High RAM Usage

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I have a Windows XP system running mainly on defaults. How can I minimize the amount of RAM I'm using? I'm not on a LAN. I don't use the XP firewall. I don't use Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. What services can I safely disable and clear RAM without affecting my functionality?
 
Why? It's supposed to use all available RAM, as programs require.

Duane534 said:
I have a Windows XP system running mainly on defaults. How can I minimize
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the amount of RAM I'm using? I'm not on a LAN. I don't use the XP firewall.
I don't use Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. What services can I safely
disable and clear RAM without affecting my functionality?
 
I have a Windows XP system running mainly on defaults. How can I minimize the amount of RAM I'm using? I'm not on a LAN. I don't use the XP firewall. I don't use Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. What services can I safely disable and clear RAM without affecting my functionality?
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Duane,

BlackViper has the most definitive list of services:
http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm

If you want to know more about the many processes running on your computer, get
Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager. You can look at any process and see what modules
it contains, and who wrote or distributed each module. And graph its memory and
CPU usage.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
The alternative to not using RAM is to use the page file, which is much
slower. You are better off to just let Windows handle the paging of RAM.
Also, since you do not use a firewall, you are a candidate for attack. I
wish you luck...you're going to need it...

Bobby
 
Duane534 said:
I have a Windows XP system running mainly on defaults. How can I minimize the amount of RAM I'm using? I'm not on a LAN. I don't use the XP firewall. I don't use Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. What services can I safely disable and clear RAM without affecting my functionality?
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RAM exists to be used and Windows will always attempt to find some
use, anything at all that my possibly be of some benefit, for every
bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving it sit there idly
going to rot.

If you really do not want the RAM to be used then take the chips out
of the computer and mount them on the wall. :-)

And unless you are using a cable/dsl router with NAT protection then
you must have a firewall of some kind to protect your computer from
intruders. Using a web browser or email without a firewall in place
is foolhardy - comparable to jumping out of an airplane without a
parachute or playing Russian Roulette with all chambers loaded.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
Why do you want to minimize the amount of RAM being used?
the amount of RAM I'm using? I'm not on a LAN. I don't use the XP firewall. I
don't use Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. What services can I safely
disable and clear RAM without affecting my functionality?
 
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