Windows 10: High RAM usage with no applications, I have 8 GB of RAM and tried almost everything

Hi, so I wanted to go back to Windows 10 but didn't know I could until after the 10 day period, and now I'm having problems with high RAM usage with literally nothing open, and I want to fix it so I can watch YouTube videos for school purposes without interruptions or having to refresh the page. When my friends tell me to hop of Minecraft I get around 50 FPS with minimum system resources and in-game settings. I really want to fix this issue, please help. Thank you. Here's a screenshot of my Task Manager. Also I had 5 Chrome tabs open for homework.

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High RAM usage


I tried running windows with 4GB and also 8 GB and it looks like the more RAM I have, the more memory it uses.
For 4 GB, it was running well under 2 GB.

 

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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High RAM usage since Upgrading to W10

High RAM usage is not a problem. Windows tries to use as much RAM as it can. If your applications don't need it, Windows will use it, then give it back when your applications need it.

You paid for all your RAM and shouldn't want to see any of it wasted.

On the other hand, *if* you are having a performance problem, this *could* be related.