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Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit continually increases RAM usage?
Hello everyone, I was wondering if I could get some help.
I use Win7 Ultimate 64-bit, and it continually increases RAM usage. I don't my PC off very often due to me just being impatient and not wanting to wait for the reboot process, so I just leave it on. However, upon boot ram usage is at about 40% of 4GB. This is because I have a decent amount of things running in the background. After about a day and a half, RAM usage without anything but normal startup items running, increases to 70%. I have tried many things and even killing some processes still leaves the ram usage very high due to the blasted SVChost.exe process which I understand is necessary for the system to work, but angers me because it launches itself in many instances each of which uses obscene amounts of ram.
SPECS:
AMD Phenom II 1055t 3.38GHz x6
Corsair 2GB DDR2-800 RAM
ASUS M4A78 Plus Motherboard
Zotac Nvidia 9600GT Video Card
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Screenshots of running processes is attached. You will notice that sidebar.exe, Skype, Steam, and Firefox are all using obscene amounts of ram. When the programs are ran upon coldboot, they use much less ram, and their ram usage just increases continually throughout the time the pc is on. Same with SVChost.exe
TL;DR - How do I decrease ram usage so it doesn't continually increase upon the PC being on?
All help is greatly appreciated!