Unfortunately these days, 4GB RAM is really not enough. I understand that a machine can run on 4 but it's basically at the low, low end of the scale. This is not just a Win10/11 issue, depending on what your using, even multiple tabs in your browser of choice will eat this up pretty quickly. Cheers.
There could be a lot of reasons for yours running slow. Critic09 indicates their system, which has similar stats, runs fine. Your issue could be because of how startup items you run, for instance. I'm not really finding Windows 11 to be particularly any more memory hungry than Windows 10 all things considered.
you should probably check that your drivers are updated to the recent.... as mention by Jvickers about the start up you should have that check too. And look at your cores too at Task Manager.. I've found out some users have face problem of running only in 1 core instead of the given number after the installation of W11.. its fixable too... I've been using it on my main system since the day of the release and its more lighter than the other previous windows..
Thanks, critic09. I completely forgot that Windows likes to be stingy with cores and usually sets core usage to 1 and not the number of cores your processor actually has. I just changed mine to 8. This hopefully will speed things up some (not that I was having speed issues to begin with).
Well, I changed the cores and didn't see much of a difference in speed. Also, from what I understand, Windows parks and unparks cores as necessary. I just read up on it a little more. Some recommend not to manually set the number of cores. Still, it's worth trying to see if there's a change in system performance.
