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
    2024-01-22T16:25:26+00:00

    Just tried it, no dice. This is after shutting down and manually pressing the power button to turn back on, with 16GB of RAM:

    I'm starting to think the OS just requires 6GB of RAM to operate, which for some reason doesn't get shown in Task Manager.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-26T12:17:55+00:00

    I think Windows 10 also uses 1-2 GB RAM on idle Windows 11 uses 4-5 GB RAM on idle. I'd like to go back to Win 10

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-02T21:35:06+00:00

    Same issue. Brand new laptop with 16 GB of ram. Been banging my head on this. Fresh restart and I'm at 60% cpu. I have a Windows 10 box running with ~100 tabs across multiple windows and I'm running at 25% memory usage. WTH is Windows 11 doing behind the scenes? CPU and disk are non existent but memory is through the roof even on a fresh boot. I'm fine as long as I don't open anything.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-03T14:49:35+00:00

    After 10 years of having this problem on all my windows versions, thats it, im finally installing ubunto on my pc, im a programmer, and despite windows beeing more user friendly, its not "multitask friendly" damn, you can have 64 gbs of ram the services running on the background will just eat that up until you only have 4gb left, its a shame

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-22T10:54:39+00:00

    I am having the same issue.

    Please provide a solution for this.

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