Windows 10: Memory usage being up at 80 -100% (Help)

Hi. A couple of days after Windows 10 was released i upgraded from previous Windows 8.1. I had a problem with windows 8/8.1 with my Disk usage always going up to 100%, this problem carried over to windows 10 luckily so did the easy fix for it. (For me disabling Background intelligence Transfer service and Superfecth seems to do the trick)

However lately I've gotten a new problem, with the memory usage being at 80% up to 100%.






It seems to be hidden processes so does anyone know how i can find the source of this?
I tried downloading Windows driver kit (The latest one i could find was for Win8/8.1) and poolmon was able to show me the hidden processes.



However when trying to identify the processes xperf doesn't seem to want to work with me



I'm not that good on this kind of stuff and all this was just me reading and trying out methods that i found when looking for help.
So does anyone know how i can fix this?

:)

 

Slow running Acer Aspire laptop

Why does my Acer laptop consistently run at 100% disk usage and more than 80% memory for ages after it's started up?

I swapped to using the Google Chrome web-browser because I was advised that the Firefox I was using was causing the problem. However, now I have swapped it seems exactly the same with google?! Help please?

 

When will Microsoft Fix the 100% disk usage error?

It most likely is your system files or corruption that is causing this and using up all your processor usage and/or overloading your drive. many things can cause this, including a bad HD.

In task manager, what usage of your processors and memory are being used while disk usage is stuck at 100%

 

try using this command, run cmd as administrator first
Code: cd drivers[/quote] hit enter, then
Code: findstr /s tagname *.*[/quote] hit enter again. wait for a second, it'll display what *.sys file(s) is causing the memory leak

 

hit enter, then
Code: findstr /s tagname *.*[/quote] hit enter again. wait for a second, it'll display what *.sys file(s) is causing the memory leak[/quote] How long should it take for it to respond?



It's been standing like this for 10minutes

 

nonononono it's not like that. replace "tagname" with the 'tag' of process in poolman.exe which eating a lot of resource. You see your Poolman.exe screenshot? look at the "tag" section, there are lots of "something" using a lot of your resources. for example, "Proc". So replace it with the tag name, it will be like this.
Code: findstr /s Proc *.*[/quote]

 

[/quote] ........... (face palming right now)

Ok now done right, it went for about a minute or two and showed a lot. Now it's finally finished but i don't really know what i'm looking for.

 

it seems that you forgot to enter this command
Code: cd drivers[/quote] ....before entering findstr command. it will change the search location on C:\System32\drivers to locate *.sys file(driver files), not .dll files as shown on your screenshot.

 

before entering findstr command. it will change the search location on C:\System32\drivers to locate *.sys file(driver files), not .dll files as shown on your screenshot.[/quote] Ok, now i found more then a few .sys files. What do i do with them and witch one(s) are the right ones?

 

open your explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers . find that/those file(s). Right click > properties. look at the detail tab. It will tell you what driver is this file. Update the driver, if available.

 

oh, and make sure the tag name you are looking for is the "non-paged" one. not the paged one. Look at the poolmon.exe screenshot.

 

I did i and i found the drivers so how do i update them? All iv'e been familiar with is hardware that you navigate in the drivers in the device manager. And should i do this for all the .sys files i see here or is there one specific i'm looking for?

And i'm not sure what you mean with the paged and none-paged one. Should i not do this to the processes that poolmon categorized as "Nonp"?

 

You can try find the driver one by one, by checking it on the device manager. If it is not listed on device manager, try googling it. You can check all of the *.sys files, it usually related. I have these memory leak problems before too.

What I mean is you have to find the "Nonp" one. From what I read in some articles you have to find the tags categorized as Nonpaged. not the Paged *Smile

 

Alright thanks so much! I'm gonna see if i'm able to fix it *Smile I'll maybe post an update later today or tomorrow.

 

You're welcome. *Biggrin it's been a pleasure to help. I have the same issue too.
Oh, and FYI: if you are sure that every drivers already been fixed, and those tags never came up again in poolmonitor- but your RAM is still high(or less higher than before), you may need to read M$'s newest explanation here, in "memory manager improvements".