massive page file usage run amok

I'm having a problem with computer occasionally using massive pagefile - over 2gb and taskinfo reports it while computer is so hard to control as everything runs is slow motion. I don't see anything in taskmanager using a lot of memory but I can hear my HD and see the light is constantly on. No scan is being performed and no defragment is either. I found this - maybe it relates because it's new. I have never seen it before. any thoughts on this. Thanks for your help and time.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4654/yahoo3dj.gif

 

well my computer just rebooted on it's own while I was trying to post the correct screenshot -

is this suspect?

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4636/page9ph.jpg

Edit:

never mind: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=611870&postcount=8


Daemon tools have been causing crashes. I will uninstall to see if problem remains.

 

problem remains

 

hehe, I always seem to solve my own problems since this board is always slow or reluctant to reply. http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4654/yahoo3dj.gif

 

In Task Manager are you just checking the default "Memory Usage"? You may also want to check out "Page Faults", "Page Faults Delta", "Virtual Memory Size", "I/O Reads", and/or "I/O Writes". Something has to be using it, and unless it's a rootkit or a bad driver as you alluded to... then it will show up somewhere. You might also want to play around with Performance Monitor ("perfmon"). If it's a kernel-mode driver or rootkit, you might be able to use the Driver Verifier ("verifier") to monitor pool & resource usage to see if you can track anything down.

BTW, what utility did you use for that screenshot? Rootkit Hook Analyzer?