Windows 10 and Photos Software for Windows 10 Photo management tools available
Windows 10 and Photos Software for Windows 10 Photo management tools available
Only a single individual is using the photos app, consuming 7GB of storage. Was there an oversight?
It happens occasionally. I haven't really seen it lately, and I don't recall the exact process. However, you can turn on the older photo viewer that came with Windows 7 or earlier. It's still available in Windows 10 (at least recently), just adjust a few registry entries and set it as an "open with" option.
I can imagine that Windows eats lot of memory when people using, for example, Ccleaner and clear thumbnails cache, then Microsoft programs like Photos must recreate that thumbnails cache based on photos folders recently opened for improve browsing experience in the future etc. So it may be vicious circle - cleaning cache, recreating cache (that may use lot of memory because multicore/multithreading operations). Do you use any cleaners for that? Maybe some resident autorun program for "improving" memory management? Just 2 photos? It looks like much more. For sure Windows trying to preload lot of them. Look, it's just memory, it supposed to be used by programs to speed up everything. And BTW. do you have pagefile (virtual memory) disabled?