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
    2022-05-11T13:14:22+00:00

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    2022-05-11T13:13:56+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T09:44:28+00:00

    hii i have same issue its taking 50% to 60% percent on idle ,how do i fix this

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-21T06:00:15+00:00

    Possibly so much ram is being ate because Microsoft forgot about rational RAM usage. Each service takes its so Windows 11 is eating too much. Would be better, if all services ate less. Currently I don't want to do something with Windows 11. Even I have programming skills I just want to feel entire normal customer experience XD

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T18:50:26+00:00

    I have 8gb ram installed of which approximately 4gb are being used by unknown services in Windows11.

    I could reduce the usage even further (up to 300mb less) but I still want to keep things like some animations and transparency effects (im a fancy mf) and have kept running maany optional default processes "just in case".

    My ram specs are 2 sticks Ramaxel branded 4gb DDR3 1600MHz each. Additionally 12288mb maximum allocated virtual memory on SSD disk.

    Again, and as mentioned by others, Windows10 did consume much less ram (like 2gb while idle and nothing open) in my case too and without any overcomplicated tweaks. Still not willing to switch back though haha

    The real mystery is where all the additional memory usage going 🤔

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