It means your program is taking up more memory than necessary, potentially slowing it down or causing issues.
It means your program is taking up more memory than necessary, potentially slowing it down or causing issues.
Is your PC running smoothly? No infections or malicious software detected—seems like they’re hogging all the system resources.
This appears to be a potential malware threat. Likely due to fast startup being enabled by default. It saves certain information from RAM to the hard drive during shutdown and restores it on startup. Each restart clears all loaded data, giving you a clean boot. To prevent this, turn off fast startup by deselecting the checkmark.
Another cause could be a memory leak from an app/ driver/ service, basically a routine that is repeatedly called at a set period, so monitoring for inputs for example, but instead of clearing the memory used for the function when finished the routine just keeps adding more memory each time it is called. Over time this will use up all available memory. This is an overly simplified example. The only solutions to this issue would be an update for the 3rd party software, driver or to stop using the software as it is a programming error. You could track down the culprit by stopping all 3rd party software from starting with Windows, maybe disabling through the startup tab of Taskmanager or the Services tab, then re enable items one at a time for testing. Windows components have been know to have meory leaks at times, I believe the last one was Explorer in build 21h1, so making sure Windows is upto date could also help as could running SFC with the /scannow switch to check & fix Windows component errors if any exist.
I first verify whether you can identify the specific task consuming all RAM in the details area. Typically, software-related issues should appear there. It could still indicate a memory leak; applications like iCUE are known for such problems, though they usually get resolved eventually. Your operating system also stores many files in RAM (indicated by the "Cached" section under the memory tab), which wouldn’t show up in the processes list either. This isn’t your concern. Drivers can also reserve significant RAM, which won’t appear in either the details or processes tabs. For instance, your GPU might allocate up to 16 GB. A faulty driver could be the culprit. To eliminate the issue permanently rather than just masking symptoms, consider these actions: use RAMMap to monitor memory usage, disable all programs except essential ones, close everything that auto-starts, enter sleep mode repeatedly and restart, and if needed, reinstall Windows in safe mode without any drivers loaded—this often resolves most issues.
I have disabled Fast Startup now. I'll check again in a few days and let you know if the issue persists.