🧩 Step 3: Turn Off Unneeded Background Services Press Win + R, type services.msc, and press Enter. Look for these services and set them to “Manual” or “Disabled” (only if you don’t use them): SysMain Windows Search (if you rarely use search) Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Fax Print Spooler (if no printer) Windows Update Medic Service (keep normal Windows Update on manual instead)🔒 Step 4: Check for Memory Leaks or Defender Issues
1. Open Windows Security → Virus & threat protection → Settings → Manage settings.
2. Temporarily disable Real-time protection (to test if Defender is hogging RAM).
3. If memory drops significantly, consider installing a lighter antivirus like Bitdefender Free or Kaspersky Free. 🚀 Step 5: Adjust for Best Performance
1. Right-click This PC → Properties → Advanced system settings.
2. Under Performance, click Settings.
3. Choose Adjust for best performance (or manually disable animations).
4. Apply and restart. 💾 Step 6: Check for Malware or Bloatware
Run a scan using:
Malwarebytes Free
AdwCleaner
This can remove hidden background programs that cause memory spikes.
Disable OneDrive auto start (Right-click OneDrive icon → Settings → Uncheck “Start with Windows”)
Use Autoruns (by Microsoft Sysinternals) to manage hidden background tasks.
Update BIOS and drivers from your laptop/PC manufacturer.
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✅ Typical Results:
After doing all this, your idle memory usage should drop from 40% → around 20–25% depending on total RAM (for example, ~3–4 GB on 16 GB system). below are two ready-to-run .BAT scripts:
1. memory_tweak.bat — safely reduces common background memory usage (stops certain services, prevents some apps from auto-starting, hides Widgets, kills common RAM-heavy background apps).
2. memory_revert.bat — attempts to put those services back to their usual automatic start behavior and re-start them, and re-enables Widgets.
Important (read first)
Run these as Administrator (right-click → Run as administrator).
I recommend creating a System Restore point manually before running (Start → type “Create a restore point” → System Protection → Create). The script will try to create one but it can fail if system protection is off.
These scripts are conservative — they set a few services to manual rather than fully disabled so Windows functionality stays safe. If you rely on a printer, game saving, or telemetry features, the revert script will restore things.
If something looks off afterwards, run the revert script as admin to restore defaults and then reboot. 1) memory_tweak.bat
Save the code below into a file named memory_tweak.bat and run as administrator.
@echo off :: memory_tweak.bat :: Run as Administrator
:: — Admin check — openfiles >nul 2>&1 if %errorlevel% NEQ 0 ( echo This script requires Administrator privileges. echo Right-click the file and choose “Run as administrator”. pause exit /b 1 )
echo. echo Creating a System Restore Point (may fail if System Protection is disabled)… powershell -Command “if ((Get-ComputerRestorePoint -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null) {Checkpoint-Computer -Description ‘BeforeMemoryTweaks’ -RestorePointType ‘MODIFY_SETTINGS’}” 2>nul
echo. echo Stopping and setting certain services to manual (safer than disabled)… :: SysMain (formerly Superfetch) – can use lots of memory on some systems sc config “SysMain” start= demand net stop “SysMain” >nul 2>&1
:: Windows Search – indexing can use RAM sc config “WSearch” start= demand net stop “WSearch” >nul 2>&1
:: Connected User Experiences and Telemetry (diagnostics) – optional telemetry that can run in background sc config “DiagTrack” start= demand net stop “DiagTrack” >nul 2>&1
:: Print Spooler -> set to manual (if you use printer, Windows will start it when needed) sc config “Spooler” start= demand net stop “Spooler” >nul 2>&1
:: (Do NOT disable critical update services here) echo Services updated.
echo. echo Disabling Widgets on taskbar for current user… :: Hides the Widgets (ShellFeedsTaskbar = 0) reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds” /v “ShellFeedsTaskbar” /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul 2>&1
echo. echo Stopping common background apps (OneDrive, Teams, Spotify, Discord, etc.) and removing their current Run startup entries (current user). taskkill /im OneDrive.exe /f >nul 2>&1 taskkill /im Teams.exe /f >nul 2>&1 taskkill /im Spotify.exe /f >nul 2>&1 taskkill /im Discord.exe /f >nul 2>&1 taskkill /im “MicrosoftEdge.exe” /f >nul 2>&1
:: Remove common Run keys from current user (prevents auto-start next login) reg delete “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” /v “OneDrive” /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” /v “Teams” /f >nul 2>&1 reg delete “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” /v “Spotify” /f >nul 2>&1
echo. echo Optional: To fully uninstall OneDrive, run (as admin): echo %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall (on some systems use Sysnative or System32) echo (Only do that if you don’t need OneDrive.) echo.
echo Done. Recommended: reboot to apply all changes. echo If you want to revert changes, run memory_revert.bat as Administrator. pause 2) memory_revert.bat
Save as memory_revert.bat and run as administrator to restore service start modes and re-enable Widgets:
@echo off :: memory_revert.bat :: Run as Administrator
:: — Admin check — openfiles >nul 2>&1 if %errorlevel% NEQ 0 ( echo This script requires Administrator privileges. echo Right-click the file and choose “Run as administrator”. pause exit /b 1 )
echo Attempting to restore services to Automatic start and start them… sc config “SysMain” start= auto net start “SysMain” >nul 2>&1
sc config “WSearch” start= auto net start “WSearch” >nul 2>&1
sc config “DiagTrack” start= auto net start “DiagTrack” >nul 2>&1
sc config “Spooler” start= auto net start “Spooler” >nul 2>&1
echo. echo Re-enabling Widgets on taskbar for current user… reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds” /v “ShellFeedsTaskbar” /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f >nul 2>&1
echo. echo NOTE: Startup entries for OneDrive/Teams/Spotify were removed by the tweak script. echo If you want those apps to autostart again, re-enable them from each app’s Settings or reinstall the app. echo Done. Recommended: reboot now. pause Short explanation of what these commands do
Set SysMain and Windows Search (WSearch) to manual and stop them: both can use RAM for prefetching/indexing. Manual start lets Windows start them when needed.
Set DiagTrack (telemetry) to manual and stop it — reduces background telemetry tasks.
Set Spooler to manual (printer service) to avoid it running if you’re not printing.
Change Widgets setting in registry to hide the Widgets panel (low-risk).
Kill and remove Run entries for common user-level apps (OneDrive, Teams, Spotify, Discord) so they don’t auto-start and consume RAM. You can re-enable them later from each app’s settings.
