Introduction

Google Chrome is the most used browser and when we work on it heavily, its RAM memory CPU is used in a large amount and becomes very slow and it becomes very weak and lags, it takes a long time to open and it works very slowly.

The most common reason for excess memory is websites running in the background, which collect data in your browser history, due to which your laptop runs slowly and the memory also fills up. How to clear all of them is needed.

Today, without changing your computer, I will tell you how to clear the RAM memory of your CPU and your CPU will start working well again and there will be no many types of problems and these methods will be very easy, so let’s move on to the steps that clear the RAM etc. of the CPU.

Today, I will tell you the methods due to which the Chrome browser How to clean history and make your slow computer run faster How to clean history and make your computer run fasterHow to Fix Chrome High Memory and CPU Usage Issue in 2026

Why is Google Chrome using so much RAM?

Google Chrome uses the most RAM because websites are very large and require more memory and CPU to run so that they can run well, so it uses more memory and CPU so that the website does not lag etc. and runs well and your problem is also solved easily

How do I reduce Chrome CPU usage?

To make Chrome easier to use, cancel the tabs that are open first and open the minimum tabs that you need, then close them and then type again and again to do other work

Explain and Solution

Hey what’s going on guys Sandeep here and if your Windows 10 or 11 computer is using High RAM memory then there are certain ways you can fix that, you can see that my computer is using 95% of RAM memory, and most of the memory is consumed by Google Chrome, so in this video, you will see different ways to fix High RAM usage by your PC. Now, first thing you can do is press Win+R. Keys together on your keyboard and type sysdm.cpl and click ok.How to Fix Chrome High Memory and CPU Usage Issue in 2026

Now it will open system properties, go to the Advanced tab and then performance and settings, you can select adjust for the best performance but your computer UI will look ugly, so you can only enable these options and rest you can disable, selecting only these options will create a balance between good UI and better performance, rest you can disable. Now hit Apply, and Ok.How to Fix Chrome High Memory and CPU Usage Issue in 2026

This will allow your system to use less RAM memory for the UI functions and it will reduce your RAM memory usage by certain percentage. Now press Windows+R key again and type there “msconfig” and click okay. It will open system configuration, go to the services Tab and check, hide all Microsoft services,

here you will find all the services by third party apps, practically, you can disable all these services and it won’t cause any problem with your PC, but certain apps might not work properly, so if you think a particular service is not important then you can uncheck it, How to Fix Chrome High Memory and CPU Usage Issue in 2026like I don’t want Adobe Acrobat auto update service, so I will disable it and any other service or app which I am not using, I will just uncheck their services, you can disable most of the auto-update services,

and if you are using any printer don’t disable the printer services and your GPU services or if you are using any RGB light software or anything like that you don’t have to disable those Services, rest you can disable, then hit apply and go to the Startup tab open Task Manager or you can open Task Manager manually and then go to the Startup Apps,

now you can disable all the startup apps just sort it by the status and disable all the enabled startup apps, right-click and disable and disabling the startup apps won’t cause any problem, you can always start the apps manually.

After that, click on Ok on the system configuration dialog box and exit without restart. Now let’s go to the menu and then settings apps and then installed apps, you will find a list of all the apps installed on your computer, now you have to click on these three little dots beside any app, and if you see Advanced option, that means you can disable that app from running in the background, however not every app support Advanced options, so you have to check it one by one. For example,

if I click on three little dots beside mail and calendar, it has advanced options, that means I can disable this app from running in the background now you just have to go to the background app permissions and select power optimize or never, so you have to do it one by one for the every app which supports Advanced options next up

, press Windows+R keys together on your keyboard again and type there services.msc and press ok you will find a list of services on your computer here, you have to find certain services, and you can disable them. First one is background intelligence transfer service,How to Fix Chrome High Memory and CPU Usage Issue in 2026 and if you are running any kind of network file transfer, then don’t disable this app; otherwise, you can disable it, right click on the service, and then go to properties and select startup type disabled,

and then hit apply and ok this will also disable the Windows auto-update, but you can manually update your Windows anytime the next service you can disable is sysmain, however, I won’t recommend you to disable sysmain because this service is responsible to prefetch or preload any apps which you are using, and it actually improves the performance of apps you are using on your computer. However, if you see high-RAM memory or high CPU usage, you can disable this app as well, after that, certain apps might run slower but overall your system performance will be good.

Now if you are using Google Chrome, then open the browser and go to menu and settings, and go to Performance option, and enable memory saver this will suspend all the inactive Tabs and save your computer RAM, you can also disable preload Pages this will make your browsing little bit slower however, the ram consumption would be lower as well.How to Fix Chrome High Memory and CPU Usage Issue in 2026

Now go to the system option and disable the option reading “continue running background apps when Chrome is closed,” and then exit. If you are using Microsoft Edge, open it go to the menu then settings and go to the system and performance, disable it from running in the background, and make sure optimize per performance option is checked, all three options should be checked, all right now let’s open any browser and go to the link provided in video description, and download the memory reduct tool, just download and install this tool from the link in video description.

You just have to click on next and next and install the app. After that, you have to click on clear memory, uh let me open the task manager side by side and the ram usage, so that you can see how this app works. Now once I click on clear memory and then you can see that the memory usage is going down, it is actually working, and RAM usage is going down, so this app actually works, and bring down memory usage on your PC,

and you can also automate the RAM cleaning process, just click on the file option settings, and RAM cleaning or memory cleaning and run this app, whenever memory usage goes beyond certain percentage, check this option, clean when above and select the percent, I would like to keep it 80 Now close the app, and it will run in the background whenever memory usage goes beyond the set person percentage.

Now let’s open the system properties again by pressing Windows+R keys and type there sysdm.cpl and press ok, Advance Tab and “settings” under performance and then Advanced tab, here you will see the paging memory, the paging memory isn’t a problem however certain malicious apps or malware might be there in paging memory, so you can try to clean paging memory after every shutdown, this will make your shutdown little bit slower but it will improve the system performance and bring down the ram usage in certain cases.

For that, go to search and look for “regedit” and open registry editor, Now navigate to the following path expand HKEY_Local_Machine then System, Current Control Set, Control and then Session manager expand “Session Manager” and find Memory Management, click on the Memory Management key, and you will find “ClearPageFileAtShutdown”, double click on it and change the value data from 0 to 1 and hit ok. Now you have to restart your computer, after the restart, your computer won’t use high RAM memory, and it will bring down the memory usage.

Now let’s open Task Manager on my PC, performance and you can see that memory usage is around 30%, so this is how you can fix if your computer is using High RAM memory; both on Windows 10 and windows 11, and that’s all for this video guys, hope this helps if so hit the like button, and don’t forget to subscribe also, press the Bell icon to get notified about new videos, and I will see you in my next one.

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Can Chrome extensions cause high memory usage?

Yes, Chrome extensions can cause storage and CPU slowdown, which can make your CPU work very slowly. Deleting unnecessary extensions is a good idea.

Does updating Chrome improve performance?

Yes, updating Chrome can also clear your CPU RAM MB.

Should I reinstall Chrome if it uses too much CPU?

Reinstalling Chrome will not make any difference. You should update and customize it yourself, such as removing unnecessary storage and using it for work only.

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Conclusion

Yes, using more memory and CPU etc. makes Chrome slow and lags. If you delete unnecessary extensions and keep your Chrome browser updated, your Chrome will not be slow. If you delete unnecessary extensions and keep your Chrome browser updated, your Chrome will not be slow.

Updating Chrome deletes unnecessary extensions and frees up your memory and the CPU works well. There is no problem of lag etc., so keep updating and checking that no additional applications have been installed. Take special care of this.

By following all these things, you can clear your CPU and browser history and clean it well and no problem will arise.