yeh same here! on idle ram usage goes around 60 and never stays under 50 . even though I dont have any of much games or apps in my laptop and task manager also seems good .
High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc
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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,
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Anonymous
2022-01-06T12:55:18+00:00 Here is a screenshot, sorted with highest ram usage on the top. Everything running are background processes.
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Anonymous
2022-03-24T13:44:11+00:00 If you don't see anything in particular then it may be a memory leak. If it drops after a reboot then you may have a memory leak in there somewhere. It can be in any software that uses memory.
If it doesn't drop after a reboot then you have stuff installed that's taking it up and just aren't seeing it.
Its possible that its Windows 11 with still another memory leak or something. Its as equally possible to be anything else.
For comparison, on Windows 10 I'm seeing 30% usage of 16GB with everything I use and have installed at this exact moment. That's with nearly 1GB taken by Firefox at the moment.
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2022-11-21T09:40:04+00:00 How bout THIS.
I have SIXTY FOUR GIGS of memory
windows consistently IDLING AT 11-13% USAGEThats 10-13GB of memory to sit on its **** and do nothing.
GTFOH
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Anonymous
2022-04-12T19:06:01+00:00 Hey, I tried doing what this post suggests and it partially solved my problem (RAM usage is much better now after a reboot):