The report highlights that microsoft has promised to tackle this problem. Native Windows 11 apps use a lot of RAM, and that slows down Windows 11 computers.
As part of the ongoing story, to this end, Microsoft plans to optimize the WinUI 3 framework before the patch is rolled out. According to Windows Current, Microsoft intends to improve RAM management with a major Windows 11 patch.
As part of the ongoing story, these improvements to memory usage are vital before Microsoft is able to reprogram various Windows elements (such as the Start menu) using WinUI 3. Back at the Build 2026 developer conference held in June, Microsoft had already unveiled changes to WinUI that aimed to reduce the amount of RAM used by the framework.
The report highlights that chris Anderson, a developer on Microsoft’s Windows UI team, says that further improvements are planned, particularly in the areas of “performance, fundamentals, and quality.” This is intended to pave the way for larger projects and revamps.
The report highlights that and this stuff all actually hit the public in our Git repo.”. Anderson also said: “On the performance side we’ve invested heavily in really improving memory usage as well as switching over to a system compositor, which should yield some even better performance improvements.
The report highlights that with the introduction of the WinUI version, users will hardly notice any visible changes in the Start menu, but on low-spec PCs, Windows 11 should run a little more smoothly and use less RAM overall. Microsoft is already internally testing changes to memory usage, performance, and reliability for WinUI, ahead of the planned drop of the fresh Start menu based on this revised framework.
The report highlights that most recently, Microsoft promised to retire older Windows UI elements dating back to the Windows 95 era and bring them to the modern era with WinUI 3. That said, Microsoft hasn’t provided any specific figures regarding the reduction in RAM usage.
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In a fresh development, this article originally appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
As part of the ongoing story, he has been writing on almost all IT topics for around 25 years, covering everything from news to reviews and buying guides. Hans-Christian Dirscherl began his IT life with Autoexec.bat and config.sys, Turbo-Pascal and C, Sinix and Wordperfect.