I'm very confused. The processes in the task manager do not add up to 12GB. maybe 4 at most.<p>The other stats in task manager for memory say:<p>In use (compressed) - 13 GB (371 MB)<p>Available: 2.5 GB<p>Committed: 15.0/27.0 GB<p>Cached: 2.5 GB<p>Paged Pool: 400MB<p>Non-paged Pool: 410MB
I believe more details would be required to answer your question such as a list of the auto-started programs that may be either running or suspended by default. Process Explorer <i>part of Sysinternals Suit</i> [1] can provide more details especially if more columns are enabled and if Process Explorer is running as an Administrator account. One can sort by committed memory and look at the state of both the background services and programs that auto-start. Even the default task manager should show some of this.<p>The auto-started/suspended programs can be configured to not auto-start. If this is the Home edition some things may be hidden or harder to turn off unless one runs O&O's ShutUp 10 [2] <i>which also runs on Windows 11</i> and there are some settings within Edge to turn off auto-starting and pre-loading some widgets <i>required even if one does not use Edge</i>.<p>[1] - <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10</a>
Just a couple troubleshooting idea that come to mind:<p>- Which memory column are you looking at? (differences between private, committed, shared, working set, etc.)<p>- Are you running WSL, virtual machines, or anything like that?<p>- Is your account an administrator on the box?<p>- Try Resource Monitor instead of Task Manager - there's a lot more memory information there
nowhere does it say they should add up...where did you get that idea? there is a help page where all those numbers are explained...specifically, committed memory is not the same as process memory
kernel-mode based memory allocations don't show in user-mode application reporting. Anything allocating memory such as kernel-mode device drivers, etc.. will make it appear that there is something amiss, but as many others have said its pretty normal.