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
    2023-01-20T12:25:09+00:00

    He's talking out of his backside I'm afraid as when it comes down to machine level, there is no such thing as memory reservation and you cannot use more memory to increase computer speed. More memory usage by Windows means that when creating the OS, Microsoft Engineers have used more instructions to perform the same tasks that Windows 10 did with less - therefore it is less efficient and worse, not better and faster. Unused RAM is RAM with unlimited potential, wasted RAM is Memory that could have been saved by making a program more efficient

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T10:19:58+00:00

    I will tell you what the problem is. Windows 11 sucks and there are about 200-300 windows procceses running eating up all the resources. My laptop after installing windows 11 also became way slower then on windows 10. so wundows 11 is another downgrade in how it uses resources from windows 10.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-19T02:37:16+00:00

    Disabling the setting improved RAM usage at idle state for me

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-06T13:17:15+00:00

    Good Day Spark30,

    I appreciate your time getting back to this thread, it appears that third-party apps taking most of the ram, you can visit this link as reference and perform cleanboot.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-t...

    Restart and and check the Ram usage.

    Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

    Sincerely,

    Carlo T.

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