High Memory

[JD]

Running Windows XP pro, office 2003 with SP1 with 256 megs of ram. My Ram is
being eaten by somthing and the task manager does not show it. It idels
after reboot at 250 megs. Any ideas?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Restart in Safe Mode and run a scan with one of the following programs.

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Also click Start > Run > type in: "msconfig" without quotes > startup (tab),
uncheck any unnecessary programs that might be starting up with the system
and running in the background.

Andre

 

[Al Smith]

Running Windows XP pro, office 2003 with SP1 with 256 megs of ram. My Ram is

being eaten by somthing and the task manager does not show it. It idels
after reboot at 250 megs. Any ideas?

RAM being used is not necessarily a problem. It is there to be
used. I would not worry unless my system was running more slowly
or was crashing or generating errors. Check your CPU cycle usage
(hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE). If it is down around a few percent, or less
(zero is nice), that's a good sign.

 

[Rock]

Running Windows XP pro, office 2003 with SP1 with 256 megs of ram. My Ram is
being eaten by somthing and the task manager does not show it. It idels
after reboot at 250 megs. Any ideas?

Windows XP tries to find a use for all memory. Memory management is
dynamic. If another process needs some XP reallocates it. So what you
are seeing is not necesarrily a problem.

 

[Steve Shattuck]

Running Windows XP pro, office 2003 with SP1 with 256 megs of ram. My Ram
is being eaten by somthing and the task manager does not show it. It idels
after reboot at 250 megs. Any ideas?

What did you buy the memory for? You paid for it, and XP uses it. Some
reasons include the HD/CD cache, loading pageable portions of the OS. etc.
If you load a program, these are released and given to your work.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Running Windows XP pro, office 2003 with SP1 with 256 megs of
ram. My
Ram is being eaten by somthing and the task manager does not
show it.
It idels after reboot at 250 megs. Any ideas?

Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or
nearly all, of your memory, all the time, and that's good not
bad. Free memory is wasted memory. You paid for it all and
shouldn't want to see any of it wasted.



Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all
the time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will
use that part for caching, then give it back when your apps later
need it. In this way Windows keeps all your memory working for
you all the time.