How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Vista “Out of Memory” errors
You just can’t seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files.
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17.10.2007 Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 Resolve Windows Vista Out of Memory Errors
Windows Vista "out of memory" errors are intimately connected with the way the operating system manages virtual address space.
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29.8.2007 Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
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23.10.2007 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 Release Unused Memory with VC RamCleaner
One of the main factors that causes computer performance slowness could be due to memory leak whereby memory is not being released properly after it was used.
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13.10.2009 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years.
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18.4.2007 eBoostr - Boost Windows XP with Flash Memory
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP.
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14.11.2007 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computer’s memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Microsoft announces 512MB Xbox 360 Memory Unit
t's about time Microsoft announced that 512MB Memory Unit, which will land at $49 and at the outset come preloaded with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (huzzah!).
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5.3.2007 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007 Windows 7 RTM chkdsk memory issue isn’t a showstopper
Windows 7 RTM contains what appears to be a memory leak bug that occurs when the chkdsk /R command is initiated on a non-system volume.
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8.8.2009 Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded
Microsoft informed that in certain scenarios, Windows 7 computers going into hibernation could present a stop error to the end user.
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8.9.2009 Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Windows 7 RTM ReadyBoost 256 GB of Memory Cache Support
Users running the latest iteration of the Windows client will be able to add an extra 256 GM of memory cache in order to handle the overload on the physical RAM installed on their computers.
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12.10.2009 Minimem - Automatically Lower, Optimize or Reduce the Memory Usage for Any Running Program at Interval
Nowadays modern computers comes with high memory, from 1GB to 4GB and some even up to 8GB!
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6.8.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009Microsoft denies Sony's Vista hardware claims
Microsoft has denied Sony's
claim that the current release
of Vista supports neither
Intel's Turbo Memory
technology nor hybrid hard
drives.
The spat
between the companies arose
after Sony revealed to
ZDNet.co.uk that it would not
include Turbo Memory an
embedded flash memory module
formerly known by its code
name Robson in this summer's
Vaio notebooks because Vista
will not allow the benefits of
Turbo Memory to be utilised
until Service Pack 1 (SP1) of
the operating system is
released later this year.
Turbo Memory is an
optional component of Intel's
Centrino Pro/Duo platform
(previously known as Santa
Rosa), which makes use of
Vista features such as
ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive.
These features use
non-volatile "third-stage"
memory alongside a computer's
RAM and traditional hard drive
to boost performance and
start-up time. Most
manufacturers are ready to
release Centrino Pro notebooks
that include Turbo Memory,
although HP has turned it down
due to worries over cost
efficiency and the limitations
it places on users who want to
use external flash memory to
boost performance...
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07.06.2007Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
There are several
relevant components to the Windows memory subsystem. In this guide we will put special emphasis on the hard drive, processor and RAM, taking you
through a variety of settings to optimally configure these and hopefully end up with an overall smoother running system.
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23.10.2007Changes afoot in Vista SP1 RC0/Windows 2008 RC0 kernel memory dumps
With the advent of Windows Vista there are changes made in how the operating system determines if it can take a kernel memory dump or not. Starting
in Vista the amount of memory allocated for kernel mode could vary dynamically. If the pagefile is not big enough, switching to minidump at dump time
cant be done easily. So the dump stack initialization is happening at the time of boot where this check for the pagefile size is done.
What does this mean? It means if you don't have a pagefile as large as physical memory at boot, and your system is configured for a kernel
dump, you'll end up getting a minidump. If you permit me to opine, this makes sense in the client space where a valid dump is more critical than a
corrupted kernel dump, as the results usually would get uploaded to Microsoft via WERCON or another mechanism. If further triage is needed MSFT could
contact you with the ability to setup a kernel capture.
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16.10.2007Windows Vista: How much memory is enough?
Usually a hardware upgrade isn't required for a new operating system. Yet if you are planning to upgrade Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows
Vista, it's almost impossible to avoid a PC overhaul.
Aside from things like the speed of your processor (minimum 800MHz), and
using a videocard that supports Vista's sublime Aeroglass graphical interface (DirectX 9), the most important and limiting factor is going to be
memory. If the PC doesn't have enough RAM to satisfy Vista's intense thirst, you'll be the slowest thing on two wheels. For the record, Vista's
minimum memory requirement is 512MB, though realistically that should be doubled.
Much of the focus on Microsoft Windows Vista
has revolved around its steep graphical interface requirements. Vista craves graphics cards that are DirectX 9.0C compatible with 128MB of memory to
run its AeroGlass feature. Next is the large drive space requirement, sitting at 15GB just for its installation files, Vista is a fat OS.
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29.08.2007Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard
Digitimes reports that first-tier notebook manufacturers are
increasing the standard
installed memory from the current 1 GB to 4GB. They claim the move is an attempt to shore up the costs of DRAM chips, which are currently
depressed because of a glut in market. The glut is supposedly due to
increased manufacturing capacity and
the slow adoption of Microsoft's Vista operating system. The proposed move is especially interesting, given that
32-bit Vista and XP cannot access 4 GB of memory. They have a
practical 3.1 — 3.3 GB limit. With Vista SP1 it seems that Microsoft has decided to fix the problem
by reporting the installed memory rather than the
available memory.
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22.12.2007Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al.
This experiment graphs the
memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera)
over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory
usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory
usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS.
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21.06.2009New theme coming for Vista
Mentioned at a dinner last
night with Jim Allchin was
that a new theme is coming to
replace the Non-Aero Theme for
Vista Capable PCs (PC's that
cannot run Windows Aero).
Also mentioned were
some other great features
coming from Vista, Restart
Manager and Windows
ReadyBoost.
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25.05.2006Tracing the memory leak: Is it Firefox 3?
Yesterday, we mentioned that we've been noticing recent versions of Firefox, including 3.0.5, have exhibited the memory leak problems that used to
plague Firefox 2. We are noticing this on both Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1.
We'd also noticed that systems where the add-on Tab Mix Plus
was installed, did not appear to exhibit the same memory leak. Today, we uninstalled Tab Mix Plus (reluctantly, because we like it) from one system.
On that system, the memory use pattern has
changed, perhaps moderated, though we're not sure the leak has gone away. It now appears to be
slower than in our tests yesterday, and from time to time, something in Firefox does clean up parts of memory from time to time. In one test,
we had two Firefox windows open with seven tabs open in one of them, a dozen in the other -- a pretty full slate. Task Manager is showing us that
Firefox grabs memory in one-megabyte chunks per second, for about a minute at a time, and then leveling back out to about 300,000 KB.
So if
it's not a leak right now, at least it's a
fight, and we'll let you know what else we find...
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20.01.2009Windows Vista: The Facts
When choosing a new operating system, the first thing many people ask is, "What will it help me do?" In answer, much of this site shows you the
great experiences Windows Vista helps you have. The second thing many people say is, "Prove that it's better." In particular, many of you have
asked about performance and safety improvements. The following information provides specific proof that Windows Vista is faster and safer.
- The
majority of Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute, which can be an improvement over Windows XP boot times. And the new Windows Vista
sleep and resume features can bring your PC to life in a snapin fact, the vast majority of all Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than
6 seconds.
- PCs running Windows Vista that are equipped with 512 MB memory experience a performance boost of up to 40 percent with Windows
ReadyBoost. Just plug a USB flash drive into your computer, and Windows Vista will automatically start using it to speed up memory access to important
data.
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20.01.2008Lexar to put Wi-Fi on a memory card
The memory chip manufacturer will use technology from Eye-Fi to add network connectivity for users of its own memory cards...
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11.01.2008Dell, Intel, and Microsoft to push 'ReadyBoost,' Hybrid Drives
Companies including Dell,
Microsoft, and Intel announced
on Wednesday the formation of
a new group to promote the
adoption of nonvolatile
memory, or NAND flash, in PC
storage applications.
The Non-Volatile Memory
Host Controller Interface
(NVMHCI) Working Group, as
it's being called, will be
chaired by Intel and will
provide a standard software
programming interface for
nonvolatile memory subsystems.
The group says the
interface will be used by
operating system drivers to
access NAND flash memory
storage in the applications
such as hard drive caching and
solid-state drives. Today, PCs
already use this technology;
"ReadyBoost" is what
Microsoft calls its Vista disk
caching technology that makes
computers running the OS more
responsive by using flash
memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD
card, or other forms of flash
memory. ..
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31.05.2007New Qimonda GDDR5 Memory Promises 3x Performance of GDDR3
In advance of its likely acceptance by JEDEC as an international standard for memory implementations, Qimonda said today it is now sampling the first
Graphics Double Data Rate 5 memory in 512 Mb modules...
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01.11.2007Windows Machines with More than 4 GB of RAM Have Limited Shut-Down Options
Windows Vista computers that come equipped with more than 4 GB of system memory have limited shut-down options. Essentially, the Hibernate option is
no longer available on Vista machines that feature in excess of 4 GB of RAM. This scenario affects both the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions of Vista,
but at the same time also Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has confirmed that the issue is related to the large quantity of random access
memory.
"This issue occurs because hibernation is disabled on computers that
have more than 4 GB of RAM. Hibernation
requires sufficient disk space to contain the contents of the computer's memory. Performance is poor on a computer that has more than 4 GB of memory
and that has support for hibernation. Therefore, Microsoft has disabled support for hibernation on such computers," the Redmond company
revealed.
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18.03.2008Inside the Improved Firefox 3 Memory Manager
Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the
quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about fixing memory leaks, it involved solving memory fragmentation issues as well,
as Windows and most other operating system allocates memory in blocks and may not "see" small enough fragments of memory as usable in practice.
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12.03.2008The Ultimate Intel Core i7 Memory Performance Guide
Today we are going to look at how various memory frequencies, timings, and configurations influence the memory bandwidth and the real-world
performance of Core i7 processors. This is particularly important to not only help you get the most out of your Core i7 CPU, but to potentially save
you a lot of money. After all, it is possible to configure a Core i7 processor with triple-channel memory operating at 1066, 1333 and 1600MHz, or
even faster. But what are the benefits of using more aggressively clocked memory? With the new Core i7 platform, DDR3 should finally get its chance
to shine. As noted before, the Core i7 features an on-die memory controller with support for triple-channel DDR3 memory.
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10.12.2008Intel Nehalem to play nice with enthusiast memory
Intel's switch to an integrated memory controller with the upcoming Nehalem core will offer enthusiasts to finally take advantage of fast memory
devices “ which are constrained by the front side bus (FSB ) today. The memory controller bandwidth is catching up with performance memory, which
means that we should see dramatically improved memory performance once the new CPU arrives.
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15.05.2008IBM quietly takes a stake in Spansion's racetrack memory
After quietly taking an equity stake in two-year-old startup flash memory manufacturer Spansion, IBM now plans to augment its own still emerging,
futuristic "racetrack" memory with flash memory dubbed MirrorBit...
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30.04.2008TweakVista Beta Now Available
TweakVista is a utility that enables
users to optimize the
performance and behavior of
Windows Vista. The program has
been designed to allow both
casual, non-technical users to
safely use it as well as
contain a host of advanced
features for power users to
dig into the internals of
Windows Vista.
The
feature-packed utility
includes features such as:
- Security Handling:
Users can now easily and
safely adjust the way Windows
handles security prompting
including the new UAC (User
Account Control)
-
Memory Optimization:
TweakVista knows which
start-up services different
types of users will typically
use and offers recommendations
on what services to disable.
Users can easily switch
between different profiles
(including the default) based
on their needs to maximize
performance and memory use.
- Resource Control: Tweak
Vista has several features for
keeping an eye on and flagging
programs that use excessive
amounts of resources (memory,
CPU, or system handles) as
well as integrating seamlessly
with built in hardware
diagnostic reports...
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21.06.2007Is Vista x86 a Trojan Horse for Windows7 (Vienna) after-all?
OK so here's the question
"what does it take to kill
the 32bit platform and
Microsoft's Windows Vista OS,
not even a year out of its
beta code"?
Answer: 4GB ram + GPU with
on board memory
I
take an alternative and purely
speculative look at the Vista
32bit 4GB Memory limit. And
why it may become the most
compelling reason to upgrade
to Windows 7 (Vienna) and an
answer to why Microsoft
allowed Vista to take 5 years
of development to get to
RTM
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02.08.2007IBM Announces Memory Chip Advancement
A new semiconductor alloy
jointly developed by IBM and
its partners will spur the
development of faster and
smaller memory chips. The
companies say the advancements
would lead to smaller chips
than currently possible with
flash memory...
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