Windows 10: Why is my RAM Usage so high?

For some reason my ram usage has become very high for the past few days, to the point where I can't open more than 5 Chrome tabs. I have 8GB of RAM. But whenever I try to run 6 or 7 Chrome tabs my laptop blacks out for a few moments, or the Chrome tab reloads and shows an error of No Memory. I can't tell what takes up more than half of my RAM. At first when I use RAMMap to check my RAM usage it was MemCompression so I turned it off and I shut down my laptop for the night. The next day I come back to see that my memory was still almost completely occupied, but this time nothing showed up on the

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High Ram Usage

Hi there,

So this is the problem, From the time I bought this brand new IdeaPad Flex 5 (itlo5) 14" laptop, there has always been high ram usage when I look in task manager. The ram usage has always been around 80%. I have tried to clean install windows (which removes all bloatware from the manufacturer) but there is still high ram usage. My old HP laptop had the same amount of ram as this laptop (4GB) but the speed of the ram was slower. And the ram usage had been lower than this laptop!

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High RAM Usage in Win10

Thanks alot for your answers:
@PolarNettles: yes I have a Gigabyte Z170x Gaming-3 Mainboard with Killer E2200 ethernet controller. Are there known issues with this controller?
@Spectrum: I downloaded the program and got this screen


is this of some use for you?

@AddRAM: RAMMap did nothing as I emptied all the lists. At first boot RAM usage is normal, but when I work or play some time it kinda stacks up the RAM. Snip of the resource monitor

 

High ram usage when idle

Hello, I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

Try these fixes for Windows 10 high RAM usage when idle:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/...

https://thetechietrickle.com/windows-10-high-ra...

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/high-ra...



https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/cwza...



Let me know if you have any questions or I can help performing any of the above steps. Based on the results you post back I will have other steps to try if necessary.

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