Want to Trim the Fat Off of Vista

souredspirit · Oct 30, 2008

I'd like to reduce the command line usage for my "Vista Experience" which for nearly 2 years now has been less than theme park quality lol. My biggest problem is ram consumption. Here are what my specs were, and I'll explain why that's past tense afterward.

Windows Vista Ultimate x86(64-bit) OS
Asus M2N32 SLI-Deluxe MB
AMD 3.0GHz Socket AM2 x86 X2 aka 64-bit Dual Core with the 940 Socket
Nvidia Geforce 7600 OC (Well aware of the glaring weakness lol)
4 GBs DDR2 pc6400 800MHz Ram
600W Power supply (Another weakness I know)
And a Seagate 500GB Sata 300(Dual Speed)

I dont think my DVD rom, or sound card really matter in this situation. And the reason I say HAD 4 GBs is because Vista is SOOOO full of command lines i dont use that it burnt out one of my ram cards, and now im back down to 3. Thankfully my L1 and L2 cache are 3/4 Gb by themselves so I'm still at 3.75 of Vista's maximum 4.

So if anyone has any idea's on how to streamline vista to cut down it's consumption I would greatly appreciate it, cuz just idling takes up 2 GB's of ram and thats just unacceptable. BTW I'm not interested in "power saving" options, I'm a power user and that's just how it is...what I'm looking for is a more efficient way to use it, or perhaps some tricks I'm unaware of to turn off features not in use etc.

Also if you just have links to quick fix downloads, or walkthroughs, or just general reading that can teach me a thing or two, I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance,
-Kyle

souredspirit · Oct 30, 2008

Ha a good answer to my own question

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

99 Tips and Tweaks for windows Vista, from PCStats.com

DavidGP · Oct 30, 2008

Hi

Apart from cutting down the number of startups and services running, alot covered in the aforementioned guide from Adryn, one thing to remember is the old docterine of "unused ram is wasted ram" their is no point in having 4GB or ram and 3GB of it sitting idle doing nothing, its much better if the OS can utilize as much as it can to do its tasks, then once you need it or the OS has finished housekeeping tasks it gives you it back, a nice write up about Vista and memory managment, which is much much better than that of XP.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162480.aspx ( Mark Russinovich is as your likely aware a coding genius )
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html

One app I have added to one PC is this in an memory clearing app for those apps that decide to hold onto ram, Cleanmem

I use this application and it doesnt need to be in the startup run hive so that it starts when the PC boots, as it runs off an already windows core system API (Application Programmig interface), so allows CleanMem to give this API a soft of GUI in a scheduled stask which allows you to control it, in options like disable, change its default scheduled run time period from default 30mins to what ever timefame you want.

To get to the config window, you need to be logged on as admin if using a limted account, then goto Control Panel System and Maintanence > under admin tools click Scheduled tasks then the folder Task Scheduler Library and locate Clean System Memory and right click it and choose properties ( you will gain the screen below )

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/4918/77573809tx5.jpg

Then untick Run with higest Priviledges, then click the Triggers tab as in below pick

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2108/26303279os5.jpg

the you can change the scheduled time period for this app to run, then clic OK to save and close changes.

bigbazza · Oct 30, 2008

Ignore this post. I just re-read your post more thoroughly. :-o

change its default scheduled run time period from default 30mins to what ever time frame you want.
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@Halo@ from ClearMem link

The program will install and set it to run every 30 min via the windows task scheduler. Install it and your done! The program doesn't run in the background, once it does its job it closes and doesn't run again until the task scheduler runs it.
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Can it be set to less than every 30 minutes (users choice).
I haven't used it yet but 30 minutes seems far too long IMO. Bazza

souredspirit · Nov 1, 2008

thanks for all the help guys, one question though about cleanmem

in bios i have dram scrubbing turned on...is that similar/same to mem cleaning? and if so do i NEED both because i dont like installing tuner apps too often id rather just tweak my os.

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