Let's start this off with saying that I know exactly how things work in computer and by memory leak I mean a piece of data stored in memory that is accidentally put there or put there for reason but accidentally never deleted, even if the program is closed, so it's wasting our memory basically.
My problem now
I just booted up my computer, running Windows 10 build 17134. I see 40% memory usage, normal, right? I have 16 GB of ram, and that means that 6.9 GB is in use. Even if you say it's normal, don't, because when I open up Task Manager and look at running processes (the Details tab) and at their memory usage, adding all the memory usage of all the processes together, I get 1.500 MB which is 1.5 GB. That isn't near to the 6.9 GB memory usage, it's showing. How is that? A 5.4 GB memory leak or something else?
Some say that it's old graphics card drivers causing memory leaks but I can't really upgrade my graphics card drivers because then it stops working (no video output). I have disabled most of my start up programs and third-party services, and I'm left with Avast Antivirus, Rainmeter and NVIDIA nView and hamachi's service.
[NEW] Problem reduced but not fixed
My computer updated now and when it booted up I saw 2 GB memory usage with the same start up programs and everything nothing has changed except I got update. It's a lot better now, compared to the 6.9 GB in the same conditions I have 2 GB or below. Even with my memory hungry browser (Vivaldi) with only tab being StackExchange, memory usage is 3.3 GB.
I'm still not quite sure why doesn't the memory usages add up in the Task Manager, we have discussed about via the comments and I know that the problem is in the Task Manager not in Windows (or memory leak of some kind) but I mean, Microsoft, is it that hard?
My only question remaining is why in the world doesn't the memory usages add up in the Task Manager ("Details" tab), or am I looking for the wrong information in there?
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