hopperr Member Posts: 30 Troubleshooter
edited September 2023 in Windows 11
Hello, I saw that If PC is in Idle, system uses 5-5.5 GB Ram. How Can I fix it? I saw on youtube guides, but I mostly saw that they were doing something in system registry or whatever is it called.
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brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,426 Trailblazer
Hi,
How much RAM in your PC?, it's normal for the system to run background functions of Windows in modern Operating system.
hopperr Member Posts: 30 Troubleshooter
Puraw ACE, Member Posts: 11,730 Trailblazer
That is normal if you have Windows 11 and several 3rd party AV, trial versions and browsers running on the background. It should be 4GB Ram in use on idle but 5GB is OK too. Get rid of some of the bloatware on your PC, uninstall programs you don't use in "Add or Remove programs" disable Startup apps in the Task manager Startup tab and finally clear all your caches and purge redundant and junk files: Open Storage Sense in Windows and scan your boot drive, after that click on the "Temporary" Bin icon at the left bottom of Storage Sense windows and scan for junk files, it may find hundreds of GB old Windows update files like OldDos, delete all that. If your memory is 90% in use, consider adding more RAM SODIMM modules. Do not touch the Windows Registry or try to change BIOS settings, but post your questions/issues on this forum with your full PC model, year, what RAM you have installed and the Windows version that you have.
If you don't know these details, type System Info in the Search bar and post that.
brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,426 Trailblazer
Yes, it's normal, when you try using more memory required programs, apps etc, the system will allocate RAM accordingly, so it's normal for the system to utilise RAM when the system is idle.