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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 understand that most applications run in the background, but it doesn't justify using all 16gb ram.
There are no 'unwanted' applications installed, I assume you mean Dell applications, which are not consuming a lot of memory.
Nothing in the image above justifies using 16gb of memory so there is definitely something that causes a memory leak or so after upgrading to windows 11.
On MY PC running windows 11, I have noticed that when the computer wakes up from sleep, memory load is >50% (about 16.4GB) on 32GB total RAM. Copy and paste stops working. (I.e. Copy from webpage and try to paste to notepad will not work.) Also, if you right click on desktop and try to select anything on the pop-up menu/box that appears, it can't be done with the mouse and have to use tab/up/down arrows/Enter keys to select. I have to reboot the system and then everything works ok until the PC is idle and goes to sleep and wakes up. Seems like an OS/Memory problem that needs to be resolved.
Regards,
Navi
Most of the applications are running background, even if you are not using those applications currently.
From the figure, I found many unwanted applications are installed as a bundled software.
So uninstall very rarely used applications..
New XPS with 16gb, windows 11.
I cannot find out why 97% memory and all is slow :(..
Are you saying that by default Windows 11 is using available RAM (even if it seems higher than it should be) because it is available and not currently being used by other programs or background processes... and then, it uses less for those same processes when other (priority) programs are running? It seems counter intuitive when I read that my 16GB of RAM has only 5GB of available RAM to believe that more will become available as needed... but I can understand it, IF that is indeed happening. However, I would also argue that Windows simply shouldnt need 5-10GB of RAM to maintain background processes in the first place - and this seems like an unintentional (to be fixed) problem with the OS or an intentional (wont be fixed) decision that will just push users to buy more RAM. Either way, I am not happy with seeing these results in my RAM use leaving 16GB feeling inadequate.
