@MrGoat i will give that a whirrle! Thank you!
Resource monitor wasn't any big help in the end despite everything it does.
@MrGoat this is the first time I have seen it leak to this level.. 32 gb of total ram nearly all consumed. Yeah next step if it happens again is to start running monitors and start getting a larger dataset to analyze. :) windowzing is fun, and my day job!
@Idrake malwarebytes could help - sounds like a virus but I know nothing lol
@Idrake https://microsoft-rammap.en.softonic.com/ maybe?