[LinuxBender]

I believe more details would be required to answer your question such as a list of the auto-started programs that may be either running or suspended by default. Process Explorer part of Sysinternals Suit [1] can provide more details especially if more columns are enabled and if Process Explorer is running as an Administrator account. One can sort by committed memory and look at the state of both the background services and programs that auto-start. Even the default task manager should show some of this.

The auto-started/suspended programs can be configured to not auto-start. If this is the Home edition some things may be hidden or harder to turn off unless one runs O&O's ShutUp 10 [2] which also runs on Windows 11 and there are some settings within Edge to turn off auto-starting and pre-loading some widgets required even if one does not use Edge.

[1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/

[2] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10