Windows 10: "Start" process consuming too much RAM

Lately some of my apps started to crash because of insufficient memory. When I checked the task manager, I saw that the "Start" process was eating about 4GB's of RAM. I killed the process and it did go back to normal. But it happens every once in a while with seemingly no specific causes. If it helps, I started noticing this behaviour after I installed docker on my system.

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Some processes are consuming too much ram

Hi there! I am on the latest version of windows 11 and I am facing this issue recently. When I boot up, the ram consumed is most by Desktop windows manager (now this process has been consuming ram lately never saw it in first place utilizing so much of ram - about 200mb), Antimalware Service Executable (as always, I have tried so many fixes but this process wont stop consuming about 200mb of ram even when idle), windows explorer (for this too, I never saw explorer in the top programs consuming so much memory - about 150-200mb) and lastly Windows Input experience (seen this recently consuming about 100-150mb ram). I know these numbers might sound very less, but believe me with just a single tab of edge opened and these my ram usage easily goes beyond 60% (out of 8gb ram) which I dont think should've gone. Is there any setting or a feature that I am missing out thats allowing the OS to use so much memory? Or is this *normal*?
My Laptop (Nitro 5 AN515-57):
i5 11400H

8gb DDR4 3200Mhz
Nvidia 3050 GPU
Windows 11 22621.755 (latest as I am writing this) + Windows insider release preview

 

Where is my RAM?

Hi,





Cache stored on Windows
10 restricts your PC
from working efficiently. If there is a continuous and high volume of cached read requests from any process or from any
driver, the working set (the number of memory pages in the physical RAM)
size of the system file cache will grow to meet this demand.
The system file cache consumes the physical RAM. Therefore, sufficient
amounts of physical RAM are not available for other processes.

On 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems, the size of the virtual address range is typically larger than
the physical RAM. In this situation, the working set for the system file cache can increase to consume most of the physical RAM.

We suggest that you clear caches on your Windows 10 computer to resolve memory usage issues. Few things that you
can try clearing are the Windows Store and Temp Files caches. Check out the steps below:

How to clear the Windows Store cache:

• 
  Press
  Windows + R keys to open a
  Run prompt.
  
• 
  Type
  WSReset.exe
  into the text box, then click
  OK.
  

How to clear the Temp Files cache:

• 
  Open the
  Start menu.
  
• 
  Type
  Disk Cleanup, then
  press Enter.
  
• 
  Under the
  Disk Cleanup tab, uncheck all boxes except for
  Temporary Files, then click
  OK.
  

Hope the above information helps.
Feel free to contact us if you need further help.

 

Boot Process

Hi,

Please suggest me a link that can explain the boot process step by step of ...

• Windows 7,
• Windows 8.1,
• Windows 10,
• Windows Server 2008 R2 and
• Windows Server 2012 R2

With Regards

InTech