Most probably the culprit will be using over 50% of the total RAM. You’ll have to figure out yourself which process is using unusual RAM. You need to look for a process that is using more RAM than usual. Here you will see all the active processes with their CPU and Memory usage details.Ĭlick on the top of the Memory tab (where usage percentage is written) to arrange the processes in descending order with highest memory usage process on the top. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open the Task Manager and move to the Processes tab. For most programs, the Task Manager should be able to find the culprit process. Windows Task Manager shows all the currently running processes along with their resource usage. However, this will not help in the long run as the bad program will probably leak memory again. Thus, any bad segments will also become available again. As RAM is volatile memory, it will reset as soon as you restart your PC. Tip: A quick fix to any memory leak issue is to restart the PC. Such problem can happen to any program, including Windows services, native apps, background processes, hardware drivers, and third-party apps. This problem leads to higher RAM usage even though no program is actually using the RAM. Thus, Windows won’t use that portion of RAM even though it is free to use. This happens when a program fails to inform Windows RAM manager that they have stopped using a RAM segment and it is free to use again.

What’s Memory Leakįundamentally, memory leak is a portion of the RAM that a program marks as ' in use' but isn’t actually using it. So in the write-up below I will discuss all possible causes of memory leak and how to solve them.

I checked some online forums and realized that a lot of people are facing memory leak issues in Windows 10.Īfter trying multiple solutions I finally managed to bring down my RAM usage to a sane level. After updating to Windows 10 Creators Update, I noticed my RAM usage surging to up to 80% after hardly 30 minutes of use.

Windows 10 photos memory usage