Microsoft Edge | Speed and responsiveness | Windows 10
Improving performance and responsiveness of Edge on Windows 10
No. nothing improved -
In fact after a minute, the number of processes increased from 18 to 22 -
Microsoft Edge multiple processes running, impacting Memory Usage
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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?
Microsoft Edge | Speed and responsiveness | Windows 10
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Anonymous
2024-04-25T08:43:03+00:00 -
Anonymous
2024-04-25T15:55:09+00:00 Please download and run Autoruns:
https://download.sysinternals.com/files/Autorun...
Do you see any entry of msedge.exe?
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Anonymous
2024-04-26T09:57:20+00:00 yes, in startup (only)....
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Anonymous
2024-04-26T11:18:58+00:00 Thank you.
Can you uncheck and reboot the computer?
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Anonymous
2024-05-04T17:01:17+00:00 I had been having a memory leak that was causing windows explorer to hang when waking from sleep and messing up my dual monitor. Turning off these settings has fixed the issue.