Why the hell does it use so much ram for a tiny ass picture!?

When working on an example of a context menu and NotifyIcon made with only code, either language I used (C# or VB) it ALWAYS took up about 17MB of ram.

When I add it to any of my projects it seems to add about 10-11MB of ram usage. That's just physical usage, I wasn't even monitoring the VM usage.

Why the hell? Does the framework have a memory leak somewhere?