Windows 10: Windows 10 1809 Memory Leak

Windows 10 v1809 Intel i5-8250U 8GB RAM

I updated to v1809 from v1803 back in December, and since then, I've noticed that my Memory used at idle is significantly more than it used to be, particularly after my computer has been running for awhile. Prior to the update, my system would idle at about 33% Memory usage, but afterward it tends to idle at 35% and steadily creeps up to 38% or so.

I've been trying to figure out the source of the change/problem, but I'm not exactly computer savvy.

I've tried seeing if my non-paged pool was too big (it's about 750-800mb), but I can't get a straight answer on what constitutes "problematically big". Even after using PoolMon, from what I can make sense of, the largest non-paged thing listed was IAStor, which I do not know where to update the driver for (if it has one). Also, the Empty Standby List thing in Rammap didn't work, either.

I've also tried to see if it was something to do with my Network Data Usage Monitor (I keep seeing it referred to as NDU), as I've seen that be listed as a culprit (though usually with Killer as the device, whereas I have Intel as best I can see) particularly since "Network" doesn't show in my Task Manager's Performance tab after my computer has been running for awhile. I ran the diagnostic for it in Windows, and it didn't see anything, though my Memory usage did drop somewhat, I do not know if it's related. Network still doesn't show in my Performance tab so I don't think it did anything, and I don't know what else to do to pursue this avenue.

Has anyone else had this issue? Is it the non-paged pool, NDU, or something else? And more importantly, how do I resolve it?

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