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XP Mode Memory Usage - How does it all work?
I recently purchased a new Dell Optiplex 780 64 bit machine running Windows 7 and I’m required to use XP Mode for a few older programs that I have. In the past week I created 2 new XP Mode Virtual’s, playing with the Memory Allocation, and then deleting those XP Mode VM’s. So with those Virtual Machines being deleted now, is some of that memory still allocated to them? I swear some of my memory is being used somewhere that I can’t explain, so I’m worried that my Windows 7 OS is still tying that memory to them even though I deleted the files. The way I deleted them was going to my Virtual Machines folder and deleting the one file in there and then the following 3 files where the Virtual Machine resided. I did this twice for the two previous XP Mode VM’s I deleted. Please, someone explain to me how the Memory Usage works for these XP Mode machines. Does it only use the memory when they’re up and running?