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
    2023-05-24T06:13:07+00:00

    Good morning, I've just started a new job as Internal IT Support Technician. I have more than 20 years experience and have worked on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 & Windows 98, windows 2000 / NT4, Windows Millenium, Windows XP, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, Windows 10, windows 11, so i have travelled the journey with Microsoft and the resources required on a high End PC (Core i5 11th Gen) to run basic programs on windows 11 is beyond me, to say the least, i am in the process of troubleshooting a possible memory leak/resources problem on a brand new machine, and will post an update as soon as i am confident that 'at idle' this Windows 11 machine remains reliable, stable & ready to use

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-28T23:43:28+00:00

    Nope., a memory leak would grow the memory used.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-05T06:59:08+00:00

    I had 16gb ram, the laptop always using alot of ram even in idle so i upgraded to 32gb, same using (my 3rd party apps take 3gb ram) and im never below 60 (even with all the 3rd party apps closed) and mostly around 70 on ram usage, there is no specific app that takes alot, just a TON of windows stuff that takes sub 50mb ram that amounts to more than half the memory .

    if i start my developing env with docker (2 containers with a total of 3gb ram), visual studio and visual studio code im around 90-99 in ram on 32gb. cpu around 10-20%

    So it seems that the more ram we give the Windows 11 beast the more it eats for some reason?
    i also have 32gb virtual ram and 10gb is used so right now in idle im using 31gb ram of the 63gb total including the virtual ram

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-07T17:39:38+00:00

    I also have the same issue, i have 16gb of ram, more than 4gb is used while my laptop os doing absolutely nothing, only background process run with collectively use about 500mb or so.... When ever i open any app, ram usage goes up to like 50%, even when the app is using like 500mb on task manager

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-09T02:28:36+00:00

    I have 64GB of RAM and just starting windows uses 20GB and it doesn't add up to anything close in task manager

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