A PC raises often because of the lack or saturation of its RAM. You can save a few hundred mega-castes by deactivating or deleting this Windows gadget.
RAM, also called RAM for Random Access Memoryis an essential component of the proper functioning of a computer, and is often the main bottleneck in performance. Unfortunately, modern applications rarely optimize their use of RAM, and the programs that run in the background are more and more numerous.
If the best solution remains to increase the RAM on your computer, adding faster and larger capacity bars, it costs a little money and is not always possible. On most of the laptops marketed today, the RAM is indeed united to the motherboard, and therefore cannot be replaced or extended.
On an old or not very powerful PC, it is therefore a good reflex to seek to reduce the use of RAM, by deactivating unnecessary applications and services. And in this area, one of the integrated components of Windows is a good candidate: widgets. Because in addition to being relatively annoying and not very useful on a daily basis, they can mobilize up to several hundred mega-wes (MB) of RAM.
The widgets are materialized by a button to the left of the taskbar, which opens a window containing several boxes, which display continuous information on various themes. Weather, sports results, stock market courses, news, so many “information flows” which can certainly be interesting, but which we can just as easily access by a conventional web browser.
Since this component is continuously turning into a background, it mobilizes material resources permanently (processor, RAM, network), all the more when displayed on the screen. And as its window opens automatically as soon as you fly over your button in the taskbar, it is not uncommon to open it inadvertently several times a day.
If the widgets are of no use to you, you can fortunately make them a little less intrusive and resource -gourmet thanks to a few simple settings. First, open the widgets by clicking on their button in the taskbar, then access the settings by clicking on the gear icon on the left of the window.
In the windows Settings, first uncheck the option Open the painting of widgets in an overviewwhich will prevent the untimely appearance of widgets. Then click on the section Show or hide the tables and deactivate the option Flow. With this action alone, the quantity of RAM used by widgets when open is divided by two, going from around 350 MB to 125 MB.
Finally, to go further and get rid of widgets completely, you will have to make a detour by the Windows terminal. Make a right click on the menu button To start up in the taskbar, then click on TERMINAL (Administrator) and validate the authorization request for User account control By clicking on the button Yes.
In the window that opens, copy and paste the command then Winget Uninstall “Windows Web Experience Pack” and validate by pressing Entrance. After restarting your PC, the widgets will then have completely disappeared. And if you were missing, you can reinstall them by opening the Windows terminal again and using the command Winget Install -9MSSGKG348SP. Restart your computer, and you will then find the widgets at their original location in the taskbar.