Windows 11 default desktop Chat/Teams widgets are Edge web views that eat up hundreds of MB of memory: https://archive.is/pyvEO
Edge also preloads in the background even if it's not the default browser: https://archive.md/AAjz4
Both links also detail how to disable these "features."
My work laptop i5 (quad core) is absolutely crushed by all the garbage. Still on Win10 for work, but I paid $20 to upgrade the RAM to 16 GB myself (added a 2nd 8 GB stick) a while back, I don't know how people survive with 8. Splunkd is probably the worst.
I don't want to open word docs in Teams thank you, open in app, Are you sure you want to open in app?