J
JP
Vista Ultimate. 1GB RAM. 256MB Nvidia graphics card.
160GB HDD - 80 percent free space. Dual core processor.
I've noticed an unusually high memeory usage in
this Vista Ultimate PC. When you boot up and login
to the PC (joined to a Win2003 domain) the memory
usage is about 36% and stays that way for awhile.
Then, with with no apps open, other than the Sidebar,
and Spy Sweeper (running in the System Tray), within a few hours,
(and not even using the PC), the memory usage goes up to 76% !
Most of it is in dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, svchost.exe, and explorer.exe.
Their memory usage doubles or even triples compared to when the
PC boots up.
The disturbing thing is this PC is not being used. It just sits
there with the screen saver going. So where is all this memory
usage coming from. Is this normal for Vista? Is is preloading apps into
memory?
160GB HDD - 80 percent free space. Dual core processor.
I've noticed an unusually high memeory usage in
this Vista Ultimate PC. When you boot up and login
to the PC (joined to a Win2003 domain) the memory
usage is about 36% and stays that way for awhile.
Then, with with no apps open, other than the Sidebar,
and Spy Sweeper (running in the System Tray), within a few hours,
(and not even using the PC), the memory usage goes up to 76% !
Most of it is in dwm.exe, sidebar.exe, svchost.exe, and explorer.exe.
Their memory usage doubles or even triples compared to when the
PC boots up.
The disturbing thing is this PC is not being used. It just sits
there with the screen saver going. So where is all this memory
usage coming from. Is this normal for Vista? Is is preloading apps into
memory?