It doesn’t happen everyday, so it’s hard to investigate.
Every few days, my running applications would crash because of low memory. When I try to investigate, I see msedgewebview2.exe having high memory usage. But before I can do anything, it usually terminates on its own, so I am not able to research more.
Note: I noticed it’s process description said something like “COM surrogate”. I mentioned this because there are other instances of the application running but they have different description
Microsoft Edge WebView2 is essentially used to embed web pages in
native applications. It’s used in the Windows 11 Widgets app for showing
news stories and also by Microsoft teams.
If you wish to reclaim the memory back, there are several methods:
With Task Manager, terminate the processes of “Windows Widgets” and
“Microsoft Teams”
Disable Microsoft Teams on Startup
Disable Windows Widgets using Windows Registry, key HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3078088237-2142244905-4044066433-1002\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Dsh, setting IsPrelaunchEnabled to 0
Uninstall Microsoft Edge WebView2 via Third-Party Utility such as Revo Uninstaller Free.
This might affect other applications than just Microsoft Edge WebView2
and Teams.
For more information with screenshots, see the article