Windows 7 100% Memory Usage (without any process listed as using that much memory)
- by Paul Tarjan
When I plug my external USB 2TB hard drive into my windows 7 box, my RAM usage climbs up to all 4 Gigs (but in task manager it shows that all process are small) and the hard drive is churning like crazy. My CPU is only about 20% utilized
All I can think of is there is a Virus scanner or an indexer running like crazy. I've tried to kill all virus scanners (AVG and Windows Security Essentials) and it still keeps going.
My computer is completely unusable as everything is constantly swapping.
I've tried leaving it on for 2 days now and it still hasn't finished whatever it was doing.
Any ideas?