should i be worried?

[Icosa!]

when idling, my pc uses 40-45% of my ram memory (8gb), if its some stupid windows feature is there some way to stop it?

[potato]

your os and background applications/services are supposed to use ram

8gb ram is pretty low nowadays, you should have 16gb at least

[Bing Chilling]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU5F01oOzQQ&list=WL&index=351&t

[Pocket Change]

List your PC specs, OP.

[Icosa!]

Ursprungligen skrivet av potato:

your os and background applications/services are supposed to use ram

yes, but there is no way they are using 4gb i checked the task manager and they should be taking 1.2 gb of my ram

[potato]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Icosa!:

yes, but there is no way they are using 4gb i checked the task manager and they should be taking 1.2 gb of my ram

you should get more ram

[Tristin]

Yes, you should be worried. The spyware OS will eat up your system performance and your private data.

With 8gb RAM, I'd stick with Linux, where you can control what is being ran.

If you want to stay, better upgrade.

[Icosa!]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tristin:

Yes, you should be worried. The spyware OS will eat up your system performance and your private data.

With 8gb RAM, I'd stick with Linux, where you can control what is being ran.

If you want to stay, better upgrade.

yeah, some people have told me that its probably just "windows being windows", also searched up my problem on google and apparently many people had it, i will probably change to linux but for now ill stay a little bit longer with windows

[Chaosolous]

You could switch to Linux.

[Icosa!]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Chaosolous:

You could switch to Linux.

i will, but not right now, the second they cut support for windows 10 im inmediately switching to linux

[tareco]

No bro chill....

[HermitTheToad]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Icosa!:

when idling, my pc uses 40-45% of my ram memory (8gb), if its some stupid windows feature is there some way to stop it?

What browser are you using? Browsers like Edge or Crome like to run background programs (newsflash their spying on you), but you can go into your settings and block them.

[Bing Chilling]

use the video provided.ez

[Azza ☠]

No...

Windows is designed to use RAM and will keep the DLLs in memory to recall quicker. This means if you open/close the same app regularly, for example, it's already loaded in memory.

It just marks them as "free" while still using that memory. When a large amount of memory is required for an app/game, it's released instantly.

Go to your Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) > Performance (tab) > Memory. Notice the "Cached" amount. It might say in usage 8.1GB, but 6.4GB cached. That means your PC is actually only using 1.7GB, and the rest can be freed up at any time by the Operating System, when requested.

Some silly RAM Booster apps merely just release that manually, to make it appear like you got back your RAM cache, when it's done automatically by Windows anyways.

If you seriously wanted to do that, all you would need to do is right-click on your Desktop > create a New > ShortCut and type:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

Name the shortcut "Clear Memory Cache" or whatever you like.

However, you don't even need to do that.

You are better off reducing Window's background startup apps and bloat software instead.

Go to your Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) > Startup apps

Only if you know what they are and don't need it, right-click Status > Disable

It will remain on that list so you can go back and Enable it again, if ever required. Mostly you just want the security software and required apps to run devices, such as your headphones, etc.

[Morkonan]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Icosa!:

when idling, my pc uses 40-45% of my ram memory (8gb), if its some stupid windows feature is there some way to stop it?

Without any other information, your system's current usage of RAM doesn't indicate anything other than its use of RAM...

And, given how bloated Windows (10-11) it would not be surprising to see it happily running three different logging and telemetry reporting tools at the same time.

At this moment, my laptop is using around 3gig to run Steam while posting this and running background services.

[A&A]

No, it is not an issue.
Disable superfetch and prefetch then the usage should be around 1.4GB
I don't know if RAM compression is turned on or off, nor how big is your page/swap file