Aero and 1 gig

in my laptop which runs on 32bit Intel duo core and 512mb DDR 667Mhz FSB
memory Aero wasnt working. I later upgraded my memory to 1 gb, this also
doesnt bring the aero, later I reinstalled Vista Home Premium. Which brought
up the Aero and answered lot of issues like USB device problems and such.
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Sandeep Thoppil


"Asky" wrote:

>
> 4GB not enuf???
> Certainly seems like something is going wrong.
> You mite as well start looking for tweaks that disable the pagefile and
> make sure vista *actually uses* the 4GB RAM.
> I will post here if i find one.
>
>
> --
> Asky
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3Ghz(333 X 9) | Asus P5B | 1GB Kingston Value
> DDR2 667 | Sapphire X1900GT | Samsung 940BW | Mushkin XP-650 PSU |XBOX
> 360 Controller | Vista Ultimate X64 |
>

I'm using Aero at this very moment with 512 megs and have 160 megs free. The setup program even turned on all the bells and whistles despite my ancient GeForce MX440 with 64megs. So I don't think that's what's hogging memory and making your systems slower.

Turning off restore points, background defrag and indexing on drive C: seemed to make this PC about twice as fast though. :|

well Asky, i do not know. My Vista uses around1,1 GB, BUT i gave the pagefile between 250 mb And 2500 mb, so it could expand by itself.

Since i have 4 gig i thought that Vista would not expand the pagefile, but Vista takes more then 2000 mb, so?

The machine is fast, but there are faster machines i am sure.

If ever you know a way to get around this, please let me know.

thanks,

François

@Sandeep
Do you have an Aero campatible graphics card? If it is maybe you should update the drivers.

Yes Clark, i know pagefile uses "normally" disk space, but with the 4 gb memory i try to avoid using this disk space, so only use memory.

I will put 0 mb in the pagefile and see what happens.

Thanks,

François

Well, so far so good. No pagfile, computer is noticable faster, easier so it seems.

Now instead of using 1,15 gb memory it indicates 1,65 gb. I will leave it like this for the moment.

François

You guys must understand that unlike xp and its predecessors, Vista does use whatever you put into it. The more mem .. the more it will use... The more cache it will store... And rightfully enough.. Specially if you are running superfetch and others.

I have 4gb ram at the beginning of the installation it used about 50% of it.. just to be there... after a while (a few days and i guess this is superfetch tuning) it dropped to 26% as it is now. Depending on the frequency of certain programs.

When i tend to start a game frequently like bf2.. Mem usage will drop significantly.. If i start loading up pretty much Flash, photoshop and other huge programs.. Mem consumption will go through the roof.

So this is system (ultimate at least) is far better than xp in memory usage....

If i had the $ i would pour in 8gb on the system as i see it uses it all... I woudn't however disable pagefile as For some reason it makes the system slower... Maybe buy a 4gb stick drive to use it solely for pagefile would be an improvement.

As said computer works well with 4 gb memory and NO pagefile, however the system still indicates that i should use 6141 mb, strange.

François

Aero is running no problem on the P3 1GHz with 1GB RDRAM that I have with a static 1534MB Pagefile on D: and a static 200MB pagefile on C:

GG

My system specs below on signature. I am using 35.9% of memory at idle. Hope that helps.