Crazy RAM Usage.

Well recently my RAM has been raising and today it seemed to stop at about 46% or 3.67 GBs out of 8gb. It has caused me to lag on maple so it is now a problem. I havent been running much exept IE 9 or Firefox while playing. and after a restart and only startup programs running it is 46%. I have deleted prgrams and googled on cleaning up to solve it But nothing seems to work. Is it just my computer? I am running Win7 64-bit. Thanks to anyone that answers!

Hmmm, this is an interesting problem, as with 6 gigs of ram, and still only ~50% used, maple shouldnt lag since theres ~4 gigs still left for it to use.

One thing that will help in fixing this is for you to go to "start > type 'msconfig' " And tell us what programs are startup. Most likely, all the boxes will be checked, and alot of programs will be running when you boot up. Some of those dont really need to start, and some under the services dont need to run either.

Start --> search box --> "resource monitor" --> {Enter} --> Look around in there.

All are checked. i have HP mediasmart, Hardware Diagnostic tools localizer, HP adviser, Windows OS, Live messenger, Hpsysdrv application, HP Remote solution,hpwuschd Application,Catalyst control center,adobe reader and acrobat manager,Quicktime. And fiel should i remove ones with the highest commit or working set?

Yea, my guess is those HP programs are sucking down some RAM. Turn off the HP ones that you know the program to (HP mediasmart is the kind of obviousness to look for). That should lower the usage a bit.

not even all that HP bloatware should be causing you to have such huge RAM usage.

I'm guessing you have spyware or a trojan.

Download hijack this.

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

Run an analysis. copy and paste it in this thread.

If you have time, get Kaspersky, run a trial version, and run a scan.

http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/free-...anti-virus


i'll check back tomorrow