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RAM has almost doubled upon boot
Hi all. Using W7 64-bit Ult. (not SP1). Have an Intel duo core i7 960 3.20 GHz, and an ASUS P6T MB with 20 (twenty) GB of Crucial RAM.
Everything seems to be fine, but I noticed the other day that upon boot, my TM is reporting almost double the RAM usage than it used to when I boot. It's been a while snce I last checked so I dont have a time frame, but it hasn't been, say, several months or anything. It used to be around 740 MB, now it's at 1.32 GB. And I don't understand how that is possible. One of the reasons it is (well, was) low is I have Aero turned off. No major changes have been made; haven't installed or updated anything, and I have made no hw changes. This is what I have done so far:
Checked mscongig for any apps launching with Win - nothing there
Also checked the reg (Current vers > run) - nothing there
Checked services.msc, and although there are a bunch of services set to auto (or course), I didn't see anything unusual
A couple of times in the past on this forum, I have been told to do a sfc/scannow from an elevated cmd prompt for other things. Tried that; nothing found
Don't see any services in the TM that look suspicious nor unusual
Did a Spybot scan and a Malwarebytes scan (updated first). Spybot found a cookie; that was it
The one thing I did notice is one of my two csrss.exe images is now at 17,000k, whereas it used to be at about 6,000k/ Not sure if that's of any concern. Still doesn't make up for the difference...I don't think.
Another thing I don't understand: if I add up all of the memory being used from the processes tab, I get approx 151,000k. Well, that's about .144 GB. So why the descrpency between that and what the performance tab says, which again is 1.32 GB?
Any ideas will be appreciated - thanks!