How do i lower my RAM usage, i have 2GB ram and it's always at 98%

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  1. Posts : 12
    windows 7 ultimate x64
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    How do i lower my RAM usage, i have 2GB ram and it's always at 98%


    I am so frustrated I can't use anything on the net, It lags me out on everything what do i do? I have no idea what is causing it to use that much RAM, I checked my Task Manager and disabled everything that caused too much RAM usage , it goes down to 60% then jumps right back up to 98% slowly

    picture below shows what happens when i click show processes from all users, I dont' know how most of that garbage is still running, I have removed stuff from my computer but i don't know which ****ing program is filling up my Local Disk C also.

    the virus scanner i have is called "McaFee"

    and it doesn't even find any viruses which i know must be on my computer!
    help me please, I am suffering.
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  2. Posts : 12
    windows 7 ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #2

    This is what my task manager looks like, I sweaer this thread took me 15-17 minutes to create.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails How do i lower my RAM usage, i have 2GB ram and it's always at 98%-task-manager-1.png   How do i lower my RAM usage, i have 2GB ram and it's always at 98%-task-manager-2.png  
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  3. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #3

    First, 2GB RAM simply isn't adequate for running Win 7 properly. You should have at least 4GB. Go to advisor | United States (USD) and feed it the information it requests to see if you can upgrade the RAM in your machine.

    Second, you should get another anti-virus other than McAfee. Just about any AV other than MSE would be better. The free ones tend to have a lighter footprint than the paid ones.
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  4. Posts : 12
    windows 7 ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    I never had any problems with my 2GB ram before, this started recently and it's annoying me
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  5. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #5

    Start by completely filling out your system specs. Look at mine to get an idea of what complete means.
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  6. Posts : 12
    windows 7 ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    this is what i have so far
    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    Start by completely filling out your system specs. Look at mine to get an idea of what complete means.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails How do i lower my RAM usage, i have 2GB ram and it's always at 98%-system-summary.png  
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  7. Posts : 233
    Windows 7 Home 64-bit
       #7

    There is a SVCHost that is running showing a rather high 962,952 k. Never seen it that high before on any of my machines.
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  8. Posts : 12
    windows 7 ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    HelloItsMeAgain said:
    There is a SVCHost that is running showing a rather high 962,952 k. Never seen is that high before on my machines.

    when i disabled that SVCHost my ram went to 33% but all of a sudden everything started to lose its color like my windows taskbar turned into a windows classic taskbar and then when i pressed refresh and it came back on with a number of 1,000,000

    My Firefox also runs at 364,854 most of the time within the 200k-400k range.

    is Avant a good anti virus?
    My local disk c is also being eaten up, I deleted everything yesterday and used cccleaner and freed up at least 200mb then it started to get chewed again till it reached 0 then went back up to 15.5mb only....
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  9. Posts : 6,330
    Multi-Boot W7_Pro_x64 W8.1_Pro_x64 W10_Pro_x64 +Linux_VMs +Chromium_VM
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    How big is your HD/SSD ( C drive) ?
    Are you saying you only have 15.5 MB free space on the HD/SSD ( C drive) ?
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  10. Posts : 233
    Windows 7 Home 64-bit
       #10

    In task manager, right click that process then click Go to Service(s) to see what services that particular SVCHost is running.
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