The easiest way of dealing with such situations is to fire up Task Manager, check what process is hogging memory, and close it.

How to check device uptime from Task Manager To check the computer uptime with Task Manager, use these steps: Open Start. Search for Task Manager and click the top result to open the experience ...

Windows users may know about the Task Manager that allows you to see CPU and memory usage of each task, but Chrome has one of its own as well.

How to check Process ID from Task Manager on Windows 11 To find out the app's "Process ID" number on Windows 11, use these steps: Open Start.

If Task Manager Performance Tab is frozen, not showing processes, or not updating in real-time in Windows 11/10, then see this post.

You're using the new Windows 11 Task Manager, but you like the old Task Manager better? No problem: With this trick, you can start the old task manager immediately.