Windows 8 ram usage

Not to mention a system hogging 'Anti-malware' program. Desktop Window Manager is using more than usual as well. In reply to BossDweeb's post on July 5, Is anti-malware thing a dell process? I thought it was windows defender. And just installed a win 10 os In reply to Fletcher Bright's post on July 5, I don't see Defender, so maybe? If it's not Defender it could be part of the DELL software package that came with your machine, or you may have installed it inadvertently in the process of installing something else.

It is very often ticked by default, so you have to be watchful. One such trick is memory combining. Windows applications can reserve multiple chunks of system memory, not just what for they need now but what for they may need in the future.

The more apps that do this, the more memory used up. Memory combining searches system RAM for duplicate content and then frees up the duplicates to hold just a single copy. If an app needs that freed-up memory in the future, Windows provides what's called a "private copy. A healthy amount of system RAM is also taken up by Windows services.

Open Task Manager, click on the Services tab, and you'll see the sheer number of services chewing up precious memory. Next Recommended Reading. Net Core 6. Create A. Understanding Thread Starvation in.

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