[maladeta]

Dear all,

I have just realized that the default applications when I turn on my laptop are taking 70 % of my physical memory (measured using the "Windows task administrator", it is the number that appears at the bottom right part of the Performance tab) I have 1013 MB of physical memory according to it as well.

Because of this, I have problems running big word documents that take more memory than usual. They just crash because there is not enough memory!, and also origin files that are a bit large. They keep crashing because there is not enough memory.
1 GB is more than enough I think, therefore I believe that something strange is going on in my laptop, but I cannot say what.

Could you please give a hand in this issue?

Regards

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Hello,

Can you go

*Start
*If you have the Run command present in your Start Menu Right click on it and Run as Admin
*If not please type Run in the Search field and right click Run as Admin
*In the run box type in msconfig

This will bring up the msconfig window in which you can use to see what applications and other processand services you have starting with Windows. Check under the startup Tab first and disable any that you do not need to run at startup. Also you can use MSconfig Cleanup which is a more powerful tool and shows some entries that are missing from the Windows MSconfig screen.

http://www.get-in-co...config-cleanup/

That will allow you to remove entries as well that you do not need. Then under the Services hide the Microsoft Service and disable any services you do not need. Such as things for Adobe or Zune that show up there that are not necessary at boot time.

This should hlep clean up some resources for you.

Cheers,
Mak

[Makaveli213]

Hello,

Can you go

*Start
*If you have the Run command present in your Start Menu Right click on it and Run as Admin
*If not please type Run in the Search field and right click Run as Admin
*In the run box type in msconfig

This will bring up the msconfig window in which you can use to see what applications and other processand services you have starting with Windows. Check under the startup Tab first and disable any that you do not need to run at startup. Also you can use MSconfig Cleanup which is a more powerful tool and shows some entries that are missing from the Windows MSconfig screen.

http://www.get-in-co...config-cleanup/

That will allow you to remove entries as well that you do not need. Then under the Services hide the Microsoft Service and disable any services you do not need. Such as things for Adobe or Zune that show up there that are not necessary at boot time.

This should hlep clean up some resources for you.

Cheers,
Mak

[mirjel]

U need to enlarge your virtual memory.

At Control Panel | System | Advanced, click Settings in the “Performance” Section. On the Advanced page of the result, the current total physical size of all page files that may be in existence is shown. Click Change to make settings for the Virtual memory operation. Here you can select any drive partition and set ‘Custom’ , enlarge ur virtual memory then always click Set before going on to the next partition.

Regards,

Edited by mirjel, 01 July 2008 - 02:28 AM.

[maladeta]

Hi again,

Thanks Mak, I did that.

With regard to increasing the virtual memory, i just selected Custom size. There is an initial size (for which I wrote the actual assigned size of 1313 MB) and a maximum size for which I added 700 MB more, 2013 MB). the physical part of my memory is still taken up by apprximately 80 % when I start, put at least word does not crash for the moment.
However, it takes several minutes for Vista to shut down and I am wondering if everything is related.

Thanks mirjel

Regards

[Makaveli213]

Hello,

Sounds like you are running Vista with 1GB of RAM. Is this so? If that is the case i would wonder over to http://www.crucial.com/ and see what type of RAM you have and how much you can upgrade it to. Might be of some help to get more RAM in your system. Vista runs much better with 2GB or more of RAM.

Cheers,
Mak

[mirjel]

You're welcome maladeta. I agree with Makaveli213. Adding physical memory is always the best way to improve the performance of a computer.

Regards,

[maladeta]

OK.

I will have a look

Thanks again

Maladeta

[SRX660]

The ram your using is quite normal for Vista. I have a desktop vista computer that starts out using 750-850 Mb of ram and after 5 minutes or so it drops down to 500-600Mb of ram use. I try to keep as few programs running in the background as i possibly can. That usually means 37 for the laptop and 42 for the desktop. I also have a Acer vista laptop that when i bought it it had 512 MB of ram. It was so slow starting that i immediately bought a 1 gig ram set for it. It is still slightly slow if i try using the laptop from the startup. It needs to settle in and finish the backup files before i can really use it well. I may try to find a 2 gig memory kit for the laptop to speed things up slightly. All my desktops already have 2 gig's of memory in them.

While my desktops shut down within a minute, my laptop always seems to take forever to shut down. I really dont know why but its always 2-3 minutes.

SRX660

Edited by SRX660, 01 July 2008 - 04:31 AM.

[mirjel]

Hello SRX660,

Check in task manager and services see how many things running before a shutdown, maybe its time to disable some of it.

Maybe offender is your Virus Scanner.

Have you installed Vista SP1. The new Vista SP1 sorts a lot of things out and has speeded my shutdown and restart up considerably.

Microsoft do however recommend that you hibernate the laptop rather than doing a full shutdown as this is much faster.

Have you installed any third party apps on your PC which installed services on your PC ! or may be it has been installed by default , try to disable the services you dont need from windows service manager, it will save you lots of memory and will speed up your boot up and shutdown and overall PC performance.

Best Regards,