Peter in New Zealand

"MrSlartybartfast" <MrSlartybartfast@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:31AF8955-1BC4-4DDE-9BAE-84279945E259@microsoft.com...
> You are getting your money's worth. 1GiB RAM is the minimum to run Vista
> Home Premium, any less and you would not have all the features of Windows
> Vista such as the Aero inteface.
>
> If the RAM meter was nearing 100% it would be a bad thing. Your computer
> would be running slowly, or not at all, because it does not have
> sufficient
> free memory to operate properly.
>
> You will not be using all of the RAM memory all of the time. You need to
> have the RAM memory available for when a program needs it.

Thanks for taking a moment to reply. That's reassuring for me to hear. I
have to say I am quite enjoying the "visual experience" of Vista Aero, and I
started out 'way back in the good? old Windows 3.1 days.

Looking at your "nome de post", and in view of your helpful reply, I can
only sign myself as "Arthur".

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Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.