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
    2024-12-12T22:15:10+00:00

    I don't know if you have integrated graphics - I don't know anything about your computer. If you do have integrated graphics, it is obviously already disabled in the BIOS (if you have an older computer) or the UEFI (if you have a newer computer) since you are showing 0MB system memory. So much for step A.

    Your graphics card already limits the amount of on-card RAM that can be shared with the system. As I explained, the maximum amount of video RAM that is available to be shared with your computer - if the computer needs it - is 8,122GB. So much for step B. If the computer needs less than 8,122GB, it will use less. If it needs more, too bad, since the graphics card reserves 8GB of video RAM for itself.

    Not only do these two steps make no sense, neither would prevent your computer from using unnecessary amounts of RAM. If you want to know what's using RAM on your computer, open Task Manager and set is to display the processes in order of the amount of RAM they are using.

    In my copy of Windows 11, which doesn't seem to be affected by the memory issue you believe is affecting your copy of Windows 11, the only app I am using at the moment is my browser. Here are the big users of RAM in my computer:

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    My antivirus app - BitDefender - is the big user, as is File Explorer (which is still called Windows Explorer internally). These are both background processes, as I explained originally. The other big user is my browser, which I am actively using. All other processes use less than 100MB of RAM each, which is a tiny amount. And everything put together is only using 31% of my available RAM, a very reasonable amount which leaves plenty of headroom.

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  2. VARADHARAJAN K 9,726 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-13T14:08:37+00:00

    I have Intel i5 13500 processor which is an integrated graphics unit and i have dedicated Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB v ram graphics card both are installed in Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX motherbaord with four 16GB 5600mhz ddr5 ram modules.

    Virtual memory set to manual

    When Internal graphics is set to Enabled, in BIOS

    the following options are visible

    DVMT pre activated set to 160M

    Aperture size set to 1024MB

    Display properties

    When Internal graphics is set to AUTO, in BIOS

    the following options are not visible

    DVMT pre activated

    Aperture size

    Display properties

    In both cases, dedicated graphics memory 12115MB does not change.

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