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Something keeps randomly using up all my RAM.

Created by yoshimitz707 on March 15, 2012, 6:38 p.m.
  • It doesn't matter if I'm playing a game or just browsing the web and it seems to happen randomly. All of a sudden, my computer slows to a crawl and task manager says 95-95% of all my memory is being used up even though I don't see any processes using any unusual amounts of memory. It goes away if I restart the computer or wait like 30 minutes but it's really annoying to deal with. I ran memtest and that didn't give me errors so it's not a problem with my RAM. Anyone have any clue as to what could be causing this?

    Windows 7 and 4 GB RAM.

  • Did you click on "Show all processes from all users"? That might show some system processes that are the culprit(s).

  • Yeah, doesn't show anything out of the ordinary.

  • Have you used media center to stream anything lately? I ran into a bug in Win 7 where if I streamed to my xbox and then turned off the xbox Meida center would keep allocating memory until there was none left. Pain in the ass.


  • Nope, I don't use Media Center.