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Cutting Windows Background Bloat: Running OneDrive on a Daily Timer
OneDrive is likely a top-10 memory consumer on your PC, using 400-600+ MB of ram. If you are cleaning up background tasks (memory ain’t cheap these days), OneDrive should be on your kill list.
Left running 24/7 , OneDrive.exe consumes loads of ram, a WebView2 instance, constant background CPU cycles, disk I/O, and directory-watcher overhead. Moreover, Onedrive activates dozens of support resources, including running at login, about 8 scheduled tasks for running automated updates, that can interfere with PC performance.