Increased Backround Activity and ram usage with WIN 10

[LittleBigRunner]

So after months of windows 10 failing to install it finally worked. I noticed that is was running slow and went to investigate. Upon opening task manager i found the idle ram/cpu usage increased a lot. Before after some tweaks in windows 8.1 the idle ram usage was about 1 - 1.1 gb. Now it is about 2gb with windows 10. I am sure that there is a ton on backround activity which is hogging ram i don't need and was wondering if anyone knew how to disable all this unnessesary ram usage.

Thanks, any help would be appreciated!

 

[getochkn]

Or it's something from your old install that hogging it up. Upgrades don't always go well if you upgraded from 8.1 to 10 without a fresh install.

I install 10 on an older business PC I had, core2duo, 2GB of RAM as a Kodi box and it uses less than a GB of RAM on startup. Of course I don't have a bunch of start up things either.

 

[Mashakal]

I spent several hours working to resolve this after upgrading on my laptop last night.

I have 16gb of RAM but things were taking a long time. I was also getting messages that memory space was low practically right after the laptop started up.

To solve it, I changed the virtual memory settings to some that were outlined on another post (I will find it for you after this). I also changed the settings on Chrome to disallow both of the options under System ("continue running background apps when chrome is closed" and also "use hardware acceleration when available"). I have a feeling it was the latter changes, the ones to Chrome, that made the difference.

Lastly, I disabled each of McAfee's services that I was allowed to.

 

[Ihmhi6]

I have a friend with Windows 10 who was stuck with a similar problem and this worked as a last resort:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=c64e4e66544cfb0663468333cb667c63&t=1870618

I went with the bottom-most option, remove all Metro apps except the Windows Store. His RAM usage plummeted like a stone. He was fine with it because he used absolutely none of that stuff.

Just from the poking around I did, Win 10 seems to be a bit of a memory hog in some cases. =\