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Windows 8.1 64bit runs on Asus laptop with 8Gb of RAM and NVidia chip. McAffee antivirus was installed from the very begging. All drivers are up to date. Recently I start getting low on memory error.

According to the task manager, at that time, 98% RAM was consumed, McAffee consumed the most of RAM - 200 Mb and according to the task manager, 200 Mb was 25% out of the total memory!!!

The question: Who has consumed the rest 7.2 Gb of RAM ? I suspect that maybe some drivers, like in this case: Getting 'running low on memory errors' on Windows 7 64-bit with 8GB RAM.

But I do not like an idea to spend a week of reverting every single driver. Is there a way to find the cause of this problem??? Maybe some external tool could help?

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As Ramhound suggests, Process Explorer will give a decent picture of what is running and what is consuming your memory.

Bear in mind that you might have some dodgy software that is causing a memory leak (using up memory and not releasing it cleanly to be reused by other processes). For example, I recently had a memory leak while running a game... when changing maps on BF4, there was a 50-75% chance that a memory leak would start... over the next few minutes, my memory utilization would gradually ramp up to 92-98% and a reboot was required.

This article might help you identify if there is a memory leak, and what processes are responsible.

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