[SOLVED] vmmemCmZygote process...

[henterpriser]

Hello everyone
So I was just wondering around and realized windows is using 7/16gb of ram when idle!

As a pretty routine user the first thing that I've done was to check task manager.... NOTHING, the numbers weren't adding up.
Here "resource monitor" came in action and showed me a process I've never seen in my life committing around 1GB of ram called vmmemCmZygote

And yeah I was denied to terminate it.

Before you reply with "Oh! those are Hyper-V and MDAG processes, just disable them!" I'm not using and never used any of those features

Also

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Another interesting fact is that the legitimate vmmem process(Like windows sandbox) are not hidden in task manager but this one is.
Proccess is persistent after restart.

What I've tried:
SFC
DISM
Malwarebytes scan

Any sort of advice is highly appreciated

 

[Ralston18]

Use Process Explorer (Microsoft, free) to take a deeper look into things.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Another place to look is in Task Scheduler.

Some other running and legitmate process may be triggering (and continually triggering) the vmmemCmZygote process.

 

[henterpriser]

Hello Ralston18 and thanks for replying


I've got these results from Process Explorer

I'm wondering if windows 11 22H2 insider preview is actually broken after all.

And about task scheduler I don't really know what to look for since this vm thing has no path or name

 

[henterpriser]

Update: I disabled "Container management service" AND "Hyper-V Host Compute Service" thus the ram usage on vmmemCmZygote basically went 0

Update 2: After disabling those 2 services and "Windows Sandbox" feature entirely followed by a restart the problem seems to be solved.