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When I open Edge - just a single tab - the Task Manager always shows that there are about 20 instances of it running. Commonly meaning >100% of Memory is being used - which means everything is terribly slow. How can I stop this happening?
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Hi,
I'm Sumit, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.
On Edge, go to:
edge://settings/system
Turn off:
Startup boost
Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed
This should be resolved.
No. this had no effect. Of course, closing down all Edge processes and then reopening, still the number of processes (17) far exceeds the one tab I have open - see attachment.
Thank you - can you try to re-add the attachment aka screenshot?
attachment as requested. see Disc is maxed out by all these uneccessary multiple processes
Thank you, on the same page, please turn everything off except for graphics acceleration and let me know(especially efficiency mode).