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Windows and it's envoirnment

  • 27-05-2007 11:04pm
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    First off ,I don't work in IT ,so take my post with a pinch of salt.
    I was wondering though ,
    I've read in a couple of reviews ,people almost complain about the resources vista uses.
    And I was thinking ,does a cpu not operate better when reading directly from memory ? ,I would have thought it only helps to speed up the reading process ,and leaves the bus free for writing only.

    Is this the way vista is operating ?


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    Yes , thats exactly what Vista is doing , XP just left the memory there doing nothing , there are many articles on the Web about why its better to use the available memory instead of leaving it idle ,

    however people seem to think that having 80% of memory free ( doing nothing ) was a good thing and see Vista making use of it a bad thing ,

    Its not of course , I find it loads a lot of programs that I use a lot quicker than XP ever did , in particular photoshop !

    This explains it very well , and also points to a situation ( gaming ) where it fell down , but that'll be fixed in the service pack I'd imagine.

    To quote from the link , "unused memory is wasted memory "

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html


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    Good stuff mathias ,I bought 2GB of ram for my laptop last month . And I couldn't for the life of me ,understand why it wasn't being utilised by xp.

    I think a copy of vista is on the cards for the lappie aswell:)

    It doesn't seem to be the hound dog I thought it was going to be ,it's actually enjoyable using it. Genuinely happy with it.

    Thanks for the advice on all the stuff in the last few weeks mathias ,much appreciated.


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