veedubfreak
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Vista uses prefetch. Prefetch makes things load faster. Unused RAM is wasted ram. So unless vista is using 4.5gb of memory when you only have 4gb of memory, there is no waste.
There is a difference between thinking that you are not infected and knowing. I know i am not infected.i have tried that already but i dont think it gave me that very good effect well 35% of 4gb is a lot of memory being hogged by vista that is more than 1gb , i dont think there is any spyware or virus coz this is only around 5 days installed.id be happy if i can see 20% or less of RAM usage in idle state.
You're right. It uses 1.3gb idle.
At least, my laptop does, with nothing running and everything disabled on startup.
I'd say go for the upgrade. XP isn't "the OS" anymore, Vista has evolved and is not the OS you complained about back when it came out. Vista is pretty good now, definitely worth the upgrade from XP (maybe not monetarily, if you're looking to BUY a copy of Vista, not worth it yet, but if you already have a copy...or *ahem* "have" a copy, then yeah, use it).