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stlflmmkr   12-09-2007 at 01:36:50 AM

I understand why Vista uses up every MB of RAM. I have 4GB and when I look at whats being used theres over 3.5gb thats cached and less than 100MB free. I know Vista loads up everything in RAM so it can try to use the harddrive as less as possible. Is there a way to trick Vista into thinking I have less RAM than I do so I have more free or some setting that will make vista use less. Also if I open a game or some other RAM intensive program is the RAM cleared out so I have more free RAM. I turned off alot of services that I dont need but that didnt help. I just want to know that Im using as much RAM as I can when playing a game or using photoshop.

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Scotteq   12-09-2007 at 02:20:05 AM
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Active applications receive RAM normally: Vista gives it up just the same as if it were empty. You aren't losing any performance by the memory being used or not.

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dmroeder   12-09-2007 at 05:18:00 AM
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Why on earth would you buy 4 gigs of RAM and not want it to be used?

If you don't want the RAM to be used, then remove it, otherwise, let windows do it's thing.

I suggest you print out this and next time you need to take a dump, read it.

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fordy9   12-13-2007 at 07:22:01 AM
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I don't think he wants his RAM not to be used, he just doesnt want Vista to hog a large amount so that he has as much as possible available for games and photoshop. I dont really have an answer, although it looks like Scotteq might ^

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