I have played with my pagefile to see what gives me better results.
By default and now, it is 768 but ive also tried the maximum allowed by the system and the system managed option.
The only thing that seems to help is when i delete my zonelabs security suite (vsmon.exe can take a lot of memory-15MB to 50MB) or disable all startup items and all but the windows services. When i disable the services, i continuously get shutdown errors.
Firefy seems to enjoy using up to 34MB, explorer takes 29MB, svchost likes 25MB (and its known by others to take just 18MB), and vsmon.exe (currently 23MB), MSN messenger once and a while takes over 20MB.
I know that these figures are overwhelming. I just wish I could finally have a laptop which meets the expectations that it should deliver. My laptop is supposed to be built for high performance!!!!!!!