Vista Ultimate Memory Usage

Yeah I finally just now did. It is quite amazing indeed. But, also I was running a lot a lot of stuff that I really did not need to for one reason or another. Such as webcam software, clipboard, hard drive temp, among others. After culling stuff out I am much more comfortable than I was before. There is always such a thing as too much and I was exceding that I believe.

I didn't realise that Superfetch did as much as it did and it kinda puts paid to the saying 'I'm using too much RAM' as thats whats it's designed to do. (use your RAM that is)

I dug up some stuff yet. Bonjour for Itunes (sharing songs which I do not do), using Iolo's System Mechcanic which takes a good junk of ram to watch over your system all the time, and I probably can do better with a single non resident program, I was also using Unix on the Vista side which I rarely use except for the text editor again which though I might miss I don't really need it. Oh yeah and what is that Powershell I believe, which I tried once and did not really care for it that much. Gee, it's amazing what you can find that one is running that you do not really need to be running. I am probably going to dump Quicktime also provided, that Itunes will run without it. Now that one might be a challenge.

Explore the features: SuperFetch

Originally Posted by lorenkjr

Why does Vista Ultimate take up so much memory? Looking at my situation it does.

Vista Ultimate fully loaded with all my good stuff in memory.

Roboform
Sticker
Speedfan
Logitech Keyboard
Dap
Avast
Impulse
Onenote
Yamicsoft Free memory
and of course themes by Stardock

Same stuff loaded with Windows 7.

Difference is Vista around 2200 megs memory

Windows 7 around 2800 to 2900 meg's free
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I have disabled quite a few things but, since I run a Windows Mac network it's not going to be possible to disable everything that I can think of. But, the difference is quite a bit in my mind, and I would think there should be a way to close the gap somewhat.

It used to keep me worried much too. Superfetch caches certain data for the OS and the installed programs to make their loading and operation faster. The more software is installed, the more time it takes to cache on system's start. Vista's superfetch works so that it uses all ram available. This is not to worry because as an application requires free memory a part of ram gets released of some cached data.

For me the most inconvenient with the Vista's superfetch was my hard drive beint busy for a while when I logged to my account. The best solution for me was having the superfetch service permanently disabled and enabling it manually when I needed it (as in a case of frequent opening and closing of applications):

Control Panel > Classic View > Administrative > Services > Superfetch Properties


Other options are :

1 Enable SuperFetch for boot files only;

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
“EnablePrefetcher”=dword:00000003
“EnableSuperfetch”=dword:00000001

2 Enable SuperFetch for programs only;

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
“EnablePrefetcher”=dword:00000003
“EnableSuperfetch”=dword:00000002

3 Enable SuperFetch for both boot files and programs

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
“EnablePrefetcher”=dword:00000003
“EnableSuperfetch”=dword:00000003

Copy to notepad, save as .reg. But I DO recommend this :

Originally Posted by me

For me the most inconvenient with the Vista's superfetch was my hard drive beint busy for a while when I logged to my account. The best solution for me was having the superfetch service permanently disabled and enabling it manually when I needed it (as in a case of frequent opening and closing of applications):

Control Panel > Classic View > Administrative > Services > Superfetch Properties