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
    2023-02-06T18:53:45+00:00

    2-2.5 ago, Windows 11 needed around 1.5GB after startup.

    around 2y ago it changed, and it was using around 3-4GB !

    few days ago i've got new notebook with fresh Windows 11, it takes 6-7GB after startup now !!! Is this because of that bloated new interface? how to disable these features?

    I've disabled apps prefetch but I don't see any improvement.

    Does Win11 uses so much memory only for caching purposes? and when apps need that memory they'll get it ? or that memory is reserved only for Windows and there is only 8-9GB left for other applications ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-27T10:30:21+00:00

    I running windows 11 22h2 in 8gb RAM but i updated to latest version and started to lagging, when i restart my laptop , not fixed (SO I JUST UPGRADED TO WINDOWS11 GHOST SPECTRE BUT SAME PROBLEM IN WINDOWS 11)

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  3. VARADHARAJAN K 9,726 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-03-27T10:42:25+00:00

    Check the tasks registered under task scheduler application

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-30T10:08:09+00:00

    Bruh , I Downgraded To Windows 7 cuz memory usage only 37%

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-30T11:08:49+00:00

    yeah, this is pretty SAD ....

    win 10 was using 1-1.5GB of RAM at startup....

    now Win11 takes like 4-5GB? and there is nothing new ...

    oh...i forgot, there is a bling bling lagging and freezing fancy GUI .... (on i7-12700h with 32GB RAM)

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