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Originally Posted by Thanakil

If you wanna talk about ridiculous tho : Move a window around the screen really fast (like in circle) or even just move the mouse ALONE.
Then look how much CPU power that uses... Horrific.
(this goes for the old win95 look too, it uses way too much cpu power)

yeah, when i had vista, everytime i monitored the CPU usage, it was always at 3~6%.
even when i had no programs running.
i was so pissed that i'm wasting that CPU performance on nothing.

Originally Posted by Dark Mits

The only problem when disabling VM is with memory leaks. You may suddenly end up with 0 free space and only take notice because Windows stops responding. With VM enabled you notice it earlier because of the constant hard drive sounds and if you're lucky enough you'll get a Windows notification informing you that the page file is getting larger.

Another problem is that some games require VM to be enabled (one game required me to have 1GB before it would launch!!!) even if you have 10 times the max amount of memory the game will ever need.

interesting,
i think i'm going to keep my pagefile disabled until i get any errors like that. then i'll re-enable it.

Originally Posted by Clements

Don't disable the pagefile. If you have 2GB RAM or more, just set it to 200MB as a maximum size. That way you won't break certain applications that require a pagefile to run.

but i'm pretty sure windows still uses paging regardless.
as i disabled it, and i still get alot of paged memory and commit charge in my task manager.
like i said above, i'm going to keep my paging disabled until i get a problem.

so far i've ran a few games, IE7, photoshop, and other programs, and i havn't had any problems.

and things are faster, since whenever i click on an old program, it loads instantaneous, instead of having to load itself off my harddrive's pagefile.

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