Of late, I'm basically having problems with my Internet Explorer freezing and crashing, and sometimes it says my computer is running low on memory? Then, if I try playing a game, it basically takes ages to load, and it's all slow and stuttering and unplayable. Could this be some hardware problem, or most likely Windows? Everything was fine up until recently. Strange. Seeing as I have 24GB of RAM as well! Wondering if I'm not the only one. Only had pc a year, too.
Low Memory On Windows 10??
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If you are not using any memory intensive software when this happens have you tried doing a virus and antimalware scan, 24GB is a lot to be using unless you are doing some very memory intensive stuff.
Bench mark tests will generally stress the machine, so 90% on the CPU during a benchmark test would not be unreasonable.
Bench mark tests will generally stress the machine, so 90% on the CPU during a benchmark test would not be unreasonable.
SpyderTracks
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I would download malwarebytes on another PC (sounds like yours may be infected) and choose a custom scan making sure you select include rootkits
There's something running in the background swallowing your processes.
There's something running in the background swallowing your processes.
Yeah, it's strange! I've done numerous scans, and everything comes back fine. It's like just now, typing that last post, the typing was delayed and slow, maybe because I had the Benchmark thingy running. Unless it's a memory leak or something, maybe due to a Windows update etc. :/
Yeah. I've just tried again. I ran the benchtest, and alt and tabbed out, and loaded up Wordpad, just to try and type something random. And it was all slow! Surely it shouldn't be doing that? I've also noticed when I type on another website in the comments section, it can make my Wordpad flash and be slow as well! Wouldn't be a flashplayer or adobe problem? Pretty annoying!
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What are you using to scan?
Go to task manager and the startup tab, see if there's anything funny in there that shouldn't be.
Go to task manager and the startup tab, see if there's anything funny in there that shouldn't be.
AVG and Malwarebytes. If I alt and tab out a game I can type fine. It's just the benchmark. But the issue I had, was really with IE, when it would mess up, and then my pc would be down on memory. Could be a Windows 10 error. I did Google. Still odd though. Like now, it's working fine. It's only on certain websites. Right now, it's perfectly okay.
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Are you using ie or edge?
As rakk says, benchmark tools are designed to stress the system so will allocate as much resources as they can. The system will be slow while that's running.
As rakk says, benchmark tools are designed to stress the system so will allocate as much resources as they can. The system will be slow while that's running.
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It will be slow if you are running the benchmark and then alt tab... Your PC essentially puts the benchmark into the ram as a background process, even though it is still running so your machine will essentially be at 100% load and your trying to type something in wordpad as well...
When did this all start happening? Had you installed something significant before it started like some software or an extra stick of ram (24GB is an odd number to have, PCS usually supply 4,8,16 or 32GB.)
You could also try running SFC to check the filesystem. For details how look below, and use options three in the guide.
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2895-sfc-command-run-windows-10-a.html
ubuysa
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Two simple things to check first:
1. Open Resource Monitor and expand the Memory section. Click the tab labelled Working Set so that the biggest users of memory (RAM) are at the top. This will show you which processes are using the most RAM. It could simply be a memory leak in a process, if it is it will be at the top.
2. Open an elevated command prompt and enter the command "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes). This will run the system file scanner. At the end you will get a message indicating whether any errors were found and whether they were fixed or not.
1. Open Resource Monitor and expand the Memory section. Click the tab labelled Working Set so that the biggest users of memory (RAM) are at the top. This will show you which processes are using the most RAM. It could simply be a memory leak in a process, if it is it will be at the top.
2. Open an elevated command prompt and enter the command "sfc /scannow" (without the quotes). This will run the system file scanner. At the end you will get a message indicating whether any errors were found and whether they were fixed or not.
SpyderTracks
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Have you got any addons running? Stuff like play music causes system resource issues.
No add-ons really. Well, some minor ones I think. I'll double check. Computer runs fine. Just when using IE at times, it stops responding etc and sometimes comes up with the low memory warning. I then did the benchmark test which was majorly slow and a game too. The cpu was around 80 or 90 per cent. On reboot it was back to normal. Hardly used any resource percentage at all. Only happens when IE messes up.