exessive memory usage

I've got a widget that displays my CPU and Memory usage. Over the last couple of months I've seen memory usage occasionally jump up way beyond my 'idle' figure (which is around 21 - 24%) to as much as 90%. This occurs following boot-up. No CPU usage is apparent. I've looked at my Resource Monitor (and I have my 'Services' well under control) but nothing appears that is different to the normal usage. If I do a re-start it always goes back to regular usage. Basically, something is grabbing memory at start-up. I'm always conscious of my OS doing stuff in the background but this excess usage issue occurs at boot-up which is not the way I've seen it working in the past. I thought it was Malware Bytes 3 and gave them a hard time, but it wasn't them and I apologised. During my fracas with MB we ran AdwCleaner, JRT and Sophos virus removal but nothing showed up that made any difference. Anyone know what I should do; if, in fact, I should do anything?

Hi urbanspaceman1,

start-up is a 2 phase operation.
Immediate
Delayed

Have a look under services -sort by start up type
gee i wonder if Windows updates is there.

Roy

Hello Roy. Yes, Update is there under delayed start but it is set to notify only; however, that doesn't mean it isn't busy in the background, I just assumed it wasn't. What is it doing? If I disable it does it mean I won't get notifications?

Hi,

Notify DOES NOT stop it looking(running).
The better option PERFORMANCE wise is Download let me choose

have a look in your CBS log(C-Windows-logs-cbs (top text one).
You dont have to understand it Just look at the times its running AND how often while your online
Even set to dissabled DOES NOT stop it.
Turning OFF the driver update part of WU helps.

You might also want to look at your task manager LOCAL for 3rd party start-ups
and any peripheral update GUI settings ESPESCIALLY printers. even OEM bloatware.

Roy

Open Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Update\View update history. When was the last successful update? Do you have resent fails?
When you manually run Check for updates, does it find updates or run forever?

Megahertz07 said:

Open Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Update\View update history. When was the last successful update? Do you have resent fails?
When you manually run Check for updates, does it find updates or run forever?

I've had no problems with updates for some considerable time
last update was the monthly roll-up on the 12th of July; installed no problem.
This memory issue dates back before then.

Just to be perfectly clear: the Services screenshot doesn't bother showing all the manual entries that have not started;
I just included a few to indicate where active services stop.