Windows 10 Explorer.exe using all RAM

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I've just turned my Windows 10 PC on for the first time in a week. When I log in, Explorer.exe steadily uses all the RAM until apps start getting killed or crash. It takes about 60 seconds for Explorer to allocated all 16GB of RAM (see image below), the drop off is where I restart the process - at which point it starts climbing again. If I kill the Explorer process (rather than restart) the PC operates without any issue (other than removing the taskbar etc!)Thanks for any thoughts on fixes! Things I've tried which found no issues/didn't fix the issue: Update to latest windows version run sfc

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