How much memory usage after bootup?

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Benny Blanco

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Hey all, I'm just curious about what everyone else's system runs at in terms of memory usage.

I just installed windows 2000 on an older machine for someone, a machine with a 1ghz Athlon & AMD750 chipset. After bootup was all done (pretty fast too :) ), it was using about 80,000KB (78MB).

My rig, a xp2500/nf7-s uses about 119,000KB (116MB).

Also, this is with nothing "extra" starting up with the computer, except of course Norton Antivirus

So please post your OS and memory usage after bootup.

Thanks!
Benny
 
are you booting into administrator or another profile? if ya boot into administrator it'll load up more services than if you were another user. but naturally not everything is opened up to you.
 
also how much ram windows eats up depends on how much system ram there is.

with a gig of ram i can boot into win2k at close to 80megs, on my administrator account. Never tried it with just a normal user account though.
 
HRSlammer, on both systems I was booting up as administrator.

Dekar12, on my system I have 512mb, on that other system, 128mb.

So you run at 80megs.... thats with your A64 right?
 
Originally posted by HRslammR
are you booting into administrator or another profile? if ya boot into administrator it'll load up more services than if you were another user. but naturally not everything is opened up to you.
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By deffinition, a service runs no matter who is logged in. The same services start no matter if the Admin account is used or a normal user account. The only difference would be whether or not a regular user account has access to them.
 
when i bot up i get 105 mb of memory usage with win xp (the only thing tha tboots up is F@H) if i close that it's 96mb.

The external harddrive i have adds a couple megs when i plug it in.

I disabled allot of useless services though.


edit: some of us can't spell
 
windows XP home

262MB usage after bootup. ( no adware, just alot of other crap: f@h, gaim, thunderbird, mbm5, OOo).
 
Originally posted by Benny Blanco
HRSlammer, on both systems I was booting up as administrator.

Dekar12, on my system I have 512mb, on that other system, 128mb.

So you run at 80megs.... thats with your A64 right?
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Yea, thats with my new computer. My old one is about the same with a T-bird 1.2@1.4 with 1gig of ram running win2k.

I would prolly have to bring the usage up a little if I ever networked the two computers together. Since most of the services I have killed deal with networking, such as computer browser.

=P
 
I am using about 85MB upon startup with XP, but I went and disabled a bunch of unneeded/unwanted services.
 
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