To Vista or not to Vista?

[nihil]

Well, I have done a bit of research, and apparently this is "normal" for Vista.

It uses something called "superfetch" and uses a lot of RAM as a sort of cache.

I found this suggestion:

open up a command prompt, type 'net stop superfetch', and press enter. (you'll probably need admin privileges).

You might have to fiddle with the UAC if you have that enabled............ "run as" even though you might have logged in to an administrator account?

Personally, I will wait a bit before I try messing with the settings. I know that Vista works differently, I will have to wait and see if "differently" works......

In theory I have no problem with high memory usage provided it is released to what I want to run when I want to run it. After all, RAM that is never used might as well be in your desk drawer.

I did repair a machine the other day that had been upgraded to home premium from XP home. I think it had a 1.8GHz single core processor. I removed a defective RAM strip that left it with 512Mb of DDR400.

I tried navigating around it and opening Office 2007 applications. It seemed to work reasonably well for someone who was just wanting to do office type functions.

I wonder if this "superfetch" only cuts in if you have a certain amount of resource to begin with?