 tabs open on chrome and resource monitor. There seems to be quite a lot of 'svchost.exe' running. I just can't figure out why so much memory is being used. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks
An image from '90%+ usage 8GB ram problem!'. Windows Resource Monitor shows high memory usage with multiple Chrome.exe processes active.
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kemical

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Do you use apps like Ccleaner:
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(I don't recommend using the Registry cleaner as windows doesn't need one)
And Malwarebytes:
https://www.malwarebytes.org/
Removes any malware that may have crept in.
Also is Chrome the latest version? Check by clicking on the settings tab and then clicking about Chrome.

Windows will use quite a bit of RAM anyway as it puts app data in caches so that it's quickly accessed. As long as you regularly run apps like the above (once a week/month depending on laptop use) and your not getting error messages about low memory I wouldn't worry too much about it as it's how Win 8 and above was designed to work.
Obviously if your getting sluggish then run those apps above and see if it helps.
 
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That screenshot was taken after I had just used ccleaner and done a full scan on norton. I am also running the latest version of chrome. I would be happy to ignore the high percentage if it didn't keep slowing down the laptop. It's pretty new as well and cost like £1200 so it's a bit annoying to have to keep restarting it every hour.
 
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Get rid of Norton. (Use something else like Avast or AVG).
Disable some Chrome extensions that you don't need.

good luck!
 
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