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25h2 update is a memory hog

Anonymous
2025-02-01T06:28:50+00:00

Just updated to W11 25H2 update. What I immediately noticed was my RAM usage went up 2GB, I have 16GB RAM and I typically was using approx 5-6GB ram. Now the system is using 7-8 GB ram. That on top of the updated Office 365 both of these updates are using copilot which which just aggravates the issue. I've turned off Copilot since I don't like it anyway and don't use it. I've gone into task manager and turned off little used apps/programs that use memory. MS really needs to do something about this. Now I have to consider adding more memory. I look forward to anyone's comments. Thanks

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  1. Jeronimo Fuerte 25,885 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-02-01T09:53:57+00:00

    Hi, Arejfour, I am Jeronimo, Thanks for reaching out! I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you.

    Windows 11 is designed to use any free memory to cache frequently used data. This behavior isn’t necessarily a bug, since, if you launch a memory‐intensive application, the system is programmed to free up that memory quickly.

    Compared to earlier versions of Windows, Windows 11 is optimized for systems with abundant memory. It doesn’t “waste” RAM in the conventional sense; instead, it uses unused memory to improve performance. As a result, your Task Manager might show higher usage even though performance isn’t actually suffering.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-16T07:54:21+00:00

    I still say that 24H2 is using more RAM than before. Three times-now, System Mechanic (SM) has given me a low memory alert. Prior to installation of 24H2 I never had a low memory alert. My system is a Dell XPS 8950 512 SSD and 16GB Ram. From what I can tell I'm using 2+GB more RAM than before. See attached screen shot. At times the in use number exceeds 8 GB. That's when I get an alert. Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-02T08:55:28+00:00

    I should have said 24H2 not 25H2.

    Sorry for any confusion

    Despite what you said when I check my RAM usage screen it's definitely using more RAM

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  4. Jeronimo Fuerte 25,885 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-02-02T09:20:01+00:00

    As I mentioned before, it uses it because it is available to be used, but the moment you need to use it the system releases it so that it does not affect performance.

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