Hello Georgiaboy,

It depends on what applications you use and how many at the same time. The average RAM usage should be up to 2GB I guess.

Cheers...

Hi Georgiaboy, could you post a screenshot of your task manager(performance tab) using snipping tool?

Hello Georgiaboy83, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It's pretty much the same way as here to post a screenshot.

How to Post a Screenshot in Seven Forums - Windows 7 Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

That looks pretty normal to me. Vista has a feature called Superfetch that will automatically preload your RAM with data that it thinks you will need next in an attempt to help speed up running of your applications and proceses in Vista. It will learn your habbits and adjust as needed on what to preload. If the data was not needed, then it will automatically dump it to add something else as needed.

As the saying goes "Unused memory is wasted memory".

Hope this helps,
Shawn

As brink mentioned, that is normal usage with 4GB. Especially with 82 processes running.

82 is a few more than normal usage, but it also depends on what all you have open and running to at the time.

Eating your hard drive, dissappearing ??, may be System Restore storing restore points and reducing your free space. Check with this tutorial to make sure that only your C: drive is selected to store retore points on. Next, you can use this tutorial to adjust how much max space you want allowed to be used for system restore points.