When I leave my Windows 8 Pro machine running, over time the explorer.exe memory grows and grows until the machine tells me it has to close programs because there's no available memory at which point it basically kills and restarts everything.
I've watched Task Manager and the problem memory is always displayed as part of explorer.exe. For example, tonight I woke my PC up and explorer.exe was taking about 2 GBs of memory. Within 20 minutes it was 3.5 GBs. Right now it's around 3.5 GBs, and resource monitor shows Commit ~5.3GBs, Working Set ~5.2GBs, Shareable ~1.7 GBs and Private ~3.5GBs.
I'm not sure when this problem showed up, so I haven't been able to narrow down any specific change that caused this. Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions you have, and let me know what additional information would be helpful.
I've watched Task Manager and the problem memory is always displayed as part of explorer.exe. For example, tonight I woke my PC up and explorer.exe was taking about 2 GBs of memory. Within 20 minutes it was 3.5 GBs. Right now it's around 3.5 GBs, and resource monitor shows Commit ~5.3GBs, Working Set ~5.2GBs, Shareable ~1.7 GBs and Private ~3.5GBs.
I'm not sure when this problem showed up, so I haven't been able to narrow down any specific change that caused this. Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions you have, and let me know what additional information would be helpful.
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