Why the ever loving fuck does Windows take MORE ram to close a fucking program, than to run it. I'm STOPPING a fucking operation. There is nothing about this concept that requires more processing or memory. When I click the fucking close button, you're supposed to free up memory and stop running shit. Not the opposite.

I can kind of see this for some programs.

Take Word. It seems like most of their Office products have all sorts of recovery files and auto-save features... so I could kind of see how at close ram would go up for a second to consolidate the copies of the document into the final saved .docx file. Same for Excel.

Adobe is the same with their .recovered files created on a Photoshop or Illustrator crash.

What I'd do is download more ram.

No. The close button is a request - and it's the program's choice what it does with it. It's the same behaviour on Linux (and kind of on MacOS).

@HiFiWiFiSciFi downloading more ram is always advisable