Windows 7: Memory Usage - Windows 7 too high

Does this look excessive? I am using a Sony Vaio and there are 142 processes which seem too high. The Physical Memory is 78% or higher typically. Could anyone advise?

Hello there, k1bb5. Welcome to SevenForums

Yes, it's very high usage for a regular PC.

1) lxecmon.exe is using way too much memory. Do you have any Lexmark hardware?
2) 142 processes is WAY too much for regular use, right now i have 40 processes and using 1.34GBs of RAM
3) Does the laptop have its original Windows installation? (with all the bloatware)
4) Have you analyzed your PC for virus/malware?

Something is not right with that CPU/RAM usage

In task manager you have 8 instances of Internet explorer running for over 400 Mb, and as Punkster says your Printer software is also using way too much

Why 8 separate instances of IE? For each IE instance there also has to be an instance of svchosts running as well contributing yet again to more processes and memory used.

Practically everything is using way too much memory..

Why don't you download Malwarebytes' Anti Malware from here: Malwarebytes : Thank you!

Install it, update it, reboot your PC, boot into safe mode with networking (Pressing F8 after BIOS post) and perform a full scan... just to be sure.

There are a lot of processes that i don't even recognize and could (not 100% sure but could) be virus/malware.

Do that and report back.

HI Punkster/Zig thanks for the reply. Much appreciated!

Malware found a couple of Adware
xvidsetup(1).exe (Adware.Hotbar) -> No action taken.
xvidsetup.exe (Adware.Hotbar) -> No action taken.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{A078F691-9C07-4AF2-BF43-35E79EECF8B7} (Adware.Softomate) -> No action taken.

The Lexmark Wifi printer has normalised that did look odd. lxecmon.exe The printer was off anyway so that was v strange.

Aside from that its back to the old wmpnetwk.exe that was the initial cause of large mem usage. Its difficult to get rid of it and SKype.exe at start up doesn't help either. These I had gotten rid off from start up but they have since bounced back of their own accord today.

The laptop by the way is probably top heavy with Sony Media products as part of initial set up of windows installation. Yes so original bloatware + Sony additionals. which take all processes now to 127. however 15 are svchost.


ZigZag - you mentioned IE; I had three instances and probably 10 tabs, alot i know but that should be normal, thought that was the point of tabbed browsers?

Have attached new Resource Montitor and WTM. It's actually quite laughable the system can be so badly configured.. Thanks again.

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wmpnetwk.exe is using 2.5GBs?????

Go to your media player and disable its connection to the internet.. don't let it go to the internet..

Here's a quick solution for that:

1) go to start and type "services.msc" without the quotes, open it.
2) go to Media Player Network Sharing Service, right click it, stop it.
3) right click it again, go to properties.
4) on startup type, change it to manual. Apply and accept.
5) reboot your PC and check that the service is not running automatically.

Do that if you don't use WMP to share music/videos/stuff on the network (your house, another PC, etc.)

There were 8 "separate" instances of IE. Tabs just increase that instances ram usage. For each instance there is a separate communication service running (also increasing ram usage0

It may be what tabbed browser are for but then one cant complain about the number of processes or ram usage.

Perhaps your usage requires a faster processor and more ram.

His PC has 4GBs of RAM, i don't think that's the problem

Probably the processor. or the fact that there's a process that's eating 2.5GBs of RAM

Can you believe that?

Noted. I was just saying that his usage pattern may be exceeding his resources.

I have seen users who need 8 gigs just for their day to day work. There is no way 8 instances of IE plus his printer software is going to be easy on h is cpu, ram, power, or heat.

Of course, the average user needs 2 ~ 4GB of ram, even so... there are some users that need at least 8GB, Lexmark software has always given me problems... they're not fully compatible with windows 7 and they're memory hungry!

But yes, 8 instances of IE is not "normal", he's probably a multitasking guy.. and yes, multitasking = more ram, more CPU.

And if the OP hasn't filled his system specs, it's kinda hard not to speculate