Re: Total memory used

From: Tom (noway_at_nothere.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:02:15 -0400

"D." <d@no_usenet_email..org> wrote in message
news:2e30d0dsds6leqnoldm2euu7br6meru80i@4ax.com...
> Does Windows XP use more physical memory to load stuff in at boot up,
> if it sees it has some extra memory to mess with?
>
> I ask, because I have 1 gig of RAM, but I see 400 MBs are used at
> boot.
> Total Physical memory = 1024 MB
> Available Physical memory = 621.16 MB
> (that is a reading with something running).
>
> Now, since I know that a computer can run XP on even as low an amount
> of RAM as 128 MBs, then these programs & Windows must be seeing extra
> RAM & using it, as opposed to lower memory systems maybe using more
> "virtual memory"? Or how is the memory issue handled?

400megs is quite a lot, I would check your startup and see what is being
allocated to programs when you finish loading Windows.

Clcik Start/Run, then type

msconfig

Then under the startup tab, see how many items are loading up. There may be
quite a few that you really do not need loading up, and you can remove them
from doing so from there, by selecting the the "selective startup" radio
button, then making the changes (unchecking the items) there. Reboot, and
then when you get a prompt that you made changes, just check the box at the
bottom left of that prompt as to not get that message in the future.

But being you have this much RAM, I don't see it as an issue for now, unless
you really start loading up other thing that dwindle your resources down.

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