My computer looks like it's dying because of excess RAM usage

[Windidugo]

Hey. I'm a frequent reinstaller of Windows 7 (out of boredom ) and there are several problems here. First its impossible to download and install any new updates because I hit "Shut down" to let things update and it just hangs at some point. I think I also did a pretty dumb thing by uninstalling my AV software. Somehow my excess RAM usage is bogging my computer. I used my 2GB memory with no problem before, but since I reinstalled Windows it looks as if my computers going to die.

 

[LMiller7]

Post a screenshot of Task Manager - Performance tab.

 

[Windidugo]

I will tomorrow when I get back to my desktop.

 

[Windidugo]

Somehow, the physical RAM always has very high usage during at least the first 10 minutes of computer uptime. It's 15 minutes though, and RAM usage is still peaked.

 

[margrave]

2 GB of RAM in a Windows 7 computer? Not enough!

 

[Layback Bear]

Window 7/64 will run with 2 gigs of ram but poorly.

I'm just using Firefox and security programs and using 1.7 gigs of ram.
Now if I only had 2 gigs of ram installed my computer would be very slow.

 

[jamis]

I'd love to see what those 44 processes are using CPU wise and what the resource monitor shows. I'm guessing this thing is paging it's brains out.

 

[Layback Bear]

One can check all the processes, look at a bunch of charts and graphs. In my opinion it's a waste of time. More ram is needed. 4 gig or more will work quite well.
Not knowing what motherboard is being used I can't give any more suggestions.

44 is not a lot of processes.
Nonpaged at 35 is very good also.

With the information given things look good to me. It just need more ram.