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I can make Windows 10 "use ~375MB of RAM" by simply only giving it 384MB, then it hammers the pagefile. Granted, if you're not out of RAM like OP's screenshot (600MB out of 2GB) it shouldn't get to an extreme pagefile usage situation at all times.
it's normal for windows to use ~10gb while doing lightweight stuff like web use, etc. background apps, startup apps, and windows services. try disabling startup apps that you don't need, adjust your pagefile size, or just add more ram
Windows 10 has a feature called "Prefetch" and "Superfetch" that loads your most used apps into RAM so they can open much faster. If you need that RAM, Windows 10 will release it, so don't worry – you're not permanently down 7GB that you can't use. It'll be free if you need it.
2 paź 2012 · I have to monitor my computer physical memory (RAM) usage constantly when I'm working, because sometimes I will work with multiple applications (e.g Sublime Text, Photoshop, MS Visual Studio and Chrome with 10+ tabs open) - and I want to know what's the current RAM usage so I won't push it too far.
21 gru 2021 · Windows will try to use all available memory but for 256K (so if you start a program there is space to load without paging anything out). The memory page is made up. It is an interpretation of the actual memory status.
4 kwi 2021 · I recently noticed that my RAM usage is way to high at around 7-8gb idle. I have 12GB installed in my system. I went into task manager, but all of the background processes barely reach 2gb in...
12 lip 2018 · Since this question is about Memory, it would help if you sort your Task Manager display by "Memory" instead of "CPU" so we can see what uses the most memory on your PC. For starters though, that Cortana is using more than 100MB of memory is a huge red flag.
