Windows 10: Recovery D: is almost full [1.86 gb free of 15.6 gb]

Hi, my laptop is an HP Pavilion running on Intel core i5 8th gen and windows 11 as of Nov 2021Lately, like in the last six months to a year, my laptop has been slower and slower. I use it mostly for college via a chrome browser and I recently noticed my recovery disk is almost full. For context, I have 1.86 GB of 15.6 GB free. I'm thinking if I can find a way to either get more disk space or free up some of my current disk space my laptop might run better, but I don't know. I haven't been able to find anything I these threads about current windows systems with this issue. Can anyone help?

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More than 6 GB of RAM of 16 GB missing

I have a fast W10 64bit 16GB RAM pc.

Task Manager shows me around 900 MB used for Me as as user, no other user accounts on the pc, the list I can see also adds up to around that, "Everything" taking around 470 MB, Antimalware 140 MB, Windows Explorer 42 MB, etc., it quickly goes down to processes
not using more than 5 MB, than 1 MB, and the list is not endless, I can clearly see (without adding one-by-one) that the about 870 MB my user account takes, according to the Task Manager, are more or less correct, certainly not above 1 GB, from 16.

According to the Task Manager, just 45 % of memory is free though:

182 Processes, 2680 Thread, 70,000 Handlers, CPU 1 %.

Available memory 7.3 GB of 15.9 GB = 45 %, this remains stable, before I start any other program.

In use (compressed) 6,9 GB (0 MB)

Committed 7.7 GB of 18.3 GB (my graphics card also has 2 GB, so this might explain the difference between 16 and 18.3).

Pages pool 184 MB

Non-pages pool 176 MB.

So does W10 64 bit really need, above the user account's less than 1 GB, another almost 7 GB, so that from my 16 GB, just 7.7 GB remain usable for my software (except for "Everything"'s 470 MB)?

I had installed, and de-installed (!), 2 RAM-Disks some weeks ago, and I don't see any residuals from them, but could them be the culprits? Wouldn't that be shown in the above numbers?

Is Windows really that bad, or might I have non-Windows problems on my pc?

 

Recovery D drive

I have had a windows 10 for about 8 months now. It is not my main laptop and there is little stored on it.

I have noticed that the RECOVERY (D shows 13.6 GB USED 1.06 GB FREE.

This doesn't seem right.

Any suggestions or explanations would be appreciated

 

D Drive - New Computer. 13.9 GB used. Only 1.2GB remaining

have a new computer. I don't see the files on my D drive. It says 13.9 GB used and only 1.2 GB remaining. However, no files are listed. I purchased this computer in Jan. Nothing shows me what is on the D drive