Windows processes alone use 140 MB of RAM

[markprz]

Just running Explorer and the default background processes, Windows uses nearly 140 MB of memory. Is this normal? When I add up the amount that individual processes use under Task Manager, it only comes out to a fraction of this. Do I have something misconfigured or does Windows really use such a huge amount of RAM somewhere?

 

[Arrow]

Windows by nature will hog up a lot of RAM. It'll try to take as much as it can.

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[markprz]

I understand, but on my old 350 MHz also running Win2k, Windows uses only 60 MB.

 

[Toejam31]

Some ideas that might help:

Install this program, and use it to edit the third-party programs and files that are loading during the boot:

<A HREF="http://mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml" target="_new">Startup Control Panel</A>

Then check out this page, which should give you some very helpful information about which Services can be set to manual or disabled.

<A HREF="http://www.blkviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm" target="_new">My Windows 2000 Professional Services Configuration 411</A>

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[markprz]

I already disabled just about every unneccesary process and Service starting automatically, and the thing still uses over 130 MB... I'll try the link you gave me, though. Maybe there's something I missed that just happens to suck an extra 80 megs or so.

 

[Guest]

Did you delete the programs you don't want to start up in the registry. Somtimes they still start up even though you told them not to.

Go to run: regedit

localmachine/software/microsoft/winnt/currentversion/run

And delete the srings of the programs you don't want to start up.

Good luck

 

[markprz]

Yup, only a couple of things are in both Run (current user and local machine), none which eat up much memory.

 

[blah]

As far as I have learned so far there are two kinds of Windows 2000: one is a Windows 2000 Pro, and the atha Windows 2000 Server (couple of flavors of that one). I have said this koz no body mentioning it when asking a question about "Windows eating up memory :<( "

For the Pro version it is kind of high, for the server it is normal to have between 100 and 200 hundred of megs used just for the OS.

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

 

[markprz]

Sorry, yes I am running on Pro. No way I could afford Server.

 

[jasen]

Your numbers sound fine to me. On my 2kpro box, with 512MB, windows is using 162MB (only IE is open at the time), and on my adv server box with 256MB, it's only using 114MB. And I've turned off every non-essential service on both boxes. I do have norton AV running, and UD agent (a distributed computing program, similar to SETI@home) so that drives my numbers up a bit.