Why is my Windows PC running out of memory?
by Jack Schofield from Technology | The Guardian on (#AYG8)
Judith's desktop computer runs slowly, and almost all its memory is being used even when she is not running any applications. What might be going wrong?
I have a four-year-old Windows desktop that frequently runs really slowly with Task Manager showing that 80-90% of the physical memory is being used even when I'm not running any applications. Svchost.exe seems to be the culprit, and sometimes RapportService.exe *32. I did a software spring clean as your column suggested but it didn't help.
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