memory usage

I did a clean install of windows 7 yesterday, and before I had even started installing programs I noticed my system was sluggish. After loading up on my programs and getting my documents in place, it has been basically unusable without tweaking in ways I'd rather not stick to. I've run a...

Hi, I'm having this issue since I moved to W2008 R2 64 bits. I was using W2008 X64 before and it worked absolutely fine. As I'm using W7 X86 on my notebook since it was available on the MSDN website as a RTM version, I thought I would like to have a homogeneous working environment so decided to...

Hi, I installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit (not the beta or the RC) on my Shuttle XPC Quad Q6600 with Intel G33/G31 chipset with the Intel driver for the win7 RC (version 8.15.10.1912). There are some issues... Mainly when waking up from sleep (garbled display, incomplete graphics, windows in...

I've setup a custom slideshow for my background and I have a multi monitor setup. Is there a way to randomize the background on each monitor? I've found a program to do that 'Wallpaper Manager' but it uses a lot of memory. Any suggestions are appreciated. Relt80

Hi, This is my first post here so please bear with me. My PC auto updated to iTunes 9.01 this morning. Now it won't start at all. I can see the process using 2% of cpu and 33mb of RAM but it's just giving me the application GUI. I am running Windows 7 64bit. any tips? Thanks

Over the past six months I"ve had a chance to try most all the company security suites. Here's my opinion. ON a windows 7 duo core machine with 2 gb of memory: Norton 2010: Excellent graphics with the 3d doesn't take up any memory doing scans installs real fast. An excellent program...

EA Games/DICE have released a new Link Removed - Invalid URL for Battlefield 2. The patch contains a large amount of new content, gameplay tweaks and bug fixes. Most significantly, the patch includes: improved Vista support, proper widescreen support, a new map called Operation Blue Pearl, the...

I have an Intel quad core desktop and i installed the RTM from MSDN on here and the multitasking is insanely slow. My pc basically locks up while doing a lot of activities but my memory usage never breaks about half of what i have (4gb) and the CPU is never stressed more than 35%, what could be...

I just bought a new computer a few days ago. This computer was loaded with Vista originally, and while I had Vista for the FEW days I had it (I had to get off!) I noticed that the CPU was constantly being used in a process called SearchIndexer.exe. My laptop's activity light was constantly...

I want to go back to Vista Home Premium x64! Windows 7 disappointed me and actually gave me a harder time than Vista did when I moved from XP to Vista. \ I checked an instructions document out about how to rollback to Vista from an upgrade to Windows 7. By using the windows.old folder located...

hi there i am installing windows seven 64 bit and i had 8 GB of ram installed the os reads them well ----> it shows 8 Gb of ram but when doing a heavy processes like rendering in 3ds max it only use 3 Gb of ram and the rest acts like free ram space --------> i know that from the...

Dual boot - Windows 7 RC1 7100 64bit / Vista Ultimate 64bit / USB2 External Drives I'm posting this problem history for the benefit of others who may be having the same or similar problem. I have several 500GB USB2 external drives that store seldom used image and video files. I opened a...

Recently I had been having problems with Vista using too much memory. Specifically such as start5ing IE8 when I had 2.5 gig's. memory free, only to find a short while later having say only 1.7 gig's free. Culled out a lot programs that I either was using or taking full advantage of and that...

Ok, so i'm having the problem of some programs taking forever to install. I.e I started the install of power dvd, it took like 7min to pop up the window to say Next.\ I installed the 1.2patch of CoD W@W and it took a while, and used 500MB of ram. Thats crazy? or am i just being stupid...

Hello! First time poster here =) I have read in many places that people are having problems with their audiodg.exe CPU usage, sadly this is not the case with me. My Audiodg.exe process is currently using 2,786,070 kB (not just normal bytes, kilobytes) of Ram. 2.66gb+ of Ram! I have...

I'm running: Windows 7 RC 7100 64 Bit EVGA x58 SLI Motherboard Intel i7 920 @ 2.6Ghz (Stock) 6GB OCZ DD3 1600 @ stock timings BFGTech NVidia GTX275 @ Stock Clock SATA 750GB HD, forgot brand SB XFI Fatality Sound Card Antec True Power 2.0 PSU @ 530 Watts, 36 Amp Max 12v1 + 12v2. Now...

before windows 7 i had vista and the game crossfire and combat arms work perfectly and now i upgraded to windows 7, crossfire won't work and combat arms works.. combat arms graphics are a lot more better so it uses more memory than crossfire.. what should i do? update video driver or...

I have seen a 10% increase in RAM usage by turning on this feature. I wrote about it here when I first noticed it. Link Removed I now have it norrowed down to this process. I use it all the time to stream everything (all media) to my HDTV through my Xbox360. I noticed it when I first installed...

I have been using Windows 7 RC for a week now. Today the 13th of May I was using Windows 7 as usual, I had Windows Live Messenger in the background and Mozilla Firefox 3.5b4 that I had installed recently. I decided to hear some music, and opened Windows Media Player. I chose the music to play...

Got rid of AVG and installed trend Micro. Memory usage dropped like a brick and trend is picking up malware. Ahhh:) its good to have a firewall again. To install go into widows 7 maintenance and say you need a firewall gives the choices kaspersky, avg, trend ect.