blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/08/13/introduction-...

Hello everyone, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Ray Ackley and I’m a Support Escalation Engineer in the Performance specialty. I’d like to talk a bit about a new tool that allows us to examine a vital performance resource: ph ...

superuser.com/questions/457301/why-does-windows-7-use-the-pa...

I am using Windows 7 64 bit with 8G ram. After some use, I feel Windows is getting sluggish. The drive is thrashing. When I look at the resource monitor and disk activity, I see a few instances of use of the page file (c:\pagefile.sys). I check the phy ...

www.zdnet.com/article/windows-7-memory-usage-whats-the-best-...

Windows memory management is rocket science. And don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Since Windows 7 was released last October I've read lots of articles about the best way to measure and manage the physical memory on your system. Much of it ...

superuser.com/questions/674649/windows-using-too-much-ram-ho...

I have 16GB of system RAM. On startup with no applications open except the task-manager Windows is using about 3gb of RAM. I looked in the processes tab, but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. How can I find out why my Windows is using so much RA ...

blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/12/19/where-has-all...

One of our highest call generators here in support surrounds low Available Memory shown in Windows Task Manager. Today we are going to take a brief look at this value and where this “Missing Memory” may be hiding.

superuser.com/questions/437918/how-do-i-find-whats-eating-up...

How does one diagnose/discover memory-related problems, if Task Manager appears to not be reporting correctly?

I must have a memory leak or something -- I'm at 75% usage of my 12 GB of memory, but Task Managers listings of processes' memory usa ...

serverfault.com/questions/12278/how-to-find-memory-usage-of-...

Task Manager shows the overall memory usage of svchost.exe. Is there a way to view the memory usage of individual services?

superuser.com/questions/437428/in-windows-7-is-there-a-way-t...

In windows 7, is there a way (by using common interface or a custom utility) to know how much memory a specific windows service is using ?

It seems most services are hosted by svchost.exe processes ( some svchosts.exe processes seems to host to ...

superuser.com/questions/583737/why-how-is-svchost-exe-using-...

What is going on here? I have almost nothing running (but High RAM usage)

By almost nothing, I mean Firefox, and some background network applications that are entirely passive and would never use this much memory.

ask-leo.com/how_do_i_find_out_whos_using_all_my_memory.html

When your system starts to slow down a frequent culprit are programs using excessive memory. It's fairly easy to find out which programs they are.

windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/optimize-windows-better-...

Learn how to make Windows run faster and smoother, with tips on improving your hardware and tweaking your software.

No matter how fast or shiny computers might be when they're new, they all seem to get slower over time. That state- ...

techietalkz.com/2010/03/08/solve-svchost-exe-high-cpu-usage-...

If you are using Windows 7 64-bit (Professional), and you are having the same problem as I have, you are in the right place. Occasionally I found that my Windows svchost.exe using high CPU usage, and it doesn’t seems to reduce/stop even after som ...

serverfault.com/questions/2786/finegrained-performance-repor...

This is something that's always bothered me, so I'll ask the Server Fault community.

I love Process Explorer for keeping track of more than just the high-level tasks you get in the Task Manager. But I constantly want to know which of those doze ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAzKiDXvb8

PC Repair: 100% CPU Usage for svchost exe by Britec

www.howtogeek.com/80082/svchost-viewer-shows-exactly-what-ea...

One of the most popular articles on this site over the last year has been our must-read feature explaining svchost.exe and why it’s running, and now there’s an even easier way to see what’s going on behind all of those svchost process ...

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-perf...

I am having problems with svchost.exe on my laptop as it uses, at times, half my RAM (my RAM is quite small at 1G) and completely bogs down my computer making it sluggishly slow and likely to freeze if any programs are attempted to be opened. The highe ...

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-file...

my pictures folder is missing.  Cannot seem to replace as if I create folder and try to rename, will not take My Pictures name.

www.eightforums.com/general-support/23810-i-deleted-my-pictu...

I accidentally deleted the entire My Pictures folder from my library. How do I get it back? I was trying to delete an album and it deleted the entire library of pictures. My photos are still in the Windows 8 library just not the My folders library. Any ...

www.vistax64.com/tutorials/90705-personal-user-shell-folders...

If you open your personal user folder in the Start menu or from C:\Users\(user name), and a user folder has a standard yellow folder icon instead of the special green folder icon, then this will sh ...

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-file...

I deleted the My Pictures Program in error - now how do I reinstate the My Pictures program?