Windows 7 Memory Leak

[support_bae]

Is there any way to see what is using all my memory?

Surely it can't be super-fetch as when I run a heavy program like Photoshop CS5 or VMWare, memory usage goes up to 3.9GB and system becomes really unresponsive.

Only solution is to restart PC but I don't want to be doing this.

 

[dl763]

I know its no help but I get a memory leak whenever I copy any large amount of data from one hard drive to another

 

[Aod]

that's definitely odd. sorry i can't be of more help but i can affirm that that looks like unusual behaviour to me.

 

[support_bae]

I know its no help but I get a memory leak whenever I copy any large amount of data from one hard drive to another

That is what I think may be my problem. I use a download manager (IDM), it is multithreaded download so when I download a large file (6GB+) it has to append all the parts together.

I tried downloading some MS memory leak hotfixes but still high memory usage

 

[support_bae]

It seems ESET may be causing this or something to do with Windows WFP.

Uninstalling ESET seems to be a fix or applying this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979223

Will try the hotfix first because there is no way I will uninstall eset.

 

[dl763]

Might give the hotfix a go and see if it cures my problem.

 

[theheyes]

If it's a bad kernel mode driver from ESET the problem should go away if you uninstall the firewall component, which would at least narrow it down for you.

 

[NathanE]

80% of computer problems are caused by anti-virus software. That's my experience over the past 15 years anyway.