I found your post because I am looking for info about running Vista rc1 with
only 256MB Ram. My install said 512mb was required but after I ran Vista for
a few days, I needed something crazy to do so I pulled 256mb out. I have a
32mb radion 7000 agp card on a amd 1600+. It runs ok with a lot of swaping
but I am looking at shutting down extra services such as indexing and my
theams. I love the new features (including the theam) and find xp quite ugly
after being in Vista. I would like to find what non-required vista services
that I can disable for testing in msconfig. I have 167MB RAM in use in
taskman as I write this with theams and indexing disabled.
Can someone post a list of services I can disable without breaking media
player? I don't want p2p and don't need any extra security features like
defender or firewall. I do want to keep updates running and don't plan to
visit any "dangerous" sites for phishing or porn. I know how to keep a clean
pc but to run this system with 256mb would be nice and should be possible.