Is Vista having a laugh (memory usage)

Rackerz · 5 Feb 2008 at 18:32

I kept my XP install just incase, and upon start up it uses a modest 250MB of memory.

Vista however, is not so modest. It uses around 800MB, maybe I'm a bit of a noob but is that right? What can I do to minimize this amount?

Thanks

uv · 5 Feb 2008 at 18:35

Rackerz said:
maybe I'm a bit of a noob but is that right?

fraid so

You have X amount of RAM - when it's sitting there doing nothing, it's being wasted!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/superfetch.mspx

skanky · 5 Feb 2008 at 18:38

like the above poster points out: you have the RAM, whats so good about being able to say "i got this amount of ram free!!" when i use windows..

wouldnt you rather it was being used?

NathanE · 5 Feb 2008 at 18:50

Superfetch delibrately attempts to fill as much would-be "free" RAM as possible. It speeds up your system A LOT.

metalmackey · 5 Feb 2008 at 21:39

Is there a way of seeing what Superfetch has loaded into RAM?

this_is_gav · 5 Feb 2008 at 21:47

No idea. It won't make much difference initially (may even slow the system down a touch), but give it a week or so to learn your habits and when you go back to XP you'll soon realise just how much slower things like Photoshop load up. Like 20 seconds instead of 3 seconds slower.