Odin_Norway Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 When I start up windows there is only about 740mb available of my 1gb of RAM. I don't have tons of programs running in the background. I believe the ones who are running are the ones who really need to run. I always check of for programs to not start during startup and I have also been using msconfig to turn of the ones which don't have that option. So it's basically just keyboard and mouse and soundcard stuff that loads during startup. And Norton Virus. Any suggestions? Oдин
Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 get hijack this and scan ur pc, also get spybot search and destroy, both can be had from the internet. 740mb is a lot of ram to be used just after startup. i think you may have spyware. norton is a hog, i would recommend anything but norton for antivirus.
Odin_Norway Posted March 12, 2006 Author Posted March 12, 2006 You misunderstood a bit :) I got 740 mb available just after startup. It's not 740 mb being used ;) But now I shut down Norton as well so now I got 787mb available. But it still means that 220-230 mb is still being used just after startup. I think that's alot. But I will try those programs you mentioned. Oдин
Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 ow sorry, mybad, yea, thats ok, your figures are cool, 700 odd mb left over is roughly correct. i got 2 gb of ram and i have roughly 1600mb left after i boot up, so yours is normal.
Odin_Norway Posted March 12, 2006 Author Posted March 12, 2006 He He Okay :) But I did manage to get some 60mb free. But thanks for the tip on spybot. I relly liked that program. Very useful. Have only been using Ad-Aware earlier. Oдин
Brit_Radar_Dude Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 Check out fsautostart ( http://www.kensalter.com/fsautostart ) - it can help in shutting down the Windows cr*p you don't really need running when you fly and can give you a little more memory and processing power. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Sorry Death, you lose! It was Professor Plum....
Prophet_169th Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 There are also shells that replace explorer.exe, that take a lot less memory.
TucksonSonny Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 Or you can make a little script (textfile.bat or textfile.cmd) including all the services that you want to stop with Sc.exe - Service Controller Tool. (Download it here: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000/sc.zip) Example for my system: @ECHO OFF CLS sc stop MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS sc stop MSOLAP$SQLEXPRESS sc stop SQLBrowser sc stop msftesql sc stop msftesql$SQLEXPRESS sc stop MsDtsServer sc stop clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32 sc stop Spooler sc stop wuauserv sc stop ERSvc sc stop FastUserSwitchingCompatibility sc stop helpsvc sc stop MDM sc stop navapsvc sc stop PlugPlay sc stop RasMan sc stop RpcSc sc stop wscsvc sc stop ShellHWDetection sc stop SSDPSRV sc stop Symantec core LC sc stop ccEvtMgr sc stop SNDSrvc sc stop ccProxy sc stop ccSrtMgr sc stop SPBBCSvc sc stop srservice sc stop Schedule sc stop TapiSrv sc stop TermService sc stop Themes sc stop SharedAccess sc stop WZCSVC DELL Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 940 2,93 GHz @3 GHz, 8 MB cache | 8.192 MB 1.067 MHz Tri Channel DDR3 | 512 MB ATI® Radeon™ 4850 | 500 GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA | Samsung SM 2693 HM 25.5 " | HOTAS Cougar Thrustmaster |
Pilotasso Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 740-780MB free RAM is pretty normal. Windows has always robbed off so much memory for the simplest tasks. what it too 10 KB in the DOS shell now it takes 12 MB. Thats more than a top of the line SIM at that time. .
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