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My HP Pavilion G6 1160se Laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium x64 has a 4GB RAM and i5 Processor. The laptop is taking up all the RAM with no programs open. The Task Manager shows 100+ processes all the time. The RAM usage is 3.18-3.5 GB all the time. It doesn't go lower than this. In result the computer has become slow, sluggish and I can't open Chrome, Dw, Ps etc. The heat level Is going up due to this and the battery runs out in 1:30 hour max.
I have tried closing many processes and got down to 89 running but still didn't help.
I know about the superfetch thing but I haven't disabled it yet.
I have disabled unnecessary programs at startup.
I really need a solution to this please... help!
Are you sure your problem is caused by RAM instead of a busy CPU, or disk I/O? – Shane Wealti – 2013-07-01T14:04:18.410
1He mentioned that RAM usage is around 3.5/4GB, which is definitely way over what Windows 7 should be using even with a generous collection of programs on start up. I suspect a memory leak in some program, as the sluggishness is probably due to heavy paging of the hard drive. – peanut_butter – 2013-07-01T14:13:36.173
4A suggestion @Karan, go to task manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), and in the processes tab sort the list by memory, and list the items at the top. – peanut_butter – 2013-07-01T14:24:02.683