in vistas system info screen it tells me i got 512 ram when i have 1gig installed any help would be great.

I have the links but clicking on them dows absolutely nothing at all. Colin

A question for whomever understands Vista's memory subsystem: Is it possible that performance would increase for any particular workload is swap is disabled? A workload I have in mind is of a user who runs a program which uses a large amount of memory to perform its own agressive caching (independent of Windows's file cache) of its own data files, with the result that Windows decides to swap...

I have my hard drive partitioned with Windows XP and program files only on the C: partition. My docs, music and temp files all have their own partitions. I want to install Vista RC 1. What problems am I likely to encounter? I am aware of software compatibility issues but am more concerned with how to get both OS's running on the one computer.

Running Vista build 5536 on an Athlon 64, even when (for whatever reason) my CPU usage is pegged at 100%, the Reliability and Performance Monitor reports that the CPU is running at 50% Maximum Frequency. On Win XP on the same system, AMD's dashboard software shows that that during heavy CPU usage, the processor runs at full speed, and at all other times runs at half speed. But the dashboard...

hi can amy1 tell me why in system info in fista tells me i got 512mb ran when i have 1gig installed any help would be great

what sort of flash drive do i need to use readyboost, because i know Windows can only use fast flash memory to speed up your computer. what does the speed of the flash drive have to be.

nero 6 won't let me create a bootable dvd. it tells me that the file is too large for an iso file. any tips on how to write a bootable DVD from the downloaded .iso file???

Is there a way to move the Quick Launch Bar to the left side. Not the whole Task Bar just the Quick Launch Bar. I have always been able to do this prior releases of Windows.

Vista RC1 - When launching Task manager it constantly shows 40%-60% CPU load, even when no other application is running. System (NT kernel & System) process takes around 10%, svchost takes 20%-30% and System Idle process is around 50% (this one takes no less then 97% on my XP, same hardware). Is this normal? TIA

I have a problem with the activation of MS Office 2007 Beta in Vista CR1. When I try to activate MS Office 2007 the following error message keeps coming up: "A communication error has occurred. Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again in a few minutes". I had no difficulty activating Office 2007 in Vista Beta or Windows XP. Can anyone help?

When I try to connect to many webpages, they just will not display, I can refresh til the cows come home. If I get to a webpage works fine but does vista have a problem with Linkage or particular types of webpages?

Been fooling around trying to create a gadget for the sidebar to display network activity. In previous versions of windows where WMI was available I would query Win32_PerfFormattedData_TCPIP_NetworkInterface but this seems to be unavailable in RC1. Has it been renamed or removed? Specifically I am looking for BytesSentPersec and BytesReceivedPersec. Any ideas? or did I just not look hard...

Despite all nice ideas in here I just want to bring something up that could cause this behaviour. RAM. If your memory is full, Windows will start paging inactive areas of the RAM onto the harddrive to free up some space in the ram modules, thus creating a lot of harddrive activity. I know that Vista got 8 times more (yes 8 times!) RAM requirement than it's predecessor Windows XP (min....

Hi All, I am not sure if Im hitting the correct newsgroup. I have some questions regarding Windows Performance monitors like CPU monitor, disk monitor etc.. I googled for the appropriate news group but could not get any which is more relevant than this. Kindly tell me if there is any other forum to discuss issues with " Windows Performance Monitors " OR this is the right place. Thanks in...

I have 3 gigs of ram installed and my bios registers all physical ram, but vista only recognizes 2 gigs

it is a first gen p4 1.4GHZ 256 cache 256MB rambus mem 4MB s3 nitro 20GB eide hdd abit th7 raid motherboard

the machine is a first gen p4 the full specs are pentium 4 1.4 ghz 256mb of rambus mem 20gb eide drive win xp pro 4 mb s3 pci video card it is pretty fast with xp but my video card is what scares me will it run vista without blowing up the card help please

I have 2 sata western digital hard drives using intel's raid. in xp I could load intel matrix manager and have more control over the raid. but in vista I don't show that option and if I right click in device manager on the hard drives, I see 2 check boxes that will allow for advanced write back cache option, but it shows my hard drives don't support that. What hard drives do support it...

I have been running RC1 for 4 days now and overall, really like it. One problem that I have run in to, however, is getting WinX DVD Ripper to run. I get an error message about a .dll file missing so downloaded the file but when I went to save it in my windows/system directory, it won't save as it says it must have administrator permission. Well I am the administrator and I want anything that...