Vista Processes?

[Zake202]

I have 56 running atm using 1.2Gb out of 4gb while idle.

Does this seem average? I haven't installed a lot, just basics.

Winrar, avast, spybot, adaware, sound drivers, video drivers, etc etc.

[Met-AL]

Last time I looked I had around 80 loaded with about the same ram usage.

[QHalo]

65 processes running but I got a 384MB VM running and 3 instances of Packet Tracer running using about 2.84GB of RAM. Your utilization sounds normal.

[Zake202]

^_^

I'm guessing it's vista then. I have nothing out of the ordinary running in processes or tasks.

Have only disabled 2 after following a guide about them.

[Mithent]

Lots of processes are not necessarily a bad thing, if they're not using much memory and are mostly idle; active processes are the problem. I have a few programs running at the moment and have 80 processes, but most aren't doing a whole lot.

[DeaconFrost]

Yay, another Vista thread about memory! It's been a while!

In all seriousness, as long as none of those processes are malware, you are fine. Vista will use more memory than XP, but it is being used effectively for caching.

[Zake202]

Thank you for all of the replies.

I kind of figured if it was using this much memory it was for a good reason.

Even running WOW it's only using 45-50% memory. Which is good I guess?