Vista the resouce hog!?

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After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found
that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed
any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy
crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB
of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large
increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any
thoughts.
 
ltpyro said:
After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found
that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed
any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage.
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On my system Windows Vista beta2 takes about 450MB after a fresh
installation with the Basic interface.
 
I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running
than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes
running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got
spyware or viruses running.
Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing
what loads at startup.
 
LOL! with all the programs that came pre-installed on my XP system, it
typically has 60 processes running (760MB ram used)
Vista - 45 processes, 600MB, no functionality lost. improved performance,
except in media center.
 
You must be talking about a system loaded with cr*p from dell or hp or
something. On a fresh install of windows xp pro you should have around 18-19
processes. 60 is just rediculas.
 
hp. plus, I have hp printers (hp solution center to go with those). hp
wireless assistant (so I can turn bluetooth and wifi on and off indepentantly
of each other). then there's the widcomm bluetooth stack, the ati catalyst
control center, truecrypt for drive encryption, and all of the programs I
actually use for work (60 processes is when I'm actually using it, not when
it's sitting idle). windows vista handles all of those things, with 15 fewer
processes.
 
I'm not sure in vista, but in xp it was in add/remove programs->windows
components, and it was at the bottom of the list. (windows indexing service)

Hope this helps.

p.s. It still bogles my mind that you have 60 processes running with xp,)
 
Just like in XP. Start>Run>services.msc. After turning off the service, go to
computer,right click the drive, select properties, uncheck the box that says
"allow indexing service to index the contents of this drive etc.", select
ignore all on any information window that pops up.
 
No, it is typical of XP with a pretty standard set of programs. Office ups
the count pretty good, as do anti-malware programs, etc.
 
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