Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory.

Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

And that is exactly the point that many people do not seem to understand. They always want to "save" RAM for a rainy day.

whs said:

Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

And that is exactly the point that many people do not seem to understand. They always want to "save" RAM for a rainy day.

You would have loved the guy I saw on another forum a while ago that complained about the "extra" ram usage in Vista (and now by extension 7), and how the "extra" usage would cause the computer to use more electricity.

"registering with XPnet and then installing the DMS Clarity Tracker Agent "

I think this might be part of the problem as well

I have a friend with 512mb of ram and when I fixed his comp, I brought the ram used from 600mb(!) to 200mb

This is what i uninstalled or stopped from running at startup
Google Toolbar
Yahoo Toolbar
Msn messenger
Yahoo Messenger
Adobe Updater
Google Updater
Yahoo Updater
Itunes updater
Quicktime updater

... I cant remember the rest... he didn't know most of them were even on the computer.

stormy13 said:

whs said:

Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

And that is exactly the point that many people do not seem to understand. They always want to "save" RAM for a rainy day.

You would have loved the guy I saw on another forum a while ago that complained about the "extra" ram usage in Vista (and now by extension 7), and how the "extra" usage would cause the computer to use more electricity.

I am running Windows 7 x64 with 8GB of ram and I never even came close to maxing it out. Even when I had 3GB using X32.

I have never seen 7 use more than around 30% of my installed memory (8GB, currently).

SuperFetch, by default, caches programs the OS determines the user may use.

The article is pure FUD, and has no place in a responsible publication.

madtownidiot said:

I would rather have more of the memory utilized, as it would mean fewer read/writes on the HDD, making my laptop less likely to freeze when it's bumped or moved.

That's backwards once useage is past a certain point. Opening new programs with high memory utilization already occuring will require more memory INCREASING HDD useage as the system has to resort to the swap files to meet memory requirements.

baarod said:

Agree, smells like FUD. Is Apple planning a new PC ad and astroturfing again?

Naah - Not Apple. These are the same XPnet guys who have been steadily ripping Vista and 7 all along with a rather long series of "studys" with varying degrees of Dubiousness.