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
    2022-04-18T12:10:49+00:00

    I also had same problem, windows 10 was just taking 2.4 GB RAM just to startup, looks like windows 11 required 4.2 GB RAM. I was unable to use my laptop for more then 1 week because just had 8 GB RAM, so added one more stick of 8GB RAM to total 16 GB for doing same multi-tasking that i could do on windows 10 with 8GB RAM. Looks like windows 11 user interface uses so much memory, or it contains so many bots or Microsoft services in background. I just wanted to use windows 11, but mostly for longer battery life and memory i used it with dual booted with ubuntu. windows 11 also just half my battery life, which was around 8 hours on full charge now dropped to 5 hours. Or may be it was Asus software's and services and drivers they provide are doing this problems on windows 11.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T07:04:00+00:00

    Hello. I have 16 gb ram and I want to understand, where my ram does go. It shows usage of 5.76 gb ram in total(2 gb ram is being used by processes shown on the screen). Well.. windows 11 is eating approximately 4 gb and I am interested where does it go :D

    I know that its better to create new thread but I think if there will be many people with this problem, then microsoft will notice this

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T18:50:26+00:00

    I have 8gb ram installed of which approximately 4gb are being used by unknown services in Windows11.

    I could reduce the usage even further (up to 300mb less) but I still want to keep things like some animations and transparency effects (im a fancy mf) and have kept running maany optional default processes "just in case".

    My ram specs are 2 sticks Ramaxel branded 4gb DDR3 1600MHz each. Additionally 12288mb maximum allocated virtual memory on SSD disk.

    Again, and as mentioned by others, Windows10 did consume much less ram (like 2gb while idle and nothing open) in my case too and without any overcomplicated tweaks. Still not willing to switch back though haha

    The real mystery is where all the additional memory usage going 🤔

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-21T06:00:15+00:00

    Possibly so much ram is being ate because Microsoft forgot about rational RAM usage. Each service takes its so Windows 11 is eating too much. Would be better, if all services ate less. Currently I don't want to do something with Windows 11. Even I have programming skills I just want to feel entire normal customer experience XD

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T09:44:28+00:00

    hii i have same issue its taking 50% to 60% percent on idle ,how do i fix this

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