Of course with so much of w10 looking to 'phone home to mommy' all the time who knows what's using up ram, I guess it could be temporary too but I doubt it. Microsoft has also added a lot of visual effects like tooltips and menus in Windows 10. Reduce Visual Effects Windows 10 comes with a lot of features. You can use antivirus to check for malware. Hence, your computer will become slow with time.

They will steal your system resources like memory. The app runs into problems from time to time, and it tends to freeze when dealing with large photo albums, or when importing photos from devices like a phone or camera. It comes with basic image editing tools, a few image effects, and a video editor. Photos is the stock image viewer on Windows 10. I think the Photos app was in there but I have all windows built in apps set to not auto update, and I haven't seen a major OS update come in for at least a few weeks. You must regularly check your computer for malware. Microsoft Photos.exe High Memory Usage (SOLVED) on Windows 10 - NewsBreak.

The highest memory usage was 'desktop window manager' or something, so the new higher usage must be from a combination of things. Here's a rundown of the options you'll find on Resource Monitor's Memory tab. game DVR off, unless Chrome or Firefox updated and left something new running but they didn't show up in task manager. Windows 10 offers a number of ways to keep an eye on your system's memory usage.

I keep as clean a system as possible, no extra startup apps, background apps option was off last time I checked it. Not a huge difference I know but like was said earlier I too dislike things that aren't optimized. Have you guys noticed Win10 using more system ram the past week or two? Right after bootup at the desktop MSI Afterburner is telling me there's ~2300MB used when up until only a few days ago it was always below 2k and more like 1700.

Windows 10 photos memory usage