I agree with Sabertooth, If you disable your paging file it will make use of most of it and give you a performance boost. Although, if you have a lot of programs open and I mean a lot, you might run into some problems. Mattwizz3 : ) A7N8X-E Deluxe Sempron 2600+ OC 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Dual Channel Maxtor SATA 200Gb/7200/8m WDC IDE 80Gb/7200/8m Damn Microsoft... DIE STEAM DIE!

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The projected ram requirements for Vista are 2 gig so you're all set for the future. Asus K8V-X Athlon 64 2800+ ATI AIW 9600XT 512 PC3200 WD 80 GIG HP CD-RW LG DVD Send me your unwanted computer parts!

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Don't think of it as wasted RAM. Think of it as insurance. You might not need it most of the time, but there will probably be times when it helps out.

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There are several apps that will NOT work if you disable the paging file. Strange, on my XP computer, task manager is telling me that windows is using 772MB out of my 1GB of RAM. You sure your computer is only using 500-600MB?? Are you a gamer at all? If so, you are probably using more of that ram than you think, at least while you are playing games. Also, if I remember correctly, many games have settings you can modify to make the game take advantage of having lotsa ram. Many games will probably automatically take advantage of it.

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Oh yeah I did that play around with paging. I didn't disable it though but I did set it to its minimum limit. That did improve things but that's what I was wondering, if there's anything else like that I could do to improve the performance using the extra ram. like maybe change when the files are taken out of the memory to less often so more data stays in the ram improving the speed eventually. so if there's a way you could do that.. For now, I just created a ramdisk with 256MB of storage and have my browser's cache files transfered and accessed from there whenever the computer's started :) Yep I am a gamer mr boogie. Does the use go up during gameplay? I mean yeah it obviously does but my ram monitoring utility said the max ram I'd used up at a time was 700 something MB. And yeah mine stays between 500-600MB. I am a pretty heavy user as well but it doesnt really go over 750 alot.. Thanks alot for replying everyone!

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I regularly approach 2 gigs usage with Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, and Illustrator open together (common when designing).

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Ah yeah. Heavy apps do use up alot of ram. Guess it's not a waste after all :)

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I have found very few apps that require paging and have had mine disabled for two years with 768megs of ram. Boots faster, plays games better and I have been really pleased with the performance. By disabling paging you force windows to not page to disk and utilize ram instead. If Microsoft didn't want you to have the option they wouldn't have given it to you. This is not for the average home user which is why you get all the warnings [warning Will Robinson warning] Consider downloading third party software and create a ram disk with some of the available ram. Set your temp variables to it. Set temp internet files to it. Speeds up printing [which uses temp variables] and after a reboot all of your temp internet files don't exist so you don't have to do that file maintenance. Get into video editing or editing scanned images. Watch your ram usage go up! Ram is never wasted. Might not always be utilized but then would you want you hard drive space maxed out? Clearly not. So also with ram. More is better than less. Good choice if I do say so myself. Best of luck! Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search

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Thanks for the tips wanderer. Yeah I created a ram disk and put the temp files in there. Does boost speed. Will try disabling paging now

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Hmm, I am sat next to a server with 8GB of ram, of which 6GB are being used. SO, just install MS Exchange and you'll use more RAM

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lol I'll do that

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