A user's Windows 10 PC repeatedly displays the balloon message "Your computer is low on memory." You have remoted into the system to diagnose the cause.
Which built-in Windows utility should you open first to identify which processes are consuming the most RAM in real time so you can decide what to end or remove?
Opening Task Manager is the quickest way to see real-time RAM usage on the Processes tab. You can sort by the Memory column to reveal the biggest consumers and, if necessary, end a task or investigate a memory leak.
Device Manager shows hardware devices and drivers but does not display RAM consumption per process.
Disk Management focuses on storage volumes and partitions.
Event Viewer records system logs and may show past warnings, but it does not provide the live memory view needed to triage this issue.
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