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help me! something is eating my ram!
Ok so when I first installed windows 7, it ate up about 45% of my ram just being idle. (btw I installed it whenever it was first released, so its been installed for however long that is) Now I am having problems with my pc slowing down, and when I looked at task manager, the physical memory usage was 95%!! And I checked the processes tab and there wasnt even anything that was sucking up some huge amount of memory. So I ran virus scans from AVG, Nortin, and Avira. Nothing out of the ordinary, and my memory was still being sucked dry by something. I read that those programs that have a button to free up ram arent good for your computer, as it messes with the way memory works, and causes u problems in the long run? I didnt quite understand that statement, but I saw a few people had posted this in a forum about memory. Some one suggested RamMap instead and that it wouldnt do this. RamMap has an empty tab that lets me empty various caches (im guessing) and this does help, only temporarily. If I empty everything, the physical memory usage can go down to like 30% in task manager! but i dont believe this is too accurate because I dont notice any speed improvements, and shortly afterwards, the memory usage goes right back up to where it was. It has helped a little, though because it stays right around 75% (an improvement from 95%, but still way too much). So I dont have any viruses Im aware of, and no programs in the task manager say they are taking up a whole bunch of space, and I only have about 10 icons in the taskbar so why is my memory usage so high??
running windows 7 ultimate 64
amd athlon 64 x2 dual core 6000+ 3.0 ghz
2gb ddr2 ram @ 334.9 mhz