It's showing in screenshot
High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Anonymous
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
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
177 answers
Sort by: Oldest
-
Anonymous
2024-12-11T16:55:56+00:00 Thanks, Chien!
I'm sorry. I have Sticky Notes open, too, but it's not being used and is 28.9MB. That's not much.
Edge is the leading app open, and I'm using it to do research. I understand a lot is happening in the background, but I don't think this is normal. Even when I'm only using Edge, with maybe 20 -30 tabs open, give or take, the memory usage is between 85 and 94%, which is crazy.
I've used Windows since forever, and memory issues like this didn't happen until the last versions, Win 8 and 10, at least from what I experienced. I have always had graphics-heavy apps installed (Adobe, before it went subscription, Corel Draw, Fashion apps, etc.) and all open at the same time, with multiple browser tabs open, and never had this issue, and that was before I ever had 16G of RAM. It was usually 8G, and it worked fine -- although I once had a random HP with 12G of RAM.
Nonetheless, I'm not alone from the comments in this thread; we all can't be wrong. Windows 11 has a memory issue.
It went from a Disk 100%, CPU and memory issues in Win 10 to a memory issue in Win 11.
-
Anonymous
2024-12-11T17:43:13+00:00 No problem. You can download and install Windows Memory cleaner This free RAM cleaner uses native Windows features to optimize memory .... from GitHub. Also, uninstall any extra extensions. Otherwise, it's "normal".
-
Anonymous
2024-12-11T17:44:12+00:00 ... we all can't be wrong. Windows 11 has a memory issue.
I wonder why it doesn't have a memory issue for me.
-
Anonymous
2024-12-11T22:32:50+00:00 Do you have an integrated GPU or a dedicated GPU?
Issue is related to BIOS/UEFI/Windows OS assigning most of the RAM as STATICLY shared VRAM instead of allowing for a dynamic allocation.
Followed then by not properly listing the Shared RAM as VRAM for the IGPU, making it to look like you are missing a chunk of your RAM for no reason.IF you have a IGPU and a dedicated GPU attempt to A. Turn off the IGPU in BIOS/UEFI or B. Set a maximum (instead of allowing auto,) amount of RAM that can be allocated as "Shared" VRAM.