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Re: Geez!!.. 512 mb ram on idle?!?!

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Old 03-01-2007
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Re: Geez!!.. 512 mb ram on idle?!?!
Yup. Fully agree. Vista handles memory differently than any previous version
of Windows. Does it work? Uh... yeah?

Lang

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
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> Vista is not "bloated" - it's "different". As has been discussed here
> several times before, Vista will cache a lot more OS data, DLL files, etc.
> when compared to previous versions of Windows. It will release the memory
> used by cached and preloaded components if that memory is needed by
> another program or process.
>
> So leave it as it is, it is happy and you should be too. :-)
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> "Roof Fiddler" <fiddler@roof.com> wrote in message
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>
>> And if the answer is "Vista requires at least 512MB memory, and that's
>> not negotiable," well then, wouldn't that be conclusive proof that
>> Vista's memory usage is, in fact, bloated compared to Windows 2000?

>
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