Too much RAM used up in Windows 8.1

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I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 (updated to 8.1) 64 bits with 8 GB of RAM.
The problem is large RAM is always used up, around 4 GBs when I'm running nothing.
Task manager is showing no weird behavior, all the running tasks aren't using that much individually.
I could see that many people had this problem, but there have been different causes for it, so I thought the best thing I would do is ask for help.

I don't really know about RAM stuff but it seems that I have too high non-paged pool usage
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Yes, your memory usage does seem to be the non-paged pool. Thus something at the kernel level is requesting non-swappable memory. Thus either a buggy or poorly designed program or driver. I've seen truecrypt allocate a lot of kernel memory equivalent to as much data as you've read/written to a volume until it eats up all available memory.

Have you disabled NDU? That's been known to do that in windows 8.x

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/windows-8-338/awareness-thread-windows-8-memory-leak-ndu-sys-4309046.html
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Yes, your memory usage does seem to be the non-paged pool. Thus something at the kernel level is requesting non-swappable memory. Thus either a buggy or poorly designed program or driver. I've seen truecrypt allocate a lot of kernel memory equivalent to as much data as you've read/written to a volume until it eats up all available memory.

Have you disabled NDU? That's been known to do that in windows 8.x

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/windows-8-338/awareness-thread-windows-8-memory-leak-ndu-sys-4309046.html
 
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