So I got a new computer since my old one is dead.  Someone bought it for me before I had time to think through my NEXT COURSE of action in regard the situation, it works great but now I'm having really bad memory leaks from something I installed because it wasn't doing this until I got a bunch of my old programs installed that I used on my 32bit computer.  A lot of the used up memory is not showing up in the task manager as being used by anything so I assumed it's a memory leak.  I've gotten up to 68% memory used out of 8GB of memory with just the basic Windows components and programs running and nothing else after I've been using Firefox and Vuze and Windows Live Messenger for a while.  I was thinking maybe it was my virtual instruments that I only have 32bit copies of that complain about there not being enough memory even when most of it is but it doesn't look like they're the culprit.  Is there a program out there that can help track down what is causing me to have memory leaks in Windows 7?  Also is there a program (hopefully the same one) that can free up this wasted memory?  My available memory keeps steadily going down rather quickly as Windows 7 is running and I can't figure out what program is causing it.

As I wrote this, the available memory went down 2% already.Are you experiencing any problems with the SYSTEM? If not, don't worry about how Windows manages memory.Not really, no problems so far; admittedly I'm new to Windows 7 so I guess I was making incorrect assumptions.  I'll report back if I start having problems when and if it gets up to around 100%.  I was just concerned because my virtual instruments use up a lot of memory to run and their usage seems to stack on top of the already used memory.use "show processes from all users".


you'll see that the memory is consumed by a svchost process. That service HOST hosts the superfetch service.Wow I didn't even see that button in the task manager.  I'm so blind sometimes.   I was watching my task manager and actually some RAIDXpert.exe was CONTINUALLY eating up RAM so I killed it and I'm going to see if my system runs stable without it for a week or so before I take further action.LEAVE IT ALONE!!!But I don't have a RAID array and it's using up nearly all my RAM after a day.  I can't accomplish what I intend to do with the computer if it's left alone to do that.  I mean I think nearly all my 8GB of memory being used up where I can't use it for some feature I don't even have is unreasonable.You already said you are not experiencing any issues with the computer. If that is correct, move on.At some point in time someone attempted to setup a RAID array on that system...

A clean wipe and install may be the way to go here...