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
    2023-01-07T06:38:41+00:00

    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

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-10T02:47:46+00:00

    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.

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  3. VARADHARAJAN K 9,726 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-01-10T04:49:09+00:00

    I understand your points, we must find the root cause of the high memory usage applications or services.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-11T11:12:09+00:00

    My ram is full and disk also full sometimes but i tried to fix disk then ram is full.
    My fan also giving high sound and moving continuous when in charging mode.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-13T03:03:41+00:00

    Same issue on a new Surface Laptop.

    Very high heat output, fan noise and memory consumption - with no programs visible in task manager that I can attribute the issue to.

    Machine is essentially only being used for Slack, Teams and a Web Browser with less than 10-tabs. Only 1.5Gb of RAM usage can be accounted for of the nearly 10GB currently being used.

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