Windows 10: Is My Windows 10 Update causing a memory leak?

So, a long while ago, maybe in feburary, I got a windows update that, for some strange reason, would cause a ton of my memory to be used. This had never ever happened before, only after the update did this occur. It got so bad that I ended up having to revert back to the previous update. After that, my computer worked just fine and my memory consumption was normal.


Today, after being bugged over and over, I finally caved and updated my computer again, in Hope's that the memory leak issue would be patched or something, but wow, wow, wow it's just the same and maybe even more annoying now. Nothing that I've tried has worked so far, and I have no earthly clue what about my computer could be causing all this memory consumption. I know it has something to do with the update because the update is the only thing I've ever installed that has caused memory issues.


What is going on??? I have stuff to do on tho computer and I cant be constantly checking the task manager every 5 minutes to see that my consumption has gone from 30% to 60%. Please help!

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Windows 10 memory leak after update [Wfpn / ntoskrnl.exe]

Notice: I have already read this answer and followed the steps in it, but I can't figure out what is causing the leak. What I'm looking for here is help in singling out the problem.

As you can see from the title of the question I've encountered a memory leak in Windows 10 after the latest update (Creator's Update I believe). The first thing I did was open the task manager, where I've noticed unpaged memory taking up about 13GB of RAM.

I went through the Poolmon/Pooltag/findstr process only to get garbage on the cmd




I then tried to use Xperf to find out what was happening, but I'm still unsure as to what I'm looking at. The root cause seems to be the kernel image, and I find that hard to believe. Here's the output of Xperf as seen in WPA:




I've had a similar problem in the past on Windows 10 that was caused by Killer Networking drivers, but this time around that doesn't seem to be the culpript.

If anyone is able to help me out it would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: I state in the first paragraph that this question is different from the one being suggested by the mod (I even link that very question). I had already taken all the steps in the answer to that question and still couldn't track down which driver was causing the issue, hence I was asking for users to help me find which one was the problematic one.

 

Possible Memory Leaks in Windows 10

A memory leak occurs when an application closes and fails to release all its RAM back to the operating system.

The first step in dealing with a memory leak is to determine which application is leaking memory.

The next step is to contact that application's technical support with complete details of the memory leak, since the developers will want to fix the problem ASAP.

 

Memory Leak.

Windows 10 is up to date.
All drivers are updated.

The app currently using the most memory is Firefox (but as I said above, it was Antimaleware service executable before)

I'm not sure of recent changes.

I honestly think its a bug that was accidentally put out, as a lot of people having memory leaks seem to be having different programs causing their own memory leak.