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[Taxi_Driver]

What does Task Manager say is using the memory?

IE about 84,000k

76% physical memory usage.

No real cause for concern there, I'm using 91,000K right now as I type this.

Aside from uploading pics, are there any other speed issues when uploading that seem to show you aren't getting the upload speed offered by your ISP?

Also, who is your ISP, are you Cable or ADSL, and what package are you meant to have?

With this forum open I'm using 145,000k.

No ISP problems.

That doesnt really mean much, if that's what IE is using....you need to look at the performance tab...
look at total physical memory (in my case its 1039660 (1GB) ) and also look at available (my case its 317208 (317MB) )
So i've roughly got a 1/3 of total memory available

Ive got Chrome open with 5 tabs on the go, Outlook open with a mail message open as well and 2 other windows open as well......plus then you've got all your other open apps such as antivirus etc/etc all using memory.

The time to worry is when the available memory starts getting close to 0.....this when doze will start swapping between memory and the pagefile (read harddisk) .You will see lots of hard disk activity when it does this....this operation will slow down your lappy 

[Taxi_Driver]

Just noticed in another post, you said physical memory being used is 76%.......so if you've got 2GB at the mo......you've 500MB left.....You want to see what that figure is when you upload photo's......if its not much change....i wouldnt have thought you don't have enough memory imo......altho i seem to recall 64bit of doze7 min requirement is 2GB  :-/

[Auto Addict]

Well, I've upgraded it to the max, 8Gb.

Tremendous improvement

[Jimbob]

good result...

cant imagine you will need 8gb....but 2gb is a bit small for 64 bit win7 

[Auto Addict]

good result...

cant imagine you will need 8gb....but 2gb is a bit small for 64 bit win7 

I know, but as it was cheap enough, thought I'd go the whole way

[Jimbob]

I can certainly see the logic in that.

Its done now, and you wont need to worry about memory again on that pc 

[Broomies Mate]

One of my Laptops is running Windows7 32Bit Ultimate SP1.  It has a massive Intel Celeron 1.4GHz processor and a mind-blowing 512MB RAM, of which the OnBoard Intel Graphics Card uses a whopping 32MB.

I use it purely for Internet use, and it is blisteringly fast, just as quick as any other machine I have.

I use FireFox 5.0.1 with AdBlock Plus Add-On.

For those who are interested, the Windows Performance score for this particular laptop is an astounding 1.0.


The point I'm trying to make is that you dont need great Hardware for simple things like Internet Browsing, Social Networking, Photo Sharing etc.

Computer 'Experts' think I'm mad for running Win7 Ultimate on this laptop, but it's just as quick as Win XP and as long as I keep it clean of crap, it will stay just as fast.

I understand not everyone has the luxury of having separate machines for different tasks, Photo/Video editing is something I enjoy, which I wouldn't even attempt on this computer....... I dont even think I have enough Hard Disk Space for Photoshop! 

[Auto Addict]

One of my Laptops is running Windows7 32Bit Ultimate SP1.  It has a massive Intel Celeron 1.4GHz processor and a mind-blowing 512MB RAM, of which the OnBoard Intel Graphics Card uses a whopping 32MB.

I use it purely for Internet use, and it is blisteringly fast, just as quick as any other machine I have.

I use FireFox 5.0.1 with AdBlock Plus Add-On.

For those who are interested, the Windows Performance score for this particular laptop is an astounding 1.0.


The point I'm trying to make is that you dont need great Hardware for simple things like Internet Browsing, Social Networking, Photo Sharing etc.

Computer 'Experts' think I'm mad for running Win7 Ultimate on this laptop, but it's just as quick as Win XP and as long as I keep it clean of crap, it will stay just as fast.

I understand not everyone has the luxury of having separate machines for different tasks, Photo/Video editing is something I enjoy, which I wouldn't even attempt on this computer....... I dont even think I have enough Hard Disk Space for Photoshop! 

Mines 4.6

[Marks DTM Calib]

Important - If you swap for an SSD remember that if you defrag it you will knacker it. 

Not strictly true.
The reason you don't defrag an SSD is because it increases the number of read/write cycles, which in turn impacts on it's potential lifespan as they are limited to a finite amount of read/writes.

Having said that, an SSD isn't bothered how fragmented it is because the access times are sub 1ms thanks to direct access.
Flash memory is also advancing at a fair rate in the reliability stakes, the MTBF on my current SSD (Corsair C300 - 256GB) equates to 137 years of real life use and I'll be long gone before that time comes up.

A meaningless figure on Flash memory which in real use will never be achieved.

The reliability in flash is not down to the flash chips at all, its due to the fancy algorithims in the controllers chips which initiate the error correction and wear leveling.....its these that have improved (with Silicon Systems being the original trail blazer - now taken over by western digital)