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Posted by Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schulze on June 17, 2007, 5:28 pm
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Am Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:18:17 -0400 schrieb Scott:
> There is just so much stuff running. I have 2 gig of ram which is the
> max the laptop will hold. Everything is running okay, but just at
> bootup before starting anything else Vista uses so much memory.
It's not a bug - it's a feature... :-)
SCNR
> I have 65 processes running at startup. Memory in use 567MB.
> Everything runs smooth, but on my XP desktop only 45 processes and
> only 248MB in use. 11 Instances of svchost running on Vista machine.
> Any ideas on what I can turn off.
I doubt that you can increase the performance of your system significantly
by switching off services. Vista is simply a system that is hungry for
memory. As long as you don't reach the limits of your 2 gig system, things
should be fine. If you have to run applications using loads of memory such
as Photoshop - XP might be the better choice as a OS.
What you can do is looking at tools like
http://www.xp-antispy.org/
http://vispa.whyeye.org/
Although originally developed for XP, the latest versions also work with
Vista and switch of some of the features. This might in turn save a small
amount of memory.
> One other question....Vista starts up in power mode (Power Save) and
> says this mode will reduce system performance and I always have to
> switch it to balanced mode. How can i make it startup in Balanced
> mode. I've looked but can find out how to change that setting.
Are you using Vista on a laptop that allows to switch power profiles by a
specific button? If so then you need to adjust the settings of the related
program/driver. Usually these tools allow to set different profiles for
battery/PSU-mode.
Andreas
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