Is there a Program I can use to help find memory leaks?

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TonyStark420

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Ever since upgrading to Windows 10, I've been getting some mad Ram Leaks, up to 99%. It usually happens when my PC is on for a good 5-6 hours or playing TF2 for a long period of time. Sometimes it actually happens on Startup. I don't think TF2 is the problem because it happens a lot aside from that. Is there a program I can use to identify the program that is causing my RAM to leak?
 
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So there is no way to fixing a memory leak? At all? If i find the source of the problems and it's a program, i guess i can uninstall it or re-install. I don't know much about fixing memory leaks. Is there truly no way?
 
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A memory leak is a coding error. It is a situation where the programmer allocated (requested memory from the OS) memory used it, and when done with it forgot to return it back to the OS. If you do that repeatedly, then you get a memory leak. Since it is a coding error, only the person (or company) with the source code can FIX it because the code has to be changed. There are tools like this -- http://winleak.sourceforge.net/ that can monitor a specific program (I have never used that particular tool).

Memory leak determination is really a software engineer job and not an end user thing.
 
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