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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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Same here : 32 Gb of RAM available and showing a 85% usage, although very little program usage.
Not having information on what is currently using the RAM does not give me much confidence in the Task Manager...
I have latest patches installed (including the KB5011563 March cumulative update)
I did install the March update, and still have the problem. I also have Docker Desktop and a couple other programs running at startup. I don't think it's a memory leak because the high memory usage is there right after a reboot.
I am experiencing same issue after Kumulative update.
I haven't started anything beside chrome, and i do have slack and docker on desktop running on startup.
Its i5 10th generation processor , 16GB of RAM and SSD.
Win 11 is working terribly. Is there a way to downgrade to windows 10 ?
Yup, definitely a memory leak. Updating to the KB5011563 March cumulative update should fix it btw.
If you don't see anything in particular then it may be a memory leak. If it drops after a reboot then you may have a memory leak in there somewhere. It can be in any software that uses memory.
If it doesn't drop after a reboot then you have stuff installed that's taking it up and just aren't seeing it.
Its possible that its Windows 11 with still another memory leak or something. Its as equally possible to be anything else.
For comparison, on Windows 10 I'm seeing 30% usage of 16GB with everything I use and have installed at this exact moment. That's with nearly 1GB taken by Firefox at the moment.
