Opinions please

I like WindowsX's work, but some have had luck in ruuning this without issue some not so lucky, so my advise is if your going to try it backup your important data first!

Are we talking original Vista Transformation Pack or the actual Vista?

If actual Vista, personally I have found opposite, Vista vs XP on my PCs, Vista handles memory much better, what happens is many read stories on the net from the testing phases of Vista, when there were many error and bug collecting tools built in to store and hold errata, this was memory hungry, now that these items are removed, many still complain about vista's memory usage but do not understand how vista handles memory, yes if you leave vista to continue with idle background tasks while your not making it work it will gladly suck up all the ram and cpu it can get its grubby paws on, but it's not because its a resource hog!

Vista takes all that memory your not using and starts throwing things it knows you use into a memory, uses spare cpu to index the data on your hd, having 2GB ram and 1.5GB free is not a great usage of ram, that ram can be used to hold common used dlls, files, apps for quick running, ram is faster than paging it on HD.

Vista will for the most put aside those tasks its running and hand you back the memory when you try to access something that requires more ram or the ram its using.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/03/VistaKernel/

 

I guess the upshot is VTP is fine on its own, but adding more sidebar gadgets, tools etc will bump up the ram requirements? so if your adding more gadgets make sure you have 1GB+ .. would I be right Goran?

 

TBH Goran I have no clue, a possible is that some of the files on your Bros comp are in pagefile over memory and as your PC has double the ram you can handle the whole apps files?!

But thanks for the info on VTP.