Memory Leaks are Eating My PC Alive!

A reader sent me in a question about the amount of available memory on his Windows computer, surmising that the reason that there was such a disparity between the installed memory and the available memory was some sort of rampant memory leak. Odds are that's not the reason why his system is showing a different available memory figure than he expects, as you can read for yourself:

    Memory leaks are ruining a Windows PC?

As Sherlock Holmes would say, eliminate the impossible and whatever's left, however improbable, is the likely explanation.