Windows 10: My laptop uses nearly Gigabytes of ram when idle

Greetings,

I wanted to use my laptop to do a bit more than just browsing the web and i noticed that it was not as performant as i expected.

After verification on the performance bar of the Task Manager I noticed that almost 5 Gigs of Ram were constantly being used even with nothing running I even turned off some background running programs like skype or steam but nothing changed.

On the web I generally found people saying that a pc at Idle should use a bit more than 2 Gigs of Ram, so what is happening here?

I have an Asus Vivobook pro with 16 gigs of Ram.

If anyone can help in anyway I'd appreciate it very much.


P.S: I'm not an expert of computers so I'm sorry in advance if I seem to not understand what you'll explain.


Here's a screenshot taken with chrome running




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More ram usage when idle

Hi. I am using Dell inspiron 15 5577 gaming laptop,windows 10 intel i5-7300HQ processor with 8gb ram and gtx 1050 4gb. When my laptop is idle the ram usage is more than 3gb out of 8gb and there are nearly 200processes running. what can I do about it?
Is it normal ? Because my laptop hangs a lot and the gaming performance is not upto the mark. Help me with this please.

 

High idle ram usage 8gb using 60%

"ram usage at idle is 60%"

- Not a fix for your unknown RAM use (Greg's suggestions should help with that), and this only adds up to a bit under 1GB use but...

A system is not at idle with around eight Chrome browser Windows and tabs open.

Discord, and two active searches. Not to mention a system hogging 'Anti-malware' program.

Desktop Window Manager is using more than usual as well.

- It looks like you have a bit of DELL bloatware running too.

- What is the RAM use straight after re-booting Windows ?

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Windows Using Upwards of 60% RAM when Idle

Hey community,

I've noticed when my system is idle (nothing actively open), it's using 50% to 60% RAM. I've searched around a bunch and tried some suggestions, but none have fixed the issue. I've booted into safe mode in an attempt to find the source of the issue but wasn't
able to as the system idled at only 15%.

My computer has 16 GB of RAM, but I can really only use half of it. Looking through the running processes in Task Manager and Resource Monitor, the usage values don't even add up to the amount used - something hidden is using a bunch of extra RAM.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.

System Specs:

Intel Core i7 6700k

16 GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB

Let me know if I need to provide more information.