dom wrote:
2) System specs. It's natural that as time goes on, our PCs perform better. If you're upgrading your desktop, chances are it doesn't meet the minimum requirement. According to my ram gadget, I idle using just under 1gb of ram. If you have only 1gb or less, and are playing games like WoW, CS : S, BF2, etc. it's normal that your suffer performance problems.
I've seen several modern (e.g., core 2 duo / 2 GB RAM) desktops and laptops that have had issues with Vista. There are two brand new laptops here at my office that have core 2 duo with 2 GB and they have problems with Vista crashing too often. They also have issues (known issue to Microsoft - requires registry hack) with saving files to a network share, claiming the parent folder doesn't exist when it in fact does.
It's just insane to me that an OS boots up to the desktop and idles at just under 1 GB of ram used. Vista loads SO much unnecessary stuff and seems to do a LOT of caching unnecessarily. It's no wonder it uses so much memory.
Besides,
Several PC makers are offering options to "downgrade" (I say upgrade) from Vista to XP.
XP took what, 6 or 7 years to get to where it is today? Vista was (supposed to be) a complete rewrite, and Microsoft quickly pulled out a TON of big features from the OS before releasing it. There's bound to be a lot of problems.
Hmmm, at the moment i am on vista and i have 58 processes running (so im deffinetly not idle) and almost 600mb of my 2gb of ram is in use. Ok, now i just ran a program i have to clear unused ram and almost 500mb is in use. that would probably go down another 100 if i closed JUST itunes and windows live. Not sure whats using 1gb on yours dom O.o
. You can turn the thing that asks for confirmation on everything off.
