High RAM at Idle

[pebbleberries]

My laptop has 8GB of DDR3L and it is using about 25% at idle.

No, I don't have a chrome tab open either.

Is there a way I can lower the RAM usage?

I optimized Windows 10 for gaming.

 

[manddy123]

I believe that's just the lowest you can get.
After all you're still running the whole OS behind the screen.

So it's not tottaly idle. The minimum requeriments for W10 is between 1 and 2GB of RAM, maybe that's why you get those 25% of usage, as 25% of 8GB is 2GB.

Maybe you can check for some other processess running in the background too, Updates, Anti-Virus, Other programs... They can be chewing up some RAM also.

 

[InvalidError]

Windows maintains stats of your most frequently used software and preloads some related libraries after boot to make re-opening those quicker.

 

[pebbleberries]

Thanks, just weird because last month it used about 10% of my RAM.

 

[maxwellmelon]

agree with invaliderror. windows can take some time to learn and also to adjust to different usage but it will try to cache files that's why it will change as it adjust to your usage

 

[pebbleberries]

ok