Pagefile, why so large despite available memory?

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I just upgraded to full 4GB memory in my machine. After bootup the
system finds 3.3 GB, and I understand what is happening here. With
very little else running, I have 2.4 GB physical RAM available.
However, the pagefile (commit charge) is still 780 MB. Wondering why
windows is leaving the physical memory available and using pagefile
instead? Please enlighten. Thanks.

Pradip
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