I'd like to thank everyone who has replied you probably didn't even realise how much you were helping this random person on the internet today.Windows Explorer Memory Leak (IMPORTANT) PLEASE UPVOTE THE FEEDBACK ON FEEDBACK HUB from Windows11 Reddit user reports Windows 11 contains memory leak issue Memory leaks occur when the system does not free up RAM when a program is closed Due to the Memory Leak issue in Windows 11, the system is allocating additional RAM to Windows File Explorer. Writing this post this morning and reading your responses has helped me to think about the fact there will be changes more rationally and I'm going to do some research and allow myself time to deal with this. Since it is already on my laptop I'm going to check a few of these things out and look at windows 11, and maybe, if I like it enough, see about running anything that can't run in windows 11 in a VM. Plus some of the things I use on my computer are a little niche and I don't know yet if they have been moved onto windows 11.

That seems like a reasonable explanation for how it might have happened if consent is still required for windows 11 updates to happen.Īnother reason I wrote this is because I'm on the autistic spectrum, change needs to be managed, I was about to go to work, the house (and the shop where I work) were a little flooded, which was already stressing me a little and this was enough that if I didn't find myself an outlet I might have had a bit of an executive dysfunction meltdown. I assume this can't just be happening with me.Įdit: One of the reasons I posted this is because I was sure I hadn't hit yes to anything and I don't like that, u/Purple10tacle pointed out maybe by hitting enter to wake up the laptop it's been enough to hit 'yes' on a nag screen.

I thought they weren't going to force the update on people. I guess I'll have to rollback to windows 10 after work. I can't count the number of times I've clicked not to go onto windows 11, every single time it's told me it is ready to update I've said not to.and yet today, my machine loads up telling me it's updating to windows 11 for me, there is no option to cancel the download or stop the installation.

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