Vista memory usage at boot?

willhub · 4 Sep 2007 at 14:55

Hi.

I've noticed when I first boot up and load into Windows, every time my memory usage is around 50%, and after about 3 mins (same time as it takes for the HDD Activity light to go off) the memory usage returns to it's norm of about 30-33%.

Why does this happen?

Thanks
Willz.

willhub · 4 Sep 2007 at 15:13

Does your main PC have superfetch disabled? Does this actually help much?

Instead of making another thread, I'll post this in here:

Any idea what these unknown devices could be from these numbers?:

willhub · 5 Sep 2007 at 12:26

I booted into Windows Vista today and my memory usage was 25%, not bad considering XP's is 19-21%.

I followed this guide and it's certainly made my PC in Vista more responsive

Another question, will my PC run better or pagefile work better if I move it onto my other hdd, I have my WDC320GB HDD, this is for Windows Vista and programs, then I have my 160GB Samsung IDE drive, this is for storage, and one partition of 6GB that can be for possible pagefile usage, would it be ok to move the pagefile to this partition and will it have any benefits.

Currently the pagefile size is:
16mb minimum
3067mb Recommended
2345mb Currently allocated

Would it be best to change the currently allocated to 5000mb and minimum of 1024mb?

willhub · 5 Sep 2007 at 12:45

So moving it onto a different HDD will just cause problems?

willhub · 5 Sep 2007 at 14:56

Sp00n said:
Move the page file on to a separate hard drive if you have one, otherwise leave it where it is as it won't make a difference moving it to a different partition.

I always set page files to 1.5* the amount of ram for both minimum and max.

Yea, I meant, moving it to one of my partitions on my other 160GB IDE hdd.

I have 2gb of ram, so what should I set it to? the same as it was before?:
16mb minimum
3067mb Recommended
2345mb Currently allocated

Or something bigger?