Windows 10: memory leak, win 10 home

I am posting this saga in the hopes that it might help someone else, and in the hopes that some expert can tell me how to further help the situation. Although I have solved the problem enough to make the system usable, my solution is less than ideal.

My wife's computer runs Win10 Home, with the most recent updates installed (build 19041.450). We recently noticed a problem in it getting very unresponsive, requiring a shut down and restart. As I began to investigate, I found that memory usage was increasing from 2G to 8G (the max) at which time system ground to a halt. I found a number of suggestions on the web, e.g. update all drivers -- and followed them one at a time, but none solved the problem. Finally, I came across a suggestion to do a safe start and see what happened.

Doing that showed me that with none of the "nonessential" services started resulted in no memory leak. I began the quest of finding out which services might be the culprit and found two. The worst one was "Printer extension and Notifications". If it was started, memory was quickly eaten up. Another was "WLAN Autoconfig" which caused a slower leak, leading to lockup in less than 24 hours. My method was to activate services a bunch at a time and see what happened. If no memory leak, go on to the next bunch. If memory leak, cut the bunch in half and try again until I find the single service causing a problem.

Turns out that I believe I can do without the Printer service -- printer works without it.

BUT, I cannot do without the WLAN service, I need it to get WiFi.
So, in order to keep her computer usable, I put in a task in the task scheduler to have her computer do a restart every 12 hours at times when she is unlikely to be using it. This works, but it would be great if someone had a better idea.

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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 issue

The term "memory leak" means that an application fails to return all its RAM to the operating system when it exits. The leftover RAM is unusable to the operating system.

Step one is to identify the application that is leaking memory. Step two is to contact the application's developers and provide as much detailed data on the memory leak as you can. For example: which processes are still in RAM after the application exits
and how much RAM they occupy. Application developers never want their applications to leak memory and they will be grateful for the details you provide, particularly if they can replicate the leak on their own computers.

 

[Win10]Memory leak?

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate you for showing interest in Windows 10 and we are glad to assist you.

I suggest you to stop the game from the Task Manager and run the Windows Memory Diagnostic.

Follow the below steps to run Windows Memory Diagnostic:

• 
  Type memory diagnostic in the search bar and click on the
  Windows Memory Diagnostic.
  
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  Click on Restart now and check for the problems (Recommended).
  

If you need any further assistance with Windows then let us know. We would be glad to help you.

Thank you.