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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
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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
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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
 

henterpriser

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Hello Ralston18 and thanks for replying


I've got these results from Process Explorer
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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
 

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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.
 
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