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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,
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I did what's recommended in the video, and it definitely made my system faster, but the hidden RAM usage remains. I have Windows 11 with 16GB of RAM, and when I boot my computer and immediately open task manager, it shows 40% (approx 6.5GB) in use, but all of the processes combined add up to roughly 1GB. So, same problem as you. Really wish I knew where it was going.
have you found a solution yet?
CAN YOU FIX IT PLZ
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.
Try Disable the MemoryDiagnostics task in Task Scheduler. It is set to run whenever the machine is idle for 10m, and to stop as soon as the machine is no longer idle. And the task is also hidden by the way.
This was my issue for the CPU fan constantly spinning up for no apparent reason while the PC is unattended. Sorry but I was not paying attention to the RAM usage, only the CPU usage. It would always calm itself down immediately after I would touch the mouse or keyboard.
