Windows 10 System Memory leak

Hi,

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Did you upgrade your computer from Windows updates or ISO?

I suggest you to open the task manager and click on performance. Under performance, you will see open resources monitor. Once you select that , it will let you know which are process or services accessing the ram usages.

You can also check this link below where Andre Da costa discussed about this issue:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/windows-10-disk-space/26266adf-d5bd-4589-9129-930684a959a3

Thanks

Hi there

I have exactly the same problem. The process System eats 1/2 of the physical memory. I install Win 10 from a ISO. does it matter at all how i install it?

Thanks in advance for any help. 

And BTW i have two Lenovo laptops and one desktop and the problem is similar. 700M-1G of memory is constantly taken by SYSTEM process. In details i see this file:

ntoskrnl.exe

that is causing the problem

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have been using Windows 10 few days and I notice that the 'system' task process took about 1 and half GB of my 8 GB of RAM. I never had this problem in Windows 8.1 before. I thought it might be the Windows Defender, or maintenance schedule running in the background. But nothing just this 'system' process alone. My computer getting slow sometimes. 

I install windows 10 through update. Any suggestion? I don't have time to fix this :(. Please provide an update quickly. 

Update:

Almost 2 GB

Update:

Now I have left about 300-400 MB because this 'system process'. My computer is slow. This is not the first time. I restarted my computer and still have this problem.

I have the same problem too, I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 using Windows update

Followed your step by editing the registry key and reboot. Still got around 1 GB at the system process. :\.

Updated:

2.6 GB now reserved by the System.

Hey Support Engineer, any update on this? I have to restart my computer many times per day???

Updated:

I solved it by changing the registry (different from @Alex DC). Open notepad, save the below text (after the start line and before the end line) as .reg extension and run the file:

--------------- START ----------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\TimeBroker]
"Start"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SysMain]
"DisplayName"="Superfetch"
"Start"=dword:00000003

---------- END -----------------------

Now my System process has less than 0.1 MB. Of course you need to reboot your computer first.

I have about the same problem. Only one thing is different, taskmanager tells me that about 75% of memory is used but that is way more then what I see in the list. Have a total of 8GB RAM. So some program is using RAM that is not noticed by task manager.

After a few hour the system uses more and more memory unitl 99% and then it freezes.

What should i do?

You can use this utility called Sysinternal Process Explorer from Microsoft Tech to check whether there are hidden processes that consumed your RAM:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

I think the 'System' process should not be more than 1 MB. Yours is 100 MB+ and that is unusual. I fixed the 'System' process memory leak by executing the registry that I posted previously. Now the 'System' process stays 0.1 MB and never increase. No more problem.

But why should I have to do all this just because of an update from Microsoft?  This is the first update that I have had so much trouble with.  Microsoft geeks really screwed up this update.