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Recently my RAM usage goes to about 80 percent even if I kill all my (program) processes.

Should I restart to disable superfetch? (If that's the problem).

I am running Windows 7 RTM, I'm not doing a fresh install to my retail copy until I have to.

Any idea? Should I disable superfetch and restart?

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It's not using too much ram. It's using your ram effectivly. Unless you have performance issues, don't do anything.
Empty ram is wasted ram, you want your OS to use it in order to make your comp run faster.
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How much RAM do you have?

I've got 4GB and its only using 25%.
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It's not using too much ram. It's using your ram effectivly. Unless you have performance issues, don't do anything.
Empty ram is wasted ram, you want your OS to use it in order to make your comp run faster.

well, that's the thing, I do have performance issues. It goes to 99 percent and sounds like I'm about to blue screen (repeating sounds, etc).

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How much RAM do you have?

I've got 4GB and its only using 25%.


6GB. You're not really helping by saying that. Think about it, how does sharing your ram usage help solve my problem? My 860 sitting right beside me is using 12 percent right now, but that's not really solving my problem.
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6GB. You're not really helping by saying that. Think about it, how does sharing your ram usage help solve my problem?

As a comparison? And how does responding like that help you?

Anyway, do you have anything running in the background which may require a lot of RAM?
Perhaps something (such as drivers) is malfunctioning and thus using up loads of RAM?
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well, that's the thing, I do have performance issues. It goes to 99 percent and sounds like I'm about to blue screen (repeating sounds, etc).

6GB. You're not really helping by saying that. Think about it, how does sharing your ram usage help solve my problem? My 860 sitting right beside me is using 12 percent right now, but that's not really solving my problem.

You don't have to get all pissy about it, I was hoping other people would chip in with their RAM usage, that way we could establish what is 'normal'. But I would say 80% of 6GB is way outside of normal.

Could you post a printscreen of your process list? Do the processes on that list add up to the amount of memory used, or is something else filling it up?
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As a comparison? And how does responding like that help you?

Anyway, do you have anything running in the background which may require a lot of RAM?
Perhaps something (such as drivers) is malfunctioning and thus using up loads of RAM?

A comparison isn't going to solve my problem. That's the point.

And, nope, nothing I am running uses much RAM. I'm not sure if drivers are causing the problem, as I don't know how to check which is causing the problem.

edit: I don't think they add up, but I've killed most of them once, and it doesn't make much of a difference.
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Did you look through task manager/processes to see what's eating it all?
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Have you run a spyware/virus scan lately? Something is going on and it's NOT superfetch
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You've probably already looked here but just incase try this:
1. Hold Ctrl+Shift and press Escape.
2. Click the "Performance" tab.
3. Click the "Resource Monitor" button.
4. Click the "Memory" tab.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to get it to display the DLL libaries along with the processes, just can't think of how (I recall doing it - maybe I'm thinking of a third party app). Maybe someone else can explain that?
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Have you run a spyware/virus scan lately? Something is going on and it's NOT superfetch

I'll do that.

edit:
MBAM found 2 "Infected" objects in system32 so far, so I'll see if removing them and restarting solves my problem. I'll run ESET once i restart.

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You've probably already looked here but just incase try this:
1. Hold Ctrl+Shift and press Escape.
2. Click the "Performance" tab.
3. Click the "Resource Monitor" button.
4. Click the "Memory" tab.

I'm pretty sure there's a way to get it to display the DLL libaries along with the processes, just can't think of how (I recall doing it - maybe I'm thinking of a third party app). Maybe someone else can explain that?


we'll see. I just tried that, and it shows the same as task manager. (firefox being at the top with 300k)
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Try turning off Windows services that you don't need. Here's a good guide, I've got mine set like the 'tweaked' column.

http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm

I doubt this will fix the big problem, but it's worth a shot, and will increase your performance a little
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Can you post a list of all your processes for someone to double-check?

Start->cmd [enter]->tasklist /v > c:\\processes.txt [enter]

To view all the DLL libaries too, type "tasklist /m > c:\\processes_dll.txt".
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I restarted and I'm not using much right now. I'll do that when/if it goes up to 80 and above.
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after MBAM deleted that virus it found in system32 the problem looks like it's solved. rep to the guy who recommended that
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