Task manager shows 98% physical memory used in windows 8.1 Pro - please help!

Mihai Grunzu

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Hello,

I was playing Dragon Age Inquisition last night and at some point I noticed game was very slow, went to task manager and saw that game was using 98% of memory. Closed it and even after restart of PC I had the same problem.

Now I just came back home from work and noticed the computer is running at same 98% memory usage.

here is link to RAMMAP's save: http://www.4shared.com/file/FnsTaaGTce/CARMAN.html

specs:
ga-z97x-sli + i5-4690k
8gb ddr3 micron dual-channel 1600Mhz
ssd + 2tb hdd

Never had this problem before, only MB+Cpu are brand new 5 days since purchase.
I need to know if is easier and faster to just reinstall windows (7-10 minutes) or that won't solve the problem.

Please advise - Thanks!
 

Mihai Grunzu

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AVG internet security is always active, but i will check with spybot and reply later.

After I posted here had to manually restart windows and after logon memory usage is around 16-22% with only Chrome being used.
 

Mihai Grunzu

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I am at work now and unable to make the suggested changes but the matter seems to be solved now.

These past two days memory usage is between 20-25% when running applications and never went up to 90+ again.