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Fix Microsoft Teams High CPU and Memory Usage

Fix Microsoft Teams High CPU and Memory Usage

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Madalina Dinita 3 Comments

Microsoft Teams may sometimes use too much CPU power and memory, affecting your computer’s performance.

In this guide, we’ll talk about why Microsoft Teams can sometimes turn into a resource-hogging program. We’ll also see what you can do to solve this problem on Windows 10.

Why is Microsoft Teams Using so Much CPU?

It appears that Microsoft Teams causes high CPU usage due to compatibility issues with other programs. On Windows 10, it is the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Office that seems to trigger high CPU usage.

Why Does Microsoft Teams Take Up so Much Memory?

Microsoft Teams relies on the Electron platform. As a result, Teams needs to constantly load a relatively large number of libraries. Some suggest this is causing the spike in memory usage that many users complained about.

Microsoft Teams: How do I Fix High CPU and RAM Usage?

Disable Outlook Add-In

  1. Launch Outlook and select Options.
  2. Then click on Add-ins.
  3. Uncheck Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Office.Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Office outlook
  4. Untick the Teamviewer Meeting Add-in as well.
  5. Save the changes and restart Outlook for the changes to take full effect.

Disable Hardware Acceleration

  1. Launch Microsoft Teams and go to Settings.
  2. Click on the General tab.
  3. Disable GPU hardware acceleration.microsoft teams disable GPU hardware acceleration
  4. Right-click on the Teams icon in the system tray. Close the program.
  5. Right-click on your desktop and select Refresh to quick your system.
  6. Relaunch Teams and check if you notice any improvements.

Some users said that disabling Teams as the chat app for Office also helps.
Go back to the General tab under Settings. Locate and disable Register Teams as the chat app for Office.

register teams as the chat app for office

Close Background Programs

If Microsoft Teams really needs that much CPU power, why not let it have it all? Close any programs running in the background and check if this helps.

You can use the Task Manager to do that. Launch the tool, click on the Processes tab, and then right-click on the programs you don’t need. Select End task to close them.

task manager end task pc

Turn Off Read Receipts

Disabling Read receipts can help you reduce the CPU and memory load that Teams often puts on your hardware.

  1. Launch Team and click on your profile photo.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Click on Privacy and disable Read receipts.microsoft teams read receipts
  4. Close Teams from the system tray. Then relaunch it.

Clear the Cache

Microsoft Teams may randomly try to access the files stored in the cache folder. To prevent the program from doing that, you can simply clear the cache.

  1. Press Windows + R to open a Run window.
  2. Then type %appdata% and hit Enter.
  3. Navigate to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams.appdata microsoft teams
  4. Go ahead and empty the following folders (delete only the files, not the folders themselves):
    •  tmp folder
    • Blob_storage
    • Cache
    • GPUCache
    • databases
    • Local Storage
  5. In the IndexedDB folder, delete only the .db file.
  6. Close Microsoft Teams and restart your computer.

Adjust Visual Effects for Best Performance

Adjusting the visual effects for best performance is something that worked for some users to some extend.

  1. Go to Start and type ‘adjust performance‘ in the Windows Search bar.
  2. Click on Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows.
  3. Select the Visual Effects tab.
  4. Check the Adjust for the best performance option. This will disable your video effects and animations.adjust visual effects best performance
  5. Restart your computer.

Increase the Pagefile Size

If your machine is equipped with an SSD, increase the Pagefile size. Users confirmed they no longer experienced lockups or shutdowns after setting the Pagefile size to a higher value.

So, instead of letting Windows manage your Pagefile, go ahead manually adjust the values yourself.

Steps to change the Pagefile:

  1. Type SystemPropertiesAdvanced in the Windows Search bar and press Enter.
  2. Under Performance, click on Settings.
  3. Then click again on the Advanced tab.
  4. Under Virtual memory, click on the Change button.performance options virtual memory pc
  5. Untick Automatically managing paging file size for all drives.
  6. Select Custom size and manually set up the pagefile size you need. Go for 16GB.virtual memory custom size
  7. Apply the changes. Reload Teams and check if this helps.

There you go; we hope one of these solutions worked for you. Do let us know which method worked best for you.

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Comments

  1. Someonearound says

    April 13, 2021 at 8:07 am

    Can we delete that application or whatever

  2. Annoyed IT Admin says

    March 2, 2021 at 2:53 pm

    Microsoft needs to fix this performance problems with TEAMS.

  3. Annoyed IT employee says

    January 19, 2021 at 6:57 am

    This article is called “Fix Microsoft Teams High CPU and Memory Usage”

    So why is one of the solutions to close other apps with the reasoning that:

    “If Microsoft Teams really needs that much CPU power, why not let it have it all? Close any programs running in the background and check if this helps.”

    That’s not FIXING the issue, that’s making it worse because it allows Teams to claim more RAM.

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