"Alright, ghost," she whispered to the machine. "Let's exorcise you."
The biggest monster was hidden: Microsoft Teams' chat integration. It lived inside File Explorer, sipping 400 MB just to show a contact icon. A quick registry tweak ( HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced ) and a new DWORD called TaskbarMn set to 0 killed it. reduce ram usage windows 11
She left the Task Manager pinned to her taskbar anyway. Just in case. "Alright, ghost," she whispered to the machine
Her first target was the startup tab. A rogue's gallery of applications had been sneaking in every boot: Spotify, Slack, Adobe's CRX launcher, and three updaters for printers she hadn't owned since 2021. She disabled them all. That saved 1.2 GB. Her first target was the startup tab
Finally, she opened Edge (yes, Edge) and turned on "Efficiency mode" and "Sleeping tabs." Chrome was a memory vampire.