Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Aardvark
But it IS going to be used - that's the problem! I can't do everything I want to at once because Vista is STILL using way too much ram! It's not like I'm using 1.7gb of my 2gb ram here - I use all of it (or as much as I can without everything starting to lag)

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Well, I don't know what you use that uses more than 1.7gb of RAM, seeing as I can multitask WoW and VS 2008 on 1gb of RAM on Vista without much lag.
Even with the Superfetch service disabled [which is stupid btw, we'll get to that soon] Vista isn't using as much memory as you think. After you've just booted you'll probably notice ~40% memory being used, but if you fill the memory and then close those programs, you'll notice it goes down to ~20-25%, as Vista paged out the stuff that it wasn't using. [You'll not be able to see this using taskman, as taskman shows all memory usage, including page].

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Also if I'm on battery power Vista really drains it fast (which is why for obvious reasons I use XP or Ubuntu when I'm on battery power, but still - I do use Vista sometimes too)

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Ubuntu drains the battery faster than Vista for me. If you set Vista to use Performance rather than Power Save, then obviously it will drain it faster. Power Save on Vista gets roughly the same as XP for me.

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Originally posted by mattisdada

It used under 1mb (Smilie). And the boot times were fantastic.

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Yes, but unfortunately DOS 1.1 didn't use 32-bit memory addresses so it couldn't address that 2 gig that Aardvark uses. [Also even DOS 2.0 had a partition limit of 10MB for FAT12...]

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I still use XP.