High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc

I have the same issue, always 45 - 55% memory usage, I have 64GB Ram...

Obviously Carlo is a paid actor

Here is a screenshort,sorted with highest memory utility. I don't have install any unnecessary apps. Can toy give me solution of this?

I have tried to upload screenshots as evidence for this on both Firefox and Windows Edge, and they keep failing to upload. Until I can figure out that problem too, you'll just have to take my word for things and I'll describe the issue to my best knowledge. Just do your best to imagine pictures, I guess
I've had this same issue for a long time now and have been looking into solutions with no luck for a couple weeks, so I figured I'd throw my hat into the ring here.

I am using an ASUS Vivobook running Windows 11 with 12 GB of RAM. I am currently on version 23H2.

Even with all non-essential and third party software closed (except my antivirus, which I cannot turn off) I use roughly 50% of my RAM. (see below screenshots)

This alone is very concerning, but on top of that I have noticed that when switching between viewing the usage as percents and values the totals don't add up to be nearly as much as I have the capacity for (as shown in screenshots below). The percents don't always add up to 100% so I assumed it just meant the percent of my total RAM, but that doesn't make sense either as you can see that Firefox is using 11.5% RAM and 556.2 MB, which doesn't quite add up. It would imply I'm either only using 4835.6 MB of space, or that that is my total available. Weirdly enough, if you look above at my first screenshots, Windows Explorer is using 107.6 MB or 9.2%, which would actually be roughly 9.2% of my total. This is one of the few times that the percent accurately reflected my total installed RAM.

The below screenshots are of my computer after a fresh restart and after disabling all non-essential startup applications (again, the only third party one is my antivirus because I can't and do not want to turn it off. That's what "Active Monitor Service" is). After a fresh restart, my total usage sticks around 30% which is considerably better, but still bad. This will also eventually go back up to 50% after some regular use, even if I close all background processes possible with task manager.

This is not just an issue while idle, I believe that this is impacting my performance while running other applications. I will notice that even my browser slows down after I've been running my computer for too long, and if I even think about booting up a slightly intensive game then my whole computer freaks out.

To wrap this up, my biggest questions are these:

1. What is causing 30-50% of my RAM to be used because I highly doubt that it's my antivirus and it's clearly not any other third party application
2. Why are the percentages off? Are they supposed to represent the percent of RAM being used or percent of installed RAM?
3. Most importantly, how can I fix this? I have tried a clean restart. I have tried scrubbing away extraneous processes. I have tried turning up and down various settings. I've attempted most of the solutions in this thread and this is where I'm at. Is there even a way to fix this?

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.

I have the same issue, except that I'm on a desktop. I have 16GB of RAM, and the only things open are MS Edge, which bounces between 600.5 MB and 737.8 MB usage idly, and Chrome, which isn't open but shows as a process, bouncing between 125.7 MB and 347.7 MB usage idly, which I don't understand. Why is it even changing when nothing is being used?

My memory usage fluctuates between 49% and 54%. So many processes are running, yet nothing is open, so why all the processes? Even if I stop some processes, they're back when I restart.

I checked Startup apps and even disabled some of them, to no avail.

I agree with ChrisNaude's statement on Page 1 of this thread; how is this possible?

Windows 10 had issues with "Disk 100% usage" and memory. In Windows 11, Disk 100% appears fine, but the memory issue remains a big problem.

What can be done to fix this, as it's making it difficult to work efficiently?