Recent content by garigolleo

Microsoft appears to be listening to these minimalist pleas, at least when it comes to assigning an official name to Windows 7, the successor to Vista that's slated for release sometime in late 2009. In a Link Removed - Invalid URL, Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows Product...

That defeats the purpose of enjoying a beta os and experimenting with it to its full potential. I remember running windows 3.1 as soon as it came out to stores and loved the first touch of the diskette and look of the welcome screen. If you really want to get on your knees and get dirty...

Thanks for the reply. I don't know why Windows will "grab" additional ram for video unless it needs it for aero? But I wonder if other video cards will have the same issue for example nvidia. But anyway I just turned off superfetch and that freed up what was cached ram. I have no...

I did a warm boot into windows and captured some ram specs and process specs. Hopes this helps to determine and compare why it may use more ram. Also I found out that windows will grab system ram for video ram pushup. I have 512 ddr3 on video board. Windows vista 32 and 64 did the same thing...

Couldn't agree with u more. Its utilizing your ram via superfetch for next process/app execute. also the original poster had other apps running and then asking why is it using all my ram?? hmmmm. reboot and let the os idle then check ram usage. also vista and w7 will use ram for video card...