High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc

Anonymous
2022-01-06T07:55:14+00:00

Just like the title goes, my laptop gets about 50~60 ram usage while idle, even though it has 16 gigs of ram. Tried checking with the task manager doesn't seem to spot anything going on. Also, I've tried fixing the registry, disabling startup applications, defragmenting drives, turning off Sysmain, as said on the Internet, but they all didn't change anything. Is there any way to fix this while not clean installing windows again?

My laptop is currently on Windows 11 build 22000,

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-11T07:16:56+00:00

    so i have had the same thing and i just fixed it do to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6laLoaSMVk8

    and to Carlo TJ i know its not your falt but thats not a valid reason and if i knew i wasnt going to get any help from Microsoft i would just rather use apple or Linux ive had nothing but problems with windows 11 and i hate it ive had to reinstall it on my pc 5 times in the last year because yall can fix any thing and the only reason i found this video is because i was looking the files them self and had to google something and saw this.

    ive had to reinstall windows 11, 5 times and reset 3 because when yall update it you f'd up my os files on my pc and now i cant go back to win 10 and ive had nothing but problems with win 11.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-07T14:24:17+00:00

    Hi Dan,

    Thanks for the suggestions. I turned-OFF Fast Startup (Hibernation was already OFF), and then I rebooted just for good measure, but I still have the same problem.

    I'm a little hesitant to disable Superfetch (SysMain). Can disabling that cause any problems? How much do you think Superfetch (SysMain) could be contributing to the problem I'm seeing?

    Thanks,

    DanD

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-28T06:44:36+00:00

    Facing same issue. My PC using more than 50% memory on idle state and i cant figure out where my memory leakage happening. I calculated all the ruuning apps memory usage but its not exceeding 3GB of memory. I got RAM of 16 GB. Kindly help with this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-28T03:33:15+00:00

    I'm running Windows 11 Pro 22H2 and Edge and I'm my Task Manager shows between 48% - 98% memory usage and MicrosoftSecurityApp.exe is always at the top of the list using from 4G to 13G! My laptop lags all day. I've used SFC, DISM Windows Memory Diagnostics etc. and they report that all is well. This is extremely frustrating. Is anyone else experiencing this problem specifically with MicrosoftSecurityApp.exe?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-07T17:39:38+00:00

    I also have the same issue, i have 16gb of ram, more than 4gb is used while my laptop os doing absolutely nothing, only background process run with collectively use about 500mb or so.... When ever i open any app, ram usage goes up to like 50%, even when the app is using like 500mb on task manager

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