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
    2022-09-19T02:37:16+00:00

    Disabling the setting improved RAM usage at idle state for me

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-19T12:55:56+00:00

    I have the same problem as most here; starting up idle will be at about 50% memory usage (16gb ram). Even after I tried all the tips I've seen here and other places, it's still at about 40% at clean startup, with the processes not adding up properly in the Activity monitor. In RamMap, processes add upp to the same thing as in Acitivity monitor, but Mapped File, Nonmanaged Pool, System PTE, Paged Pool, Sharable, Driver Lock, etc will add up to almost 4gb of of active memory usage. I have too little experience troubleshooting memory issues to know what to look for at this point in time.

    Starting edge with a few tabs, visual studio and other necessary tools will put me at 97% memory usage and that will make it slow as hell to work.

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  4. VARADHARAJAN K 9,726 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-09-19T13:26:32+00:00

    Disable running background tasks .

    Delete possible tasks registered under task scheduler.

    Increase page file size.

    Uninstall rarely used softwares

    Check in services tab, unknown services are added and started automatically

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-20T06:42:51+00:00

    Been doing all of those things; nothing has had any noticeable effect.

    I've done a clean startup, without anything starting automatically, and even then 40% memory is used just after startup.

    Uninstalled all the software I could, played with the page file size up and down (windows had automatically set it to about 29gb).

    It is a corporate machine, so some bloat exists, but nothing extreme in my opinion. I'm mostly confused about the 4gb that is missing from the Activity monitor, where do they go?

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