yeh same here! on idle ram usage goes around 60 and never stays under 50 . even though I dont have any of much games or apps in my laptop and task manager also seems good .
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,
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2022-03-24T13:39:11+00:00 Hello, I have the same problem : my laptop has 16GB of RAM and with no application open else than Firefox, my RAM usage is 52%, and never seems to be less than 40%. Often when I work with 3-4 applications at the same time, I get a black screen and I am forced to reboot.
In the Task Manager, it seems like I have a gazillion small processes that add up and I don't really know which ones to remove. Even if I end them in the Task Manager, they come back after I've rebooted.
It's a painful problem and Microsoft should really fix it because it's impossible to work in those conditions.
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Anonymous
2022-03-24T13:44:11+00:00 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.
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Anonymous
2022-03-29T23:15:16+00:00 Yup, definitely a memory leak. Updating to the KB5011563 March cumulative update should fix it btw.
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Anonymous
2022-04-08T21:31:17+00:00 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 ?