When looking at the Resource Monitor where is it showing most of the memory usage?
High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc
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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,
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures
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Anonymous
2023-01-13T14:37:40+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-01-14T11:13:32+00:00 Hi,
I've got the same issue one a relatively fresh installed maschine.
As you can see in the screenshot: (Screenshots were taken directly after booting with Chrome open)
https://prnt.sc/inEp_62LBVfz https://prnt.sc/fxehkhYkJU3Y 32GB RAM
i9 13900KF
etc.
and I'm not able to watch a video and start a VM with 4GB RAM at the same time because my PC starts to stutter..
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Anonymous
2023-01-16T19:02:05+00:00 Just here to bump this, even with nothing running except Task Manager, I am getting 20GB+ ram usage with the highest usage being Task Manager which is using ~70mb
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Anonymous
2023-01-16T19:30:07+00:00 What all of you fail to understand is that unused RAM = wasted RAM...
Of course the OS will try to make use of what's available, it's just a good thing. The OS will automatically manage the memory for you. As long as applications are stable and everything runs smoothly, there is nothing to worry about.
Well actually I haven't thought about that.. I have recently built a new rig once again and I just swapped the drive from previous build with Win11 in it and just slammed in x1 stick 4gb ddr3 ram I happened to spare. Surprisingly it worked just fine even though the system specs weren't as preferable ngl. Still more than 50% idle memory going to Com Surrogate or whatever system process in hand, but still not impacting performance so your theory makes sense ig
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Anonymous
2023-01-17T10:19:58+00:00 I will tell you what the problem is. Windows 11 sucks and there are about 200-300 windows procceses running eating up all the resources. My laptop after installing windows 11 also became way slower then on windows 10. so wundows 11 is another downgrade in how it uses resources from windows 10.