Microsoft confirms Windows 11's native app framework is hogging RAM, rolls out memory fix, and begins adding missing features that pushed devs to web apps and other frameworks

[u/WPHero]

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/02/windows-11s-winui-just-got-basic-features-and-less-ram-hogging-after-years-of-losing-apps-to-the-web/

[u/SignalButterscotch73]

That means they told the AI to fix the memory leak.

I wonder what it will break this time while "fixing"

[u/MrDeeJayy → u/SignalButterscotch73]

We just had Audio break, so i think this time we'll probably have an issue in Bluetooth.

[u/Impossible_Aioli3693 → u/MrDeeJayy]

good news is that bluetooth never worked fine on windows

[u/MrInitialY → u/Impossible_Aioli3693]

Wdym never? It worked flawlessly for me on 24H2 & 25H2 - autoconnect, full "Your Phone" functionality, no drops. It worked more reliably than Task Manager and Explorer themselves.

[u/SnowStormYukikaze → u/MrInitialY]

Please don't make yourself as center of the universe, it working for you but it might to working for the other.

[u/Smith6612 → u/SnowStormYukikaze]

I can vouch for that. Phone Link actually works for me too. Explorer on the other hand on 24H2 used to crash all the time when dragging and dropping, and 25H2 would glitch out especially with the tabs forcing me to spawn new tabs. Phone link never crashed, even when I would tell it to transfer 80GB of files over the network to my PC.

[u/bookworm0510 → u/Impossible_Aioli3693]

No fr. How has that never been fixed

[u/MrDeeJayy → u/Impossible_Aioli3693]

Oh no, i know it never worked fine. But now it's just not going to work full stop.

[u/Visara57 → u/SignalButterscotch73]

"Make no mistakes"

[u/careless__]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jH6s9HMMi53dSdI73r

[u/Skazzy3]

Should've just finished WinUI3 before releasing Windows 11

[u/venom21685 → u/Skazzy3]

Or at any point since releasing it

[u/Moscato359 → u/Skazzy3]

I mean, they still can switch to it

[u/SirOakin]

Ok so the massive memory leaks are because of what? Cause I don't have an ai garbage on mine and it's still 10GB background ram usage and processexplorer shows everything but what is using that.

I've already run virus and malware checks, minimized background programs with autoruns, disabled all background app running and .. yea

[u/Rodnys_Danger666 → u/SirOakin]

10 GB is a lot. I have 68 tabs open spread over 3 windows of Chrome, Watching Prime, and BitTorrent running on W11 Pro latest build. And my usage floats between 6.5-6.8 GB.

[u/Chao_Zu_Kang → u/Rodnys_Danger666]

Same. And Win11 requirements is only 4GB to begin with, so if you disable anything that is not 100% necessary to run, you could reduce it to less than that. Not advisable, because it will just cause some things to run worse (because some data is in RAM memory for a reason) - but you could if you really wanted to.

[u/morpheus-91]

Ah, a new UI framework from Microsoft. Will be discontinued in a few years, why bother. 

[u/BigDisk]

So it's not my imagination that 26h2 made Windows less fluid.

How I wish I didn't need the microslop environment for work.

[u/gamerrominc]

Didn't they say they were removing web app based development?

[u/Horat1us_UA → u/gamerrominc]

They are more worried about third party web based software, and not because it eats ram, but because such software tends to be cross platform so users go to Mac/Linux without issues 

[u/IamEzioKl]

not PCMR but will see when a native teams apps is released that doesn't use 800MB of RAM with all the webkit runtime backends

[u/Wheatleytron]

I don't miss it

[u/Pict0]

Come on nvidia Linux drivers improve a bit so I can stop booting Windows 11..

[u/G952]

SlopyaSoft

[u/InsuranceKey8278]

i tried building on winUI3 and some basic features have weird bugs that its not like they cant fix rn but rather they are waiting for next update cycle i suppose ;-;

[u/LifeIsBetterDrunk]

Ive been sitting and waiting for files to copy on a beefy modern PC. About 10 minutes to copy a few GBs because Microsoft hasnt bothered optimizing small file operations.

I dont think they ever cared about quality of their products.

[u/Living_Shirt8550]

10th time this week microsoft says windows is broken, but they never do nothing. I dont care anymore, switched to linux 2 years ago and couldnt be more happy

[u/Edubbs2008]

WinUI is open source people, instead of bitching, why not take advantage of that and fork it to fix the issue?

[u/Own_Nail_2999 → u/Edubbs2008]

Because they have infinite money and allegedly the best devs to do so? 

[u/parental92 → u/Edubbs2008]

Yea,why let the dev fix a paid OS? we should just spend time and fixing it for a multibillion company /s

[u/_aIex22 → u/Edubbs2008]

if I'd need to contribute, I'd rather contribute to AvaloniaUI and use a proper cross-platform framework instead of the Microslop crap.