Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory.

dgwin7 said:

BTW *never never let any apps or anti-virus apps running in background while you are play games, any games don't need anti-virus app at all also avoid bloated.

Just my 2 cents.

dg

A valid point as long as you disconnect your machine from the outside world before you disable your protection

I have an old machine with with 2.5 Gb RAM. I use Areo, have two gadgets running along with an AV and firewall program, run Outlook, and run Firefox with tabs minimum continuously running. I have never seen my RAM useage over 60%. It is usually between 34% and 42%.

Barman58 said:

dgwin7 said:

BTW *never never let any apps or anti-virus apps running in background while you are play games, any games don't need anti-virus app at all also avoid bloated.

Just my 2 cents.

dg

A valid point as long as you disconnect your machine from the outside world before you disable your protection

And you know too often the online gamers simply forget that one!

As far as the main topic here I found a good rebuttal followup blog about the COMPUTERWORLD article.

February 18th, 2010

86% of Windows 7 PCs maxing out memory ... really?

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 8:12 am

I’ve had so many emails hit my inbox overnight about a story over on ComputerWorld citing data collected by Devil Mountain Software’s community-based XPnet claiming that some 86% of Windows 7 machines being monitored are regularly consuming 90-95% of the system RAM that I’m forced from silence to comment.

OK, let me begin by telling you why I wasn’t going to cover this story. Well, I’ll be honest with you, it’s because XPnet’s data isn’t a data source that’s on my trusted list. Collecting and correlating data is a tricky business, and there are too many mysteries surrounding how XPnet data is collected and what data is collected for me to get a clear picture of what’s going on. Those are my thought and feelings on the issue, but I encourage you to come to your own conclusions.

OK, but with that out of the way, let’s take a look at the claim.

86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM

The rest of the reluctant writer's comments can be seen at: 86% of Windows 7 PCs maxing out memory ... really? | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

whs said:

That is something I do not understand. When I walk thru the computer stores, most Win7 systems have 4GBs and more - and they all have 64bit. No way to find a 32bit system which we were looking for because a friend needed that to run a bundle of very expensive programs for her business from 32bit Vista. My win7 systems usually run around 1GB of RAM usage. So where is the problem.

i dont see why your friends programs wont run in 64 bit. which programs are they using. 64 bit windows emulates a 32 bit environment very well and the rare instances of these problems are becoming practically unheard of.

MiguelAngelXP said:

hmmm well , here's a image of my memory usage (just surfing the net)

Regards
MiguelAngelXP

it looks to me like avast is busy maybe that will explain some of it. try looking for memory leaks in your system otherwise.

I'm using about 37% of my 2 GB on my netbook. XPnet fails hard.