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Why Windows 11 is always using so much RAM

Open Task Manager on a Windows 11 PC, and it's easy to panic no matter how much RAM you have. Even without many apps open, your computer will likely be using more than 50 percent of its memory.

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Open Task Manager on a Windows 11 PC, and it's easy to panic no matter how much RAM you have. Even without many apps open, your computer will likely be using more than 50 percent of its memory. And while this seems like a problem, most of the time it isn't. While 16GB of RAM is the standard for modern computers, that doesn't mean it's no longer enough just because your PC is using almost all of it.

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