Why is my laptop taking up so much ram???

[naxster]

As the title says, why does my laptop taking up so much ram and cpu??

The laptop is like 1 week old and its already slow as hell sometimes.
When i look at the task manager my "Disk 0" is sometimes at 100% thanks to mcafee on access scanner service...
But i've noticed another thing, in the task manager there is something called "hosting service: local system (17)" which sometimes takes up to 550MB memory and after like 10 min its down to 90MB..
Can anyone help me??

Here is a picture i took in the process explorer

 

[naxster]

Well i just googled "Asus Windows 8 F9" and some came up, but here is one of them
When i bought the laptop the menu of language and stuff came up, so there is not chance this is an used laptop, also the box was not opened.
But really.. how hard can it be to f****g restore the laptop without having any problems?? xD
i mean didnt microsoft think of this?? And i've noticed there is an "refresh your PC" and Reset your PC" but i have to insert an CD, or i think what i've read...

Once again this is not Microsoft. The F9 restore function is provided by Asus. Windows system restore is something different than the Factory Restore (hidden recovery partition or recovery cds) that is provided by Asus.

Anyways, even if you are able to do it, we're not even sure it will solve your problem. If that computer was really in this state on first boot, restoring it won't solve anything.

As I said bring back the laptop to the store and tell them all the problems you had with it and that you want to get reimbursed or change for another model.

Well i just factory restored my laptop, somehow... Anyway now its a fresh OS but the problem remains... My disk usage is even crazier! i mean look! Picture

Can i disable anything to make it work better??
It has been like this for about 30 min now...

 

[naxster]

Update: Now its working...
What i did was first to unstall Mcafee as soon as i booted the laptop after i factory restored my PC and installed AVAST. But didnt either work so i also unistalled AVAST and now its working perfectly... So now i dont have any Virus protection at all
What antivirus software do you recommend, which does not kill my latop like AVAST and Mcafee did??

 

[MC_K7]

I would go with Avira. It's usually very lightweight.

The only drawback with the free version is that you get a pop-up asking to buy the full version everytime it does an update. But it's not too bad because it updates itself only once or twice a day, so you don' get that too often. And I try to see the good side of it, when you get that pop-up it simply indicates your anti-virus is working and updating itself.

But aside from having to find an anti-virus solution, do you still have over 100 processes running? That's the biggest problem. If so, I would bring back the laptop to the store and get reimbursed.

 

[naxster]

I would go with Avira. It's usually very lightweight.

The only drawback with the free version is that you get a pop-up asking to buy the full version everytime it does an update. But it's not too bad because it updates itself only once or twice a day, so you don' get that too often. And I try to see the good side of it, when you get that pop-up it simply indicates your anti-virus is working and updating itself.

But aside from having to find an anti-virus solution, do you still have over 100 processes running? That's the biggest problem. If so, I would bring back the laptop to the store and get reimbursed.

no now the disk is 0% all the time, but it goes up sometimes but thats MAX to 7% and eveything is muuuuuch better now then it was before, and it all happened when i unistalled those antivirus protection...

 

[MC_K7]

no now the disk is 0% all the time, but it goes up sometimes but thats MAX to 7% and eveything is muuuuuch better now then it was before, and it all happened when i unistalled those antivirus protection...

When you say the disk is at 0%, you probably mean the CPU?

Did you install Avira now? Don't spend too much time without a security software.

What could happen is that when you install a new anti-virus it might want to do a full system scan at first, or might do it in the background without asking you and of course this could slow the system down.

 

[naxster]

no now the disk is 0% all the time, but it goes up sometimes but thats MAX to 7% and eveything is muuuuuch better now then it was before, and it all happened when i unistalled those antivirus protection...

When you say the disk is at 0%, you probably mean the CPU?

Did you install Avira now? Don't spend too much time without a security software.

What could happen is that when you install a new anti-virus it might want to do a full system scan at first, or might do it in the background without asking you and of course this could slow the system down.

No no i mean the disk. look here http/imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/457y.png/ thats the problem i had when i had antivirus and sometimes it was even on 100% disk usage...
Hmm no i still dont have any virus protection however i have Windows defender, you think thats enough????

 

[MC_K7]

No no i mean the disk. look here http/imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/457y.png/ thats the problem i had when i had antivirus and sometimes it was even on 100% disk usage...
Hmm no i still dont have any virus protection however i have Windows defender, you think thats enough????

No! Windows Defender is not an anti-virus, this is simply an anti-spyware (and a bad one).

Definitely install Avira.

As I said previously it can be normal that disk usage is at 100% if your anti-virus is making a scan. This could be normal after you install it the first time it might want to do a full system scan (scans the full content of the hard drive) so yes it will slow down the computer during that time. Full system scan can last a few hours sometimes. After that, the anti-virus shouldn't do that anymore, it will do random quick scan sometimes, but those last a few minutes instead.