Take a screenshot of your memory usage and post it!

I'm really curious to see others.

Just take it right now, with typical usage.

 

In case it's a little hard to read...

Hardware Reserved: 47MB
In Use: 2099MB
Modified: 70MB
Standby: 1321MB
Free: 8751MB

Available: 10072MB
Cached: 1391MB
Total: 12241MB
Installed: 12288MB

 

74 Processes, IE 9 open
Private- NEW balance shoes, I own 6 pairs;
Have you tried vbulletin - default style to get rid of ads on NBR?

 

Haha, nice. And no, I use AdBlocker Plus to get rid of them everywhere on the web. Personally, I think NBR isn't too intrusive with ads, with one one at the top and the occasional popup window, but I leave it on for other sites I visit.

 

Here is mine with Outlook 2010 open, 3 tabs in FF, Eset Smart Security and SAS Pro (Live Monitoring) running, dropbox, PerfectDisk Agent (Stealth AutoPilot)

PS: I have uninstalled PerfectCache and got my 55 USD refund because it seemed to cause my whole C:\ Partition and boot files to disappear randomly, upon reboot, I will go into recovery mode and the system's gone! Thank god I have Acronis Boot Disc which enables me to quickly recover back. With that said, they issued me a refund no questions asked.

 

Ouch, sorry to hear that. Gotta love Superfetch though

 

Couldn't you have cropped that image a bit? (Here's mine: )

 

Well thanks to Hungry Man and many of you here (can't recall the names of the top of head) y'all are stripping my system down from the program that I purchased and giving meh the refunds

So far I have refunded:

Ashampoo WinOptimizer8 (Usless program that does nothing more than clean your temp files and registry [very basic one], and recommends what serves to turn off, but in my case, it can recommend 0 to turn off since I already have the useless one turned off like Remote Registry (security risk), windows media player network service, tablet pc, program compatibility assistant, etc.)

Raxco Perfect Registry (has nothing to do with the word Perfect, it is more like Crappy Registry, made my ATI Catalyst Manager AND PerfectDisk stop functioning properly! Heh, the irony, their own product screwing their PerfectDisk)

Raxco PerfectCache (great results when I benchmarked my system, but it wrecked my system after a few reboots everytime, I narrowed down the problem to that and PerfectRegistry as my system was perfectly fine before I install them.)


The best 5 programs that I have paid for and don't regret are:

- Eset Smart Security (been using it for 2 years and NOD32 for 4 years and I love their performance)

- SuperAntiSpyware Pro (second layer of protection

- Internet Download Manager (I know there are free ones out there like Free Download Manager, but this one puts them all down to shame, worth every buck, it felt like I upgraded my connection really)

- Ashampoo Burning Studio 10 (Simply the best all round Burning program out there with no bloat ware like Nero's! I can create DVDs, MP3 Discs, slideshows, VCDs, etc very easily with is lovely features and UI)

- PerfectDisk (the absolute performance accelerator that I swear by!)

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How did you do that? To show a small Thumbnail but then when you click you get the full screen?

If you teach me I will throw in a free rep point J/K

 

I've heard pretty good things about ESET and NOD32

 

You heard right, the lightest system resources hands down. 0 impact on performance . That's why NOD32 is the gamers' choice, that's when I learned about it actually.

Back in 2004, someone asked on the Tech-PC Forums for the recommended AV to use for best performance, then many members said NOD32 (No Eset Smart Security at that time), so I googled NOD32, and noticed that it had won the Virus Bulletin Awards for many years consecutively and that's when I decided to try it, and could never go back. It feels like your system has no AV installed, yet is actually the most secure.

Eset Smart Security just adds the Firewall, which is very good, and very easy to configure, if you choose automatic mode ESS does all the work for you in choosing what to allow / not allow. Or else you can choose the interactive mode where you have to accept every connection / create a rule manually.

New features in v5 listed at the bottom of the page:

ESET Beta Program - Free antivirus software beta testing


This is interesting for Gamers too:

 

Alt - Prt SC to capture active windows image to clip board - (or prt scr for the entire desktop)
open paint or paint.net (great free program BTW) - and paste there. Save the image locally- open manage attachment under additional options when you post (this can also be done via edit go advanced on an existing post) - Browse and find the image - upload (note you will have to resize if the image does not fit the criteria in the dialog). Click upload.

 

Here's mine: streaming music, 9 tabs in Opera and Steam opened.

 

Reply using 'Advanced Mode' and click the 'Manage Attachments' button down there \/. Load your picture using the pop-up. After you upload the image it will appear in the 'Attachments' dropdown box at the upper right of the editor window.

Hit reply and you're done.

 

Thanks for the tip guys, rep added

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37113959/Screenshots/ResMonRAM.PNG

Only 4GB of RAM s:

 

Yeah, I need to get some Ram.

 

You should take advantage of one of the RAM deals you post!

 

I think I am going to...That Corsair 8GB deal at amazon is looking good right now

 

got mine to 7Gb playing with some virtual machines

 

Never knew about the resource monitor before. Firefox and Thunderbird take up about a third of the memory being used of 90 processes and six applications. Mozilla Devs need to get on the stick

 

Memory usage on my T500 with Steam, IE9, Opera, Chrome, and foobar2000 open. Perfect demonstration of why I'd say 4GB of memory is more than enough for 95% of users.

 

Here is on my desktop

4gb RAM
67 processes
4 tabs open in chrome
media player open
1gb of page file