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100% of RAM is used when the Task Manager shows a cumulative usage of - what should be - less than 12% [duplicate]

I'm only using a limited amount of programs, yet my entire RAM is being used. These pictures should give enough data. I have also come across this post so here is the RAMMap file (Mega.co.nz, 102MB). ...
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How to find what's using up my RAM under Windows 7? [duplicate]

Recently my system has been rather sluggish. I have 4 GB of RAM, most of the time I don't have anything super heavy open (2 browsers with a significant amount of tabs, Java IDE, Skype etc.). When I ...
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How do I find what's eating up all of my system's memory? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I find what's eating up all of my system's memory? How does one diagnose/discover memory-related problems, if Task Manager appears to not be reporting correctly?...
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How do I precisely analyse the memory usage in Windows 7? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I find what’s eating up all of my system’s memory? I have a machine with 4 GB of RAM and no swap because hard drive is incredibly slow and enabling it make computer ...
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Why does my Windows install use over twice as much RAM as my open processes? (8+ GB used) [duplicate]

Something I've noticed on many completely different computers I've owned and across Windows 10 and 11 is that my RAM usage never seems to really add up to what's actually being used. It's never really ...
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PC Boots then writes giant datastore.edb file slowing the computer down

The system that I'm looking at is Windows 7, 32bit. When the system boots up it spends a ton of time reading and writing to the DataStore.edb file which is located in Windows\SoftwareDistribution\...
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Discrepancy between memory in use reported by the task manager and memory used by programs

My task manager As you can see it displays I have 2.27 GB in use, over half of my physical memory (4 GB): My list of processes Processes are ordered by memory As you can see the total amount of ...
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Tool for viewing used and free memory on windows system

I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to see all of the memory used by by Windows XP/2003 machine. I know that Process Explorer and others will show you what memory is being used by each process, ...
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Extreamly high memory usage in windows 10, and no clue as to why

Hello and thanks for your attention. The problem: For approximately one week my work computer's memory usage has spiked to very high level, to the point that it has almost became impossible for me ...
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Why is there the Installed Memory: 4.00 GB & Available Memory ONLY: 536 MB - 2.20 GB

This is a desktop computer, the problem is the difference between the installed memory versus the available memory. I search everywhere, for a fix to this problem. Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 4....
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Lenovo Ideacentre 3 always uses on average above 70% ram (even after an upgrade from 4 Go ram to 8 Go

I'm presently using a Lenovo Ideacentre 3 07ADA05, AMD 3020e with Radeon Graphics 1.20 GHz, under windows 10 and I upgraded the ram from 4 Go to 8 Go. But for unknown reasons its ...
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