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Windows 11's built-in weather app is silently eating over 1GB of your RAM

Who knew that a weather forecast could be so memory-hungry?
TweakTown

Windows 11 weather app uses more than 1GB RAM on its own

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Windows 11's built-in Weather app is apparently one of the most wasteful apps on the entire OS, and the numbers are surprisingly bad. According to testing ...
How-To Geek on MSN

4 super-minimalist apps that replace Windows' bloated, cluttered defaults

Who needs Windows default apps when you've got these lightweight alternatives!
techtimes

Windows 11 Weather App Silently Consumes 15 Percent of RAM on 8 GB PCs

Windows 11's built-in Weather app — the one sitting in your taskbar right now — is not a weather app. It is a full Chromium browser instance masquerading as one, and independent testing published ...
ExtremeTech

The Windows 11 Weather App Eats Far More RAM Than You'd Think

Windows 11's built-in weather app has been found to use well over 1GB of RAM in some tests. That's roughly 5 times the memory required by the macOS weather app, which uses about 246.7MB. Windows ...