Crazy

[CorruptedSanitY]

That can be true but I am such an anal person I would never turn it on even if you provided scientific proof. Upon a new format I spend hours tweaking services and registry stuff just to get my RAM usage at the smallest I can have, and I turn off anything I don't think I need. I have no desktop, no style if you will. My friends say looking at my PC is like being at a hospital it's so sanitized. if I want to print, or use a digital camera, or use the volume button on my keyboard, I have to turn on the service first. Just to be safe, cool and quiet stays off

Read this on another forum. Thats rather anal.

[HAL9000]

to each their own.

[TwoRails]

ditto

[doctorgonzo]

Reducing RAM usage to bare minimum in Windows? Give me a break. These young whipper-snappers today know nothing about the time when DOS prevailed and you actually NEEDED these skills in order to get as much of that 640K of memory free to run your games. MEMMAKER, EMM386, HIMEM...ah, the good old days.

[David M]

"To each his own" That is one of the nice things about computers, you can custom tailor one to exactly how you want it...unless you have a Mac.

[faulkner132]

Originally Posted by David M unless you have a Mac.

David, I'm afraid you are mistaken.
Mac's can read your mind and automatically adjust itself to exactly how you want it without you doing anything.

[CorruptedSanitY]

Im all about "to each thier own". Im in no way criticizing the guy. I was just surprised how one would deprvive them selves so much. As gonzo says, we (he too) has plenty of ram to enjoy things such as Picasa desktop screen saver (makes my photography so much more fun).

[Statica]

All I can say is that the guy better prepare himself to have XP as his last Windows OS. After experiencing SuperFetch on Vista, I cannot imagine why people go on about keeping the RAM usage to the minimum and cringe at high RAM use on Vista. I think maybe this time they got it right at M$.

Think about it, he paid for those 2GB (or whatever) of RAM. What's the point of having 1.5GB of it sitting empty for the majority of the computer's use? SuperFetch does anticipate most of the application usage (in addition to prefetch on XP) and pre-loads them into RAM. It just makes so much sense, when background tasks complete, why not just repopulate the vacant RAM with data in anticipation of use instead of letting it sit idle. Most computer users are pretty habitual.

[MaxRat]

if you're going to be that Anal about stuff like that why not go a step farther and Nlite a copy of windows with pulling out all the stuff you dont want or need...? getting rid of the bloat and still keeping it rather functional you can get it down to 450mb install or less...

Some people are just too Anal or should I say...So Anal they cant see the light of day...

besides if you're worried about ram usage buy more it's cheap...

[doubledragon5]

I use to Tweak my pc, put found it to me more of a hassle that it is good.. So what ever ram gets used so be it, that is what is there for..

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by doctorgonzo Reducing RAM usage to bare minimum in Windows? Give me a break. These young whipper-snappers today know nothing about the time when DOS prevailed and you actually NEEDED these skills in order to get as much of that 640K of memory free to run your games. MEMMAKER, EMM386, HIMEM...ah, the good old days.

Ya... and storing data in both nibbles of a byte

Originally Posted by doubledragon5 I use to Tweak my pc, put found it to me more of a hassle that it is good.. So what ever ram gets used so be it, that is what is there for..

Same here, I use to "groom" my system all the time, all the way thru Win 98.2. Never noticed any real benefit doing so with XP. - Like the good old days mentioned above, when I was the only person around with whopping, dual 30 MB drives screwed to the underside of the desk, at a $1,000, ya there wasn't an errant .bak, .tmp, or other unnecessary file hanging around. That's when partitioning meant a lot more as you greatly reduced cluster size therefore "expanding" the amount of actual data you could store. Now for about the same about of money you can get...what?... 5 TB in drive space? How things changed...

[David M]

Originally Posted by faulkner132 David, I'm afraid you are mistaken. Mac's can read your mind and automatically adjust itself to exactly how you want it without you doing anything.

Oh thats right...I forgot they have magical qualities.

[Cricket]

I'm glad the title of this thread got changed...the original was sort of offensive.

Cricket

[shadowpr]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Ya... and storing data in both nibbles of a byte Same here, I use to "groom" my system all the time, all the way thru Win 98.2. Never noticed any real benefit doing so with XP. - Like the good old days mentioned above, when I was the only person around with whopping, dual 30 MB drives screwed to the underside of the desk, at a $1,000, ya there wasn't an errant .bak, .tmp, or other unnecessary file hanging around. That's when partitioning meant a lot more as you greatly reduced cluster size therefore "expanding" the amount of actual data you could store. Now for about the same about of money you can get...what?... 5 TB in drive space? How things changed...

I still have a 4mb hard drive around here. And like you said, not a single file was on it that wasn't needed. But now a days, most of us save more then we have to, just because we can.

[doubledragon5]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Ya... and storing data in both nibbles of a byte Same here, I use to "groom" my system all the time, all the way thru Win 98.2. Never noticed any real benefit doing so with XP. - Like the good old days mentioned above, when I was the only person around with whopping, dual 30 MB drives screwed to the underside of the desk, at a $1,000, ya there wasn't an errant .bak, .tmp, or other unnecessary file hanging around. That's when partitioning meant a lot more as you greatly reduced cluster size therefore "expanding" the amount of actual data you could store. Now for about the same about of money you can get...what?... 5 TB in drive space? How things changed...

I remember my first pc some what, it was a Tandy 386 dx I believe. It ad a 4meg ram 70 meg Hd and was purchased new from a guy who owned a cleaning co. He never took it out of the box, because he was bought out from another cleaning co.. I use to come home from work and spend hrs. in dos trying to figure out what the heck I was doing, but it made me look important to the wife LOL!!!

[TwoRails]

Systems seemed to be a different kind of fun back then. I remember when the 486 came out and there were magazine articles saying, "who will every use this much power!" -

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Systems seemed to be a different kind of fun back then. I remember when the 486 came out and there were magazine articles saying, "who will every use this much power!" -

Yeah, but those who were early adopters yearning for "all that power" paid something like $9000 for those computers. Ouch.

Cricket

[TwoRails]

Ya, prices were "fantastic" back then. My first, and only, pre-built system was an original IBM PC, and it was over $6,000 with some goodies like a wide carriage dot matrix printer and a fancy color monitor. Now, if I can only remember if that was a two color, or four color monitor... I like the "fantastic" prices of modern, now-a-days building.... much, much better!