Is 512 MB RAM enough for all the WinXP junk?

[Qiranworms]

When I bought my laptop, I figured that 256 MB RAM is the standard, and that 512 would be more then sufficiant. But alas, Windows XP is the most resource hogging (just like its makers :laughing: ) OS ever, and it's dependance on virtual RAM is far too much for confort. Even when I cut down on running services (as well as enabled ones altogether...some of them are just junk), I still have most of my RAM filled up as well as a heavy page file of at least 200 MB dragging down my system performance.

Do we really need a minimum 768 RAM today, or is there something wrong with my setup? Anybody experiencing similar issues?

 

[Ecniv]

No, I have 512 and have no such problems. Something else is eating your resources.

 

[randy]

Yeah, i have 512 and no prob too.

 

[LwdSquashman]

I have been running a XP 1600 with 256mb of PC2100 for the past couple of months and I think XP runs great. I even do my video editing with this setup. I record the nascar races and burn them to a VCD to playback on my console DVD player.

 

[þÄ®âÐÖx]

512 is plenty, especially if it's decent DDR. If you're lucky, you can even get away with 128mb in XP, but only if you don't do much gaming or multitasking. I had my server (PII 350) running XP at a decent speed with 128mb of generic PC100 SDRAM for quite some time, but I've recently switched it back to Win2k since it doesn't seem quite as memory hungry.

 

[CrashAbbott]

I agree too ,, 512 should be plenty,,I have a PII 400 with 384 mb of PC100 running XP pro without issue,, antivirus, games, movies , etc...

I also have a laptop with 512 mb, and run instances, movies, monitors, antivirus, lotus,Illustrator, without hesitation,,

Must be something else??

 

[Qiranworms]

You're probably all right...next time I do a cleanup (backup documents, then reformat) I'll have to install programs one by one, and see which is eating up my resources. Maybe StyleXP, but I didn't think that it took a lot of resources. hmm...

 

[mrdinkel]

I'm running XP Home, the update, on 191 MB of RAM, with a HD about to take a crap, and a 500 Mhz. Celeron, and it runs decent. w/ that much ram, it doesn't quite add up.

 

[mrdinkel]

doesn't it just use the local theme application DLL?

 

[Smith]

Style XP doesn't hog your resources, but if you want to get by without it, download the uxtheme.dll patch. Instructions can be found from posted link:

http://www.lightstar1.com/install.htm

:beard: