Troubleshooting: Tried with multiple Virus scanners, same issue with the ones I tried. Scanned just the OS partition with no noticeable increase in memory usage. Scanned both data drives. Memory usage jumped about 1GB during scan of first drive, and another 1GB when on the second drive. Memory usage stayed high after the scan was complete.
Subsequent scans keeps the memory usage high. Greg Shultz takes a closer look at the changes on Task Manager's Performance tab and investigates the Physical Memory usage chart. Ever since I discovered how to use the Windows 9x's Resource Meter to keep track of system resources and prevent system crashes caused by depleting system resources when running more than one application at a time, I've made good use of Windows monitoring tools.
Over the years Microsoft has vastly improved the primitive Resource Meter and increasingly made it easier to see what is going on with the operating system's use of memory.
With Windows 7 , I've discovered some slight, but notable, changes in the way that memory usage is reported on the Performance tab of the Task Manager. I have also noticed a very nice chart in the new Resource Monitor that provides very detailed information on physical memory usage at a glance.
Of course, the Total entry shows the amount of RAM installed in the system. The Cached entry indicates the amount of physical memory used recently for system resources. This memory will remain in the cache in case the system resources are needed again, but it's available should other operations need it.
The new Available entry indicates the amount of physical memory that is currently not being used. The Free entry indicates the amount of memory being used in the cache that does not contain useful information. The Kernel Memory section now shows only the amount of Paged and Nonpaged memory. The Paged and Nonpaged entries break down the total amount of memory being used by the kernel and show you how much is coming from virtual memory and how much is coming from physical memory, respectively.
The Total entry, which was essentially useless here, has been removed. In the System section, you'll find the same measurements found in Vista; however, the Page File item has been renamed to Commit.
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