Windows 10: High CPU and RAM usage - Urgent before Black Friday

Please note that this is quite urgent, as Black Friday is right around the corner, so I'd prefer to purchase replacement hardware at the discounted rate if need be. My computer is five years old now.For a couple of months now I have been having issues with high CPU and RAM usage 100% CPU and reaching 22GB of RAM by the browser alone when on non-CPU intensive tasks, such as browsing the web changed browsers a couple of times, now with Opera GX, and gaming non CPU intensive games, such as Overwatch 2, Detroit: Become Human, Far Cry 5 and Astroneer while keeping the browser in the backg

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RAM leaks and high CPU usage

Sorry to seem so negative, folks, but am I the only one who thinks it's disgraceful that the onus seems continually to be on users to fix the ridiculous RAM leaks and high CPU usage problems that were caused by the Fall 2017 Creators Update?

I received the Creators Update for Windows 10 Pro near the end of the year -- not surprisingly, since I'm currently living in eastern Europe. Installation went smoothly, but from the outset, I began experiencing significantly higher RAM and CPU usage. These
were issues that I'd not experienced before. I did a bit of research, and discovered that the errors don't really seem to depend on system hardware or idiosyncratic configurations. Instead, the problems appear to lie clearly with the update itself.

I'm lucky enough to have a very robust system: i7 Haswell-E 5820, factory overclocked and liquid-cooled; 32 GB of RAM; GTX-980; fast SSD as my program drive, etc. I also have a Rainmeter skin that shows me RAM and CPU usage in real time. On boot, I used
to see only about 2.25 GB of RAM being used; CPU would settle to 1-2%. Since the Creators Update, RAM usage on boot is routinely from a low of about 4.25 GB to as much as 7.5 GB, and CPU usage regularly shows prolonged inexplicable intervals of 20 - 35% usage,
and occasionally even more.

I've tried the various suggested measures to alleviate the problems, with minimal (and only temporary) success at best. I've had no success at all in trying to get information directly from Microsoft through Support. It's worth noting that all the various
suggestions to deal with these problems involving taking steps to cripple Windows functionality in order to reduce system overheads, thereby depriving users of some of the very benefits the OS is supposed to provide. Microsoft doesn't seem to be bothered by
that; in fact, it seem quite content to allow users to flounder around in the mess created by the update.

Does anyone have a definitive solution for the RAM leakage and CPU usage problems (short of turning to an alternative OS)? Is there any word as to whether Microsoft will address these problems soon?

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My cpu and ram usage is very high!

Sometimes my cpu and ram usage goes very high.

System(ntoskml.exe) and svhost(netvcs) use high ram.Once it reach 950 mb of my total 2gb ram.It has become difficult to use my pc (it is already old).Please Help me to prevent this high usage

 

High CPU Usage | explorer.exe cause my screen BLACK

I have been waiting for windows 10 to be release now its here.

I just installed Windows 10 today (11/22/2015) everything went great but I have problem with high CPU usage it cause by Windows Explorer (explorer.exe)

my screen will turn BLACK (as of right now it my screen just turn BLACK, I know cause my Taskbar is BLACK which is my Start menu, search etc. are gone, see the screenshot below).

I have to restart my PC by Holding the Power Down.

If I Highlight Windows Explorer and click Restart at the bottom of Task Manager it will cause the BLACK screen but will fix High CPU Usage.

It happen when I go to Setting to change my Photo viewer to Windows Photo Viewer etc.

Am I the only one having these problem? Anyway to fix these problem?

Hopefully these will be fixed soon.

I already Scan My PC with Malwarebytes 0 found.

Screenshot

• Task Manager

• Black Screen

My Specs:

• Acer TC-605 UB12
• i5-4460 @ 3.20 GHz
• GTX 750 SC 2GB
• 8GB Ram