"Deco1" wrote in message
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I do agree with other postings that vista is very hungry when it comes
to memory and hard drive usage. I would suggest you download a memory
manager ( there are loads of free ones on the web), and this will tell
you your Ram usage at any given time.

I recommend /never/ using a so-called "memory manager". First of all,
Windows always will try to use as much memory as it can. When you have
sufficient RAM (and 2G is good enough for many uses), if you see in some
report (such as Task Manager) that you have very little "free" memory, that
is a /good/ thing. If some utility creates actual free memory, it robs
Windows of its ability to use memory efficiently. See:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

for an excellent description of how Windows uses memory.

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