WTM ; Physical Memory

So, I searched and didn't find anything. So I need some answers.

When you open up task manager and look at the Performance tab in Vista and look at the Physical Memory (MB) part.

Now, Mine says this:

Total: 4089
Cached: 2989
Free: 45

Now tell me, does this look right to you? I notice my comp is a little sluggish as well. Could this be the cause?

 

I believe that your looking at what windows has recently used as far as memory. It should change all the time.

Did a fast search found these:

Look at #5
http://www.tweakguides.com/VA_5.html


http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=42452


make sure you click "Show All" on this -
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-hk/help/d119bbe6-f604-4eb1-9c75-bbbc45cce1da1033.mspx


As far as your system being sluggish try some of these:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html?filter[11]=Performance%20Maintenance

 

In vista those numbers are not really useful. From where you are at click on Resource Monitor and check the % of memory used. It should be a bit more accurate. In Windows 7 they add an "Available" indicator so you don't have to do that. For example my Windows 7 machine shows...

Total: 4090
Cached: 1565
Available: 2434
Free: 923

Note that Free != Available because about a gig and a half is allocated to an application but isn't necessarily being used. It can easily be re-allocated to something else.