Vista eats RAM and performs extremely slow

I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and in
2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
point also did not help.
That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
Could any one propose something?
Thanks!

Have you done a disk clean up lately, deleted any backed up System Restore
Points?
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"jarry" <> wrote in message
news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
>I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
> but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
> in
> 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
> file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
> I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
> nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
> point also did not help.
> That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
> Could any one propose something?
> Thanks!

There was only one system restore point and I used that for backup, but that
had no effect. I turned off Superfetch, but also no effect. In 5 minutes
after loading vista eats 1.7Gb and extremely slow.


"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:

> Have you done a disk clean up lately, deleted any backed up System Restore
> Points?
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "jarry" <> wrote in message
> news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
> >I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
> > but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
> > in
> > 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
> > file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
> > I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
> > nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
> > point also did not help.
> > That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
> > Could any one propose something?
> > Thanks!
>
>
>

1gb RAM is not enough for Vista. You will benefit greatly by doubling the
RAM..

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"jarry" <> wrote in message
news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
>I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
> but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
> in
> 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
> file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
> I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
> nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
> point also did not help.
> That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
> Could any one propose something?
> Thanks!

>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "jarry" <> wrote in message
>> news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
>> >I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
>> > but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
>> > in
>> > 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
>> > file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
>> > I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
>> > nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
>> > point also did not help.
>> > That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
>> > Could any one propose something?
>> > Thanks!
>>
Add 1 gig more memory for a total of 2 gig. Windows uses memory to
make its own version of an L2 cache. That means that it caches
harddrive locations of files to make retrieving them faster. You
cannot turn this off and it eats memory like it is going out of style.
MS thinks that free memory is wasted memory/money.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:07:21 GMT, f/fgeorge <>
wrote:

>>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>>> "jarry" <> wrote in message
>>> news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
>>> >I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
>>> > but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
>>> > in
>>> > 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
>>> > file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
>>> > I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
>>> > nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
>>> > point also did not help.
>>> > That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
>>> > Could any one propose something?
>>> > Thanks!
>>>
>Add 1 gig more memory for a total of 2 gig. Windows uses memory to
>make its own version of an L2 cache. That means that it caches
>harddrive locations of files to make retrieving them faster. You
>cannot turn this off and it eats memory like it is going out of style.
>MS thinks that free memory is wasted memory/money.
Sorry forgot to say that Vista will release memory as programs load so
that is not an issue. Just up the memory to 2 gig and you will be much
happier.

Dear Mike Hall,
I have read some posts there users reported that 1Gb RAM was enougth for
them , and my laptop worked much better last days, so I conclude that there
is some bug... since that time I changed nothing, probably, win.updates were
downloaded...


"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:

> 1gb RAM is not enough for Vista. You will benefit greatly by doubling the
> RAM..
>
> --
> Mike Hall - MVP
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx
> Posting Productively.. http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
>
> "jarry" <> wrote in message
> news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
> >I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
> > but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
> > in
> > 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
> > file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
> > I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
> > nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
> > point also did not help.
> > That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
> > Could any one propose something?
> > Thanks!
>
>

Could it be a troyan, who is siting on process level and eating memory? I
scanned comp with ad-aware2007 but found nothing, that is why I think it
operates on process level. I consed behaviour of my vista to be really
unnormal, because 2 day ago it was ok for win.vista to have 1Gb RAM.
Thanks for reply!


"f/fgeorge" wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:07:21 GMT, f/fgeorge <>
> wrote:
>
> >>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> >>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> >>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> >>> "jarry" <> wrote in message
> >>> news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
> >>> >I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
> >>> > but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
> >>> > in
> >>> > 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
> >>> > file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
> >>> > I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
> >>> > nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
> >>> > point also did not help.
> >>> > That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
> >>> > Could any one propose something?
> >>> > Thanks!
> >>>
> >Add 1 gig more memory for a total of 2 gig. Windows uses memory to
> >make its own version of an L2 cache. That means that it caches
> >harddrive locations of files to make retrieving them faster. You
> >cannot turn this off and it eats memory like it is going out of style.
> >MS thinks that free memory is wasted memory/money.
> Sorry forgot to say that Vista will release memory as programs load so
> that is not an issue. Just up the memory to 2 gig and you will be much
> happier.
>

Performance of Vista relies on the amount and speed of RAM, speed of CPU
(NOT necessarily MHz/GHz. A new 1.6 GHz Intel Core CPU blows away an old 2.4
GHz Celeron CPU), speed of video card if using Aero 3D, and speed of hard
drive (RPMs, cache, seek/access time, etc).

1 Gig of RAM is a bit low for Vista. Vista works better with 2 Gigs of RAM
or more.

Vista will load a lot of things into memory for caching purposes. It is
perfectly normal for it to try to consume an entire gig of RAM just caching
things.


"jarry" <> wrote in message
news:3CAAE537-13EF-4C00-8999-...
>I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
> but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and
> in
> 2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
> file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
> I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
> nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
> point also did not help.
> That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
> Could any one propose something?
> Thanks!

jarry;520891 Wrote:
> Could it be a troyan, who is siting on process level and eating memory?
> I scanned comp with ad-aware2007 but found nothing, that is why I think
> it operates on process level. I consed behaviour of my vista to be
> really unnormal, because 2 day ago it was ok for win.vista to have 1Gb
> RAM.
> Thanks for reply!


Trying to run Vista on 1GB RAM is like trying to run XP on 256MB, It
works. Just barely!


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