Vista and free physical memory and hdd space

Hey,

I am still exploring with my m1330, and I uninstalled most of the bloatware. I was going to do a clean install, but I had transferred my songs and documents and videos before thinking about that, and now I am too lazy to do it.

I basically uninstalled dell support center stuff, creative live cam avatar stuff, and whole bunch of other things too. I have somewhere between 55-58 processes running with 2gb of memory.

I noticed that even when I don't run anything, taskmanager only shows like few hundred mb's free (usually under 400mb). Is there anything hogging the memory, or vista is just being dumb?

Also, i noticed that whenever i clean disk or something like for example i had 96gb free after transferring stuff, and then deleted 6gb of stuff that i didn't like from the transfer, so for few mins it showed 102gb free, and then after few mins, it went to aroound 98gb and then 97gb. I even emptied the recyle bin and everything.

can anyone explain this?

 

The RAM Vista takes up is a feature called Superfetch, which makes your computer feel faster by preloading commonly used apps, even while idling with nothing open. Nothing to worry about. Unused memory is wasted memory.

I also have the HDD fluctuaction on my Thinkpad. I haven't figured out what it is yet.

 

ook thanks for the reply! Yeah thought it would be prefetch files, but I wasn't sure! I hope the HDD fluctuation is nothing to worry about,

 

I had the same question as you, but I found the answer here, with more details: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html