But there is adisadvantagewith this app!
Windows 10 users who are using old builds have complained of high memory usage.
Even people with 36GB RAM have 99% usage when this widget is activated.
News and Interests taking up memoryhas been a long waiting problem.
The main reason is thememory leakin the Windows programming code.
Hence, this app continues to gulp memory instead of releasing it.
Generally, browsers like Chrome, Edge, Firefox use lot of memory.
But when News and Interests starts using extra memory, then thecomputer slows down.
Pagefile size will increase after RAM has been completely used up resulting in less hard disk space.
To address the memory leak issue, the only solution is toupdate Windows 10to the latestOctober 2022 update.
I see the latest releases have patched up the memory leak.
Windows 10 News and Interests memory usage What is the Reason ?
Users complained of high memory usage due to Feeds and Search.
This issue can be because of different reasons.
But some are error free and dont have issues.
In this solution guide, lets see how tofix News and Interests taking up memory.
It should make theNews and Interests widgetdisappear from the Taskbar.
Now check the Task Manager.
See the amount of CPU and RAM used.
If they are reaching near 90 to 100%, then proceed to the second solution.
If you see the feeds process, kill it.
If you are using Windows 10 Pro and higher version, you have administrator privileges.
Double poke the option Enable news and interests on the taskbar.
Check the optionDisabledon the next pop-up screen.
It will permanently stop the processes related to News and Interests widget.
If you are using Windows 10 Home, you might not have access to group policy editor.
Then it’s possible for you to make use of the registry editor.
Go to the item ShellFeedsTaskbarViewModeand set the value to2.
It should stop the high memory usage of News and Interests widget in Windows 10.
There can be other quality updates that can sort out the problem.
So pressWin + Ikeys forSettings > Update & Security.
Check for the latest updates.
As ofOctober 2022, KB5018482is the latest cumulative update with version 22H2.
Im not having any problems with my computer configuration and Windows 10 Pro.
The latest updates keep the feeds process in suspended mode to prevent high cpu and memory usage.
AMD and NVIDIA driver updates
We connect several devices to our computer.
Some are internal and others are external.
GPU graphic cards are mostly from NVIDIA and there are other companies.
There can be incompatibility between processor and graphic cards.
In-built gpu cards also can cause problems.
Windows 10 automatically searches for the latest drivers and installs them.
Otherwise, you canmanually download them from the NVIDIA graphics driverspage and install them.
Third-party Security Tools
Naive Windows 10 users will install multiple anti-virus and firewalls.
One of the users installed BitDefender Firewall and had to disable it.
Then you turn off the News and Interests widget.
Both these things helped him reduce the memory usage.
you’re free to try uninstalling programs, disable startup programs etc if the above fixes dont work.
The last resort is to take it to a pc expert who can troubleshoot your problem.
Even 32GB RAM systems were having the problem.
The cause is not less RAM, but the processes.
Even increasing the Virtual memory can help sometimes.
I always prefer SSD over HDD for faster operations and prevent memory hogs.
