Question Slow Windows 11 due to memory leak ?

[Lamarr the Strelok]

Hello all! I've been on computers since Windows 98 SE and never really had any RAM issues.
I updated Win 10 to Win 11 using the bypass stuff (Haswell). After getting it setup it was actually pretty neat.Then about 5 hours later I noticed I was using 15.9GB of my 16GB Patriot DDR3 RAM.
So I opened Task Manager (eventually) and nothing was using more than eg 40mb of RAM even though it shows 99% is being used ?

So I thought I just needed to restart the PC. It starts out at about 2.6GB and over 3 hours or so it balloons to
8GB being used, and it goes until a few more hours til it becomes unusable.
At no time does any program use more than like 40MB or so.
Window 10 and 2 flavors of linux don't do this either.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Lutfij]

I updated win 10 to 11 using the bypass stuff (Haswell).
If you upgraded to Windows 11 using the internal upgrade path found on Windows 10, then you will need to reinstall Windows 11. The internal upgrade process usually leads to a corrupt OS and is where your memoryleak issue stems from. You can try sfc/ scannow and system restores to your hearts content but that doesn't remedy memoryleaks on Windows OSes.

I migrated from my i7-4770K+EVGA Z97 Stinger platform to an AM5 platform early last year, taking the leap of faith onto Windows 11 as Windows 10 was getting worse with each update. You should follow suit as any workarounds is just time consuming.

Moved thread from Systems section to Windows 11 section.

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

As far as I remember you can't update to 11 through the screen on 10 that says your pc can't run 11.(regedit stuff?) I never tried it when I was on 10.
No, I got the iso from microsoft and let rufus do it's magic.And I'm just doing normal internet stuff as the ram problem happens.
What can I do outside of upgrading to get it running properly?My rig is old but it does what I need .

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

Now it's working fine. It's no big deal if my rig won't run it the best because of it's age but I was just wondering if this is a problem with win 11 'official' upgraders that pass the spec check.As I say no big deal either way,really.It's not too hard to reboot every few hours.

 

[johnbl]

windows does a lot of work after a fresh install. after it goes idle, it will attempt to read every location on your drives looking for bad/weak locations to fix.
the windows memory manager will also, preload programs into standby memory. this means windows just has to change a bit to mark it as active memory so it look like the program loaded very fast.
also, windows now compresses data in memory then writes it to your pagefile.sys

best to let the system idle for some time so it can finish all of its house keeping and let things settle down.

note: you can use microsoft rammap64.exe to see what is loaded into standby memory. you can also use the empty menu item in this program to tell windows to clear the list of preloaded programs. I have found that windows loads entire games that I have not played in months. Just in case I want to play again.

 

[colin.p]

This week, I started to have memory leakage where after a couple hours, my RAM pegged at 99% usage. The things that may have caused the issue was a windows update KB5055523 (MS sent that update twice in a couple days) and a Nvidia update (which I have since reverted back to an earlier driver). I then noticed that Phone Link was running at high memory usage, so I then disabled Phone Link and my RAM now happily runs around 30-35%.

I don't know if the updates triggered it or not but (at the moment) all seems to be ok.

 

[Lamarr the Strelok]

Thanks all. As Lutfij suggested it would be best to get more updated stuff but that's not an option right now.Colin as you probably know the phone link thing can be turned off under startup programs.
I learned the hard way in 98 se not to turn things off if you don't know what they do. Current windows has even more stuff so even more complicated. It was worth a try to see if it was fixable.