Hey everyone,
I know a few people that are having this exact same problem.
I am running Vista x64 Ultimate with 4gb of RAM.
When I put in a CD and install a program, my Mem usage sometimes goes to 100%, and stays at 100% even when it is finished installing. Everything runs insanely slow, and I usually end up holding the power button to restart (if I click on the start menu to restart, it takes 15-20s for the menu to come up).
I say it happens sometimes, because it doesn't always happen. It is hit or miss. It sometimes also happens when doing other tasks (see below).
However, when I open up task manager (and display all processes), I do not see any processes that are using an insane amount of memory. Everything looks normal.
Also, today I was backing up ~3.5gb of files from my hard drive to my external drive. My memory usage went to 100% and stayed there, just like I mentioned before (had to power off).
Just to get all of the starter questions out of the way:
-This is a fresh install of Vista x64 with SP1 (SP1 is up-to-date)
-I do not have any viruses
-I do not have any spyware
-I have ran memtest for 16 hours just to make sure it wasn't my RAM
-I have no messed with the pagefile
-UAC is enabled
Also, when I run a program like prime95, my memory usage goes to 100%, but when I hit "stop", the mem usage goes back to 30-40% like it should. So things are working okay.
I have had this system up since June. It is not a HUGE issue, because most of the time I am not installing anything, but when I do install something, it sometimes requires me to reboot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Again, it is not an extremely serious issue, but this is annoying as hell haha.
EDIT: I also understand the whole Vista pre-fetching thing (I study computer science) so I know the difference between pre-fetching and the bug I mentioned
I know a few people that are having this exact same problem.
I am running Vista x64 Ultimate with 4gb of RAM.
When I put in a CD and install a program, my Mem usage sometimes goes to 100%, and stays at 100% even when it is finished installing. Everything runs insanely slow, and I usually end up holding the power button to restart (if I click on the start menu to restart, it takes 15-20s for the menu to come up).
I say it happens sometimes, because it doesn't always happen. It is hit or miss. It sometimes also happens when doing other tasks (see below).
However, when I open up task manager (and display all processes), I do not see any processes that are using an insane amount of memory. Everything looks normal.
Also, today I was backing up ~3.5gb of files from my hard drive to my external drive. My memory usage went to 100% and stayed there, just like I mentioned before (had to power off).
Just to get all of the starter questions out of the way:
-This is a fresh install of Vista x64 with SP1 (SP1 is up-to-date)
-I do not have any viruses
-I do not have any spyware
-I have ran memtest for 16 hours just to make sure it wasn't my RAM
-I have no messed with the pagefile
-UAC is enabled
Also, when I run a program like prime95, my memory usage goes to 100%, but when I hit "stop", the mem usage goes back to 30-40% like it should. So things are working okay.
I have had this system up since June. It is not a HUGE issue, because most of the time I am not installing anything, but when I do install something, it sometimes requires me to reboot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Again, it is not an extremely serious issue, but this is annoying as hell haha.
EDIT: I also understand the whole Vista pre-fetching thing (I study computer science) so I know the difference between pre-fetching and the bug I mentioned
