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
    2022-04-12T18:56:52+00:00

    Can we get any answer from official Microsoft support on this ?

    Should we do clean install ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-29T23:15:16+00:00

    Yup, definitely a memory leak. Updating to the KB5011563 March cumulative update should fix it btw.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-21T21:41:25+00:00

    You should be ashamed for your answer, where do you see a 3rd party program using so much memory?

    I have 16gb of ram and with 2gb allocated towards browsing and 300 towards Visual Studio Code it runs at 89-95% RAM.
    It shows how Microsoft has lost all care for consumer products and only cares for businesses where people get 1500 euro laptops to write excel all day.

    You know the funniest part about all this, If I start up a game I'm having 0 problems playing that game, and the high end games I'm playing require more than 4gb RAM.

    This shows windows is just grabbing extra ram to use for its own purposes. Probably spying and sending everything back to the office.

    If I wasn't in IT professionally I would've refused to work with this product. ( And I'm advising people to drop windows daily now )

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-04T00:00:12+00:00

    So... I did two things at the same time that may have fixed it for me. I'm on windows 11, 32G; I saw ~21G(~62%) being used right after boot, and it did not go down, even after restarting with making sure that all startup apps were disabled.

    Both are extremely condemning of windows.

    1: setting > privacy & security > general

    and disabled the following

    "Let websites show me locally relevant content by accessing my language list"
    "Let Windows improve Start and search results by tracking app launches"
    "Show me suggested content in the Settings app"

    2: checked for any update and applied it.

    Windows then started with ~5G.

    For number 1.

    Why would windows load more than 15G worth of apps preemptively? I mapped the total size of the files I have used in the last month, and their size doesn't even reach 15G.

    For number 2.

    Is Windows one purpose for taking up more ram to force users to update?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-06T04:00:25+00:00

    New XPS with 16gb, windows 11.

    I cannot find out why 97% memory and all is slow :(..

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