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On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:05:52 -0000, "Fernandes"

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On 02/18/2015 08:37 AM, Fernandes wrote:


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did some fine tuning and got memory usage on Win8 down to 680 megs

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What have you done?




It turned out that I was wrong when I said I had no apps running in the
back ground. I had Lava Soft AdWare installed that had been hogging a
lot
of RAM. I uninstalled it and now Win8 is running better.

Windows 8 consumes at least 1.2 GB of RAM. Thought you found a magic
solution to change this thing.

I turned off all background processes but system still needs 0.9 GB of
ram.

I don't know what "turned off all background processes" means, but if you
were to literally do that, Windows would stop.

Go to task manager where you can see at processes tab a list of background
processes and windows processes. You can turn off background processes
without problems but it is not safe to turn off windows processes.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:54:42 -0000, Fernandes wrote:

Windows 8 consumes at least 1.2 GB of RAM. Thought you found a magic
solution to change this thing.

The System Requirements page specifies 1GB is necessary to run win8.
A real-world running system is likely to use more, the memory
management system will take advantage of whatever RAM is available,
up to a point. If it reports using 2GB on a system that doesn't mean
that 2GB is necessary to run windows.

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On 02/18/2015 08:54 AM, Fernandes wrote:
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On 02/18/2015 08:37 AM, Fernandes wrote:


"philo" escreveu na mensagem ...

did some fine tuning and got memory usage on Win8 down to 680 megs

...

What have you done?




It turned out that I was wrong when I said I had no apps running in
the back ground. I had Lava Soft AdWare installed that had been
hogging a lot of RAM. I uninstalled it and now Win8 is running better.

Windows 8 consumes at least 1.2 GB of RAM. Thought you found a magic
solution to change this thing.

One thing you might not have done is to go into the Control
Panel....System....Advanced Settings....Performance

and set for "Best Performance"

I do that with all Windows machines I work on...even with very good
hardware specs. I want the best possible performance and do not want
one bit of "eye candy" .


Since I am running Win8 in a Virtual Machine, it is not going to
perform as well as Win8 running on real hardware.


Since I expect that any new machine today will come with at least 8
gigs of RAM...it Win8 takes about a gig of RAM when idling...that
should not be too bad.


Also: With Windows 10 I am of course just running the Technical
Preview version and I'd sure things will change in it's final release

Simple machines still come with 2 GB RAM like the Celeron ones and there
are tablets with only 1 GB. Machines with 8 GB are the most expensive we
have on market.

So, I don't understand how Paul can say Windows 8.1 consumes 350 MB in idle.

One thing you can do to speed up system
performance is setting virtual memory to fixed recommended amount.

This is a 16GB machine. Using MSCONFIG and boot:advanced option, I
set maxmem to 512MB and rebooted. This is the result. With no program
running, in this photo you can see the OS uses 338MB. I can make it go
lower than that, but that's enough for now.

http://i62.tinypic.com/2586wb8.jpg

And this was captured on a *real* computer, not a VM. You can
tell the machine isn't happy at 512MB, but it did run, and it
didn't crash on shutdown. (When I've done these tests before,
shutdown is actually the hardest part for the machine. More
problems show up there.)

Paul