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. VARADHARAJAN K 9,726 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-05-21T07:11:12+00:00

    You have installed lots of applications , running continuously background, eventhough, currently you not using application.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-29T10:32:18+00:00

    just switch to 10. cz 11 is not optimal yet for ram and CPU usage.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-22T07:48:48+00:00

    same issue, 32gb, windows show 50% ram used, without any thing above 200mb

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-28T05:00:46+00:00

    I have the same issue. just reseted my pc and still the same, I need to find a way to go back to windows 10. how can I do it? I have a dell g7 with 16Gb of ram, and right after reseting my pc, it started with 43% of ram usage!!! basicaly I cannot run any other apps, or it get clogged so fast. Now I wanna go back to windows 10, but apparently I had only 10 days to do it (*#&($*!!!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-06-28T22:44:38+00:00

    It's because windows 11 takes 4GB to run idle, the tasks are taking up another 4ish and laptops/some desktops have IGPUs which share system RAM. If you have a discrete GPU on desktop this wouldn't happen. Also it's never a good idea to have multiple game hubs running even in BG. Last note: Discord should never use that much RAM in BG ever.

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