Windows 10: Slow PC start up, huge memory usage.

My desktop PC is desperately slow starting up despite using an optimiser from time to time. I've just been reading about the multitude of scvhost.exe I can see on the system monitor, which I am assured is not causing the slow down. However, the monitor tells me that my physical memory is running at about 73% used, even when I have no programs running. It's frustrating seeing the hard-disk light full on when I'm not actually doing anything. Have you an advice about what could be causing such a memory demand? My system is an Intel i-5 with 8GB of RAM using Windows10.

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slowness in computer usage.

Hi John,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate if you could answer a few questions to narrow down to the issue.

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  What is the make and model of the computer?
  
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  What makes you think that system is running slow? Is it when you are trying to run application?
  
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  Did you install any third party security application?
  

From the screenshot that you have provided, I understood that it’s not the issue with the disk usage. The slowness might be due to the memory usage.

As an initial troubleshooting step, I suggest you to run maintenance task and check if it helps.

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  Press Windows key + X from the desktop.
  
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  Select Control panel and Select System and Security.
  
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  Click on Troubleshoot common computer problems under System and maintenance.
  
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  Now Run maintenance task under
  System and security.
  

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Runaway memory usage

On your suggestion I went to uninstall AVG. It offered to go into an on-demand mode (I can't remember the word it used to describe).
So I tried that instead of uninstalling. Upon reboot everything seemed unchanged. High CPU usage, memory growth, no good.

So I ran the uninstall. This moved along step by step ... until the last step (titled: replacing files) never completed. It left behind a bunch of its stuff in Program Files:
Code:

So I have a bunch of leftover crap ... which I'll probably just delete.

Anyway, after rebooting it seems that all is well. CPU usage is near zero. The fans are quiet. (Computer fans, not football fans!) *chuckle

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

Windows High Memory Usage Slowing Down PC

Recently my Windows PC has slowed down a lot, so much so that I can't run many games that I used to be able to. I tried to diagnose the issue and, although I'm not certain, I think it might be a problem with high memory usage. Right now the only major process I have running is Chrome and my computer is at 46% memory being used (with 11% of that being Chrome). However, even without chrome running I'm unable to run many games and just earlier today I was having trouble even navigating the windows settings menu because of the slow speeds. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions- any help is greatly appreciated!