vista resouce hog

After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

"ltpyro" wrote:

After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage.

On my system Windows Vista beta2 takes about 450MB after a fresh installation with the Basic interface.

I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got spyware or viruses running. Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing what loads at startup.
"ltpyro" wrote:

After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

LOL! with all the programs that came pre-installed on my XP system, it typically has 60 processes running (760MB ram used) Vista - 45 processes, 600MB, no functionality lost. improved performance, except in media center.
"vampyre~" wrote:

I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got spyware or viruses running. Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing what loads at startup.
"ltpyro" wrote:
After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Please take into account that Vista is still being optimized for performance. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"ltpyro" wrote in message

After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

You must be talking about a system loaded with cr*p from dell or hp or something. On a fresh install of windows xp pro you should have around 18-19 processes. 60 is just rediculas.
"Kip" wrote:

LOL! with all the programs that came pre-installed on my XP system, it typically has 60 processes running (760MB ram used) Vista - 45 processes, 600MB, no functionality lost. improved performance, except in media center.
"vampyre~" wrote:
I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got spyware or viruses running. Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing what loads at startup.
"ltpyro" wrote:
After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

hp. plus, I have hp printers (hp solution center to go with those). hp wireless assistant (so I can turn bluetooth and wifi on and off indepentantly of each other). then there's the widcomm bluetooth stack, the ati catalyst control center, truecrypt for drive encryption, and all of the programs I actually use for work (60 processes is when I'm actually using it, not when it's sitting idle). windows vista handles all of those things, with 15 fewer processes.
"vampyre~" wrote:

You must be talking about a system loaded with cr*p from dell or hp or something. On a fresh install of windows xp pro you should have around 18-19 processes. 60 is just rediculas.
"Kip" wrote:
LOL! with all the programs that came pre-installed on my XP system, it typically has 60 processes running (760MB ram used) Vista - 45 processes, 600MB, no functionality lost. improved performance, except in media center.
"vampyre~" wrote:
I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got spyware or viruses running. Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing what loads at startup.
"ltpyro" wrote:
After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Turning off the search service(indexing) gives a pretty good performance boost. -- Jim
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Please take into account that Vista is still being optimized for performance. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"ltpyro" wrote in message After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

how do you turn it off?
"JimR1" wrote:

Turning off the search service(indexing) gives a pretty good performance boost. -- Jim
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Please take into account that Vista is still being optimized for performance. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"ltpyro" wrote in message After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

I'm not sure in vista, but in xp it was in add/remove programs->windows components, and it was at the bottom of the list. (windows indexing service)
Hope this helps.
p.s. It still bogles my mind that you have 60 processes running with xp,)
"Kip" wrote:

how do you turn it off?
"JimR1" wrote:
Turning off the search service(indexing) gives a pretty good performance boost. -- Jim
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Please take into account that Vista is still being optimized for performance. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"ltpyro" wrote in message After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Just like in XP. Start>Run>services.msc. After turning off the service, go to computer,right click the drive, select properties, uncheck the box that says "allow indexing service to index the contents of this drive etc.", select ignore all on any information window that pops up. -- Jim
"Kip" wrote:

how do you turn it off?
"JimR1" wrote:
Turning off the search service(indexing) gives a pretty good performance boost. -- Jim
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Please take into account that Vista is still being optimized for performance. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"ltpyro" wrote in message After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

I run at least that many on XP Pro and XP Pro x64.
"vampyre~" wrote in message

I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got spyware or viruses running. Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing what loads at startup.
"ltpyro" wrote:
After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

No, it is typical of XP with a pretty standard set of programs. Office ups the count pretty good, as do anti-malware programs, etc.
"vampyre~" wrote in message

You must be talking about a system loaded with cr*p from dell or hp or something. On a fresh install of windows xp pro you should have around 18-19 processes. 60 is just rediculas.
"Kip" wrote:
LOL! with all the programs that came pre-installed on my XP system, it typically has 60 processes running (760MB ram used) Vista - 45 processes, 600MB, no functionality lost. improved performance, except in media center.
"vampyre~" wrote:
I noticed that a fresh install of vista has twice as many processes running than xp. I loaded a program or two then checked task manager. 44 processes running! Yikes, on an xp box if i saw that many running it meant someones got spyware or viruses running. Vista definitly uses more resources, but you can cut it down by choosing what loads at startup.
"ltpyro" wrote:
After loading vista I wanted to check the system usage of resources and found that with just the os running and no other applications (haven't installed any yet, not even an antivirus) it runs at about 600MB of memory usage. Holy crap!!! Windows XP with all my apps loaded at start up only used about 200MB of system memory. Going to do a few more tests to see if this very large increase in usage will help system performance. Let me know if you have any thoughts.