86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory

You definitely don't need any more memory. What are the memory eating processes that are running?

A different perspective on the "problem" and a bunch of discussion:

http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=526712061-9530248017eb3b8e94ee8ff1ef6aaa99-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5

Toddo97 said:

You definitely don't need any more memory. What are the memory eating processes that are running?

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Usually a bunch of IE windos (eg Gmail, TCA, AVS, etc) and WinAmp.

Mike

I take it you didn't read any of the discussion over at Slashdot? It's a feature, not a bug. The memory is being used for Hard Disk caching and is released if it's needed. It's not really in "use", nor does it lead to swap usage. Linux does the same thing, except it still considers the memory "free". The morons who wrote the original article at Computerworld should have their PC's confiscated for writing such a misleading piece of **** article.

Toddo97 said:

What are the memory eating processes that are running?

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It's likely that no process is eating his memory. This is because the article was written by people who have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Windows 7 does and would rather write a sensationalized article than do a little research.

It's true. The feature is called superfetch. Instead of wasting all free memory resources like XP did, Vista and 7 preload as many applications as possible in the background to make the system feel more responsive. After Vista SP1 it waits a little while after booting up to start so as to reduce hard drive thrashing and unresponsiveness right at first. If a system process needs the memory it can be freed up instantly.

It astounds me that experienced industry journalists failed to understand this as far back as the original Vista launch.

If I had 6Meg I'd be more concerned if Windows wasn't using it.:saywhat:

obie_fl said:

If I had 6Meg I'd be more concerned if Windows wasn't using it.:saywhat:

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If you had 6MB RAM you'd have a hard time running Windows 7...:fryingpan:

FWIW, the guy who wrote the article got canned from the site that published it. It turns out he was someone else writing under a pen name, and had some conflict of interest amongst being totally misinformed. link

Yeah, the whole thing is very interesting and goes to show how fake a lot of these types of sites are.

The TRS-80, my first computer.
Yes, that is a tape (cassette) drive.
http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html

Mike the Timex/Sinclair ZX-81 was my first desktop computer. I bought one and took it to work. Did a few programs on it that were easier to do than on the mainframe computer at the time. I had the tape drive as well to backup the programs. The 16KB expansion RAM pack was cool, but I built one myself.

The funny thing is that I am playing with microcontrollers today for fun and remind me alot of that computer! :huge:

Mike_TX said:

Our first home computer was the IBM "portable" (also known as luggable).

I believe it had a 9" amber CRT screen.

I think my parents still have it.
We added joysticks (needed some mod to connect) and (I think) 640K of RAM which was a crazy amount at the time...

Mike

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My dad not only got the 640K upgrade for that beast. He also replaced one of the floppies with a 10MB hard disk. I brought it to high school for independent study because it ran laps around the Apple IIs.

sandtrap said:

My dad not only got the 640K upgrade for that beast. He also replaced one of the floppies with a 10MB hard disk. I brought it to high school for independent study because it ran laps around the Apple IIs.

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That sounds vaguely familiar.
We may have done the same thing.
10MB sounded crazy big at the time.

Mike

Amateures. I had a TRS80 and I liked it. I STILL have my TRS80 with cassette tape drive Programming thousands of lines of basic just to play space invaders really, really slowly rocked.

Mike_TX said:

Usually a bunch of IE windos (eg Gmail, TCA, AVS, etc) and WinAmp.

Mike

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You still use IE and you wonder why your computer seems slower??!