How to Resolve High CPU and Battery Usage by Microsoft Teams on Windows 10 PC

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By default, Microsoft Teams starts automatically with your computer and remains active in the background, ready and waiting to be used.

During active use, Microsoft Teams tries to use all available computer resources to give you the best possible video streams.

However, this behavior can sometimes lead to high memory, CPU, and battery usage in Windows 10, especially on low-cost computers with little RAM and CPU.

What causes high CPU and battery usage in Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams is based on an electronic platform. As a result, it constantly loads a large number of libraries. Some users believe that this is the reason Teams uses so much memory.

Microsoft Teams uses the Chromium memory management model, which is part of Electron. It is used by Teams to render the user interface and text. Since this is a graphics-intensive application, rendering plays an important role, which leads to a lot of memory consumption.

In addition, Teams has compatibility issues with other programs, resulting in high CPU utilization. In Windows 10, the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Office is responsible for these problems.

How to eliminate the high CPU and battery load in Microsoft Teams?

Turn off Read Receipts

1. If you opened Microsoft Teams as described above, click the profile icon in the upper-right corner of the window.
2. Then go to the Settings section.
3. In the left pane, click Privacy and look for the ‘Read Receipts’.
4. Turn off the feature when you’re done.

Closing Microsoft Teams with Task Manager and Activity Monitor

1. First, open the Task Manager using the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + ESC.
2. You can also just find “Task Manager” on the Start menu and open it from there.
3. By default, Task Manager should open in full-screen mode. However, if you’re missing some features, simply move your mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen and click the Details button.
4. In the Processes tab, now click on any running application and type “Microsoft Teams”. This will automatically find and highlight the Microsoft Teams process running on your computer.
5. Finally, right-click on the process and select End Task to remove all traces of this process from your computer’s memory.

Disable GPU hardware acceleration

1. First, open Microsoft Teams, then go to the profile icon in the top right corner of the window.
2. Then scroll down with your mouse and click on Settings.
3. By default, you should be directed to the General tab. A list of features will appear here. Find them and turn on the Disable GPU hardware acceleration option.

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