Currently having irregular, high RAM/Physical memory + CPU usage

[SavemyPC]

Imgur Here is a album just demonstrating 4 situations that this has occured, notably when this occurs, the only 'demanding' programs are skype, chrome and steam. Surely not enough to warrant this much usage.

My system specs are on my profile, most of these programs occured after installing a cooler, but don't seem to be a ram related problem, as I replaced them already..
I have already tried performance monitor, clearing up start up items, memory diagnostics.

Please help me ! Much appreciated.

 

[UsernameIssues]

I'm not sure that I'll be able to help you find the offending app(s), but maybe I can help you to post those images in a way that more members will see them. Some members are not comfortable visiting image hosting websites. The steps in this tutorial should let you post the images as attachments to your post: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

Step 10 thru 12 show how to place the image inline so that you can have text above and/or below the image. Otherwise, the images will appear at the end of the text in your posts.

You might want to post screenshots of Resource Monitor - the Memory tab and the CPU tab.


If you get bored, I would be interested in the results of a WDO scan.
What is Windows Defender Offline? - Windows Help
The scan will probably need to run overnight.

 

[Layback Bear]

Your
Processes are very high.
Your Paged and Non Paged are also very high.


Please show this from your computer.

 

[Boozad]

It may be worth binning Chrome and using IE or Firefox for a while, I'm noticing a lot of issues including BSODs lately that are solved by uninstalling Chrome. Disabling hardware acceleration does help in some instances but Chrome does seem to screw up some systems in crazy ways and I'm no nearer figuring out what the issue is. Some people run Chrome without issue I daresay but it may well be worth removing it from the equation even if just for testing purposes.

 

[GokAy]

I use Chrome only for a 2nd Gmail account. No issues with that, but that's about all I do with it.

 

[SavemyPC]

It may be worth binning Chrome and using IE or Firefox for a while, I'm noticing a lot of issues including BSODs lately that are solved by uninstalling Chrome. Disabling hardware acceleration does help in some instances but Chrome does seem to screw up some systems in crazy ways and I'm no nearer figuring out what the issue is. Some people run Chrome without issue I daresay but it may well be worth removing it from the equation even if just for testing purposes.

Your
Processes are very high.
Your Paged and Non Paged are also very high.


Please show this from your computer.

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The Msconfigs you asked for are attached. What do you mean by ''Paged and Non-paged" btw? I unistalled Chrome to see if it could be memory leaking somehow.

 

[UsernameIssues]

...What do you mean by ''Paged and Non-paged" btw?...

See if this blog helps:
Blogs - Mark's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Your numbers are small...

...and that is good.

As opposed to numbers like...

...which could mean a bad driver or two.

Second image is from this thread:
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/374922-i-have-memory-leak.html

 

[SavemyPC]

...What do you mean by ''Paged and Non-paged" btw?...

As opposed to numbers like...
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...which could mean a bad driver or two.

Alright, any ideas on where I should start? I haven't installed any recently

 

[UsernameIssues]

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Alright, any ideas on where I should start? I haven't installed any recently

I would start with the scan mentioned in post #2.
I like to use a USB flash drive.

 

[Layback Bear]

Just what I thought.
Look at my post #3 again. You will see that I have very few things running in the background and you have masses running.

Make sure you keep all active security programs checked. In my opinion the rest don't need checked.

To explain.
Every thing that is checked will start at boot and run in the background whether you use them or not. A big waste of resources.

Unchecked programs still lets you or your system use them when needed.
Example:

Lets say you have Office installed. If you have it checked in msconfig Office will run in the background even when you are not using it.
Unchecked it will only run when you want to use it. Just tick on the program or it's icon and presto it is running. When you close Office it will go back to doing nothing.

Please note that you will have to do your updates manually. Which is the way I do updates.

 

[SavemyPC]

I finished scanning with Windows Defender and didn't find anything. What should I do now?

 

[Layback Bear]

Read post #10 and uncheck things like I explained.
Reboot and see how things work.

Now if you don't want to uncheck the items just say so.

 

[UsernameIssues]

I finished scanning with Windows Defender and didn't find anything. What should I do now?

Just to be clear: you scanned with Windows Defender Offline. Correct? Not the Windows Defender that is built into Windows 7.

If the scan was with WDO. Thank you for taking the time to do that.

Please follow Layback Bear's advice.

 

[SavemyPC]

Read post #10 and uncheck things like I explained.
Reboot and see how things work.

Now if you don't want to uncheck the items just say so.

Yes I had already done this, sorry should have said . There were a couple of services that were important, as on boot, my computer was very slow for some reason, so I ticked some Asus services, which probably related to my motherboard. Atm I haven't had a CPU/RAM Spike, so not sure if unistalling chrome did it, or some of the services, hypothetically let's say it's not fixed, what should I try next?

 

[SavemyPC]

I finished scanning with Windows Defender and didn't find anything. What should I do now?

Just to be clear: you scanned with Windows Defender Offline. Correct? Not the Windows Defender that is built into Windows 7.

If the scan was with WDO. Thank you for taking the time to do that.

Please follow Layback Bear's advice.

Sorry for double posting, I suck at formatting, Yes I actually used both versions and came up empty. Does Windows Defender look for more than Malware? As I don't think it's a malware related problem.

 

[GokAy]

If it is ok now, then start enabling them few at a time, reboot and wait until you are certain it is ok. Go on like this until you find the culprit - then you can make an informed decision about it.

 

[SavemyPC]

If it is ok now, then start enabling them few at a time, reboot and wait until you are certain it is ok. Go on like this until you find the culprit - then you can make an informed decision about it.

Okay sure, but what if turns out that it was just chrome, should I just never use chrome again xD?

 

[GokAy]

You can try running CCleaner for files and registry and try installing again, may be that install went bad. If still no good, try again when they release a new version.

 

[UsernameIssues]

...Does Windows Defender look for more than Malware? As I don't think it's a malware related problem.

Windows Defender looks for malware. Windows Defender Offline is pretty much Microsoft Security Essentials... so, it looks for virus/trojan/root kit files. There are infections that will not show up when scanned while Windows is running. These infections hide from all of the lists that we look at within Windows (e.g. Task Manager, Resource Monitor, msconfig...). So, you see why it helps to know if some infection is driving your CPU usage high. That said, WDO might have missed something. There are infections that go undetected for years.

 

[SavemyPC]

UPDATE: While my RAM/CPU problem appears to be fixed, I'm still determining the culprit. Firefox appears to be running very slowly/laggy compared to my usual chrome experience.