TYLER AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS ALITTLE WHILE BACK..........I USE THAT PROGRAM FREERAMXP PRO IT SHOWS MOST OF THE TIME THAT I HAVE ANYWHERE FROM 200MB - 300MB OF RAM AVAILABLE.AS TYLER SUGGESTED THAT I TRY TO FREE UP SOME RESOURCES LIKE IN MY START-UP,ETC......I HAVE 512 MB INSTALLED........I HAVE BEEN TRYING ABIT OF EVERYTHING TO IMPROVE THIS I'M LOST ON WHAT TO DO NEXT!!!!!??????? :helpme: SOMETHING IS OBVIOUSLY USING IT.AND IN TASK MANAGER MY CPU USAGE USUALLY SHOW 2%-3% WHEN I'M SITTING IDLE.

Have you cleared out your startuplist. Defrag your hard drive etc?

And remember XP uses quite a bit as well. I use the same program and i'm currently using about 300MB RAM and i only have my browser running

Originally Posted by Vidster

And remember XP uses quite a bit as well. I use the same program and i'm currently using about 300MB RAM and i only have my browser running

OK I DIDNT REALIZE THAT XP USED ALOT OF IT SO MINE IS SITTING ABOUT THE SAME AS YOURS THANKS FOR YOUR HELP VIDSTER AND TYLER

"300" Mbs is quite normal as previously mentioned. XP will progressively use more Ram until you exceed 512. After 512, you will note that XP no longer "gouges" you for available ram. @ 1GB. the usage will remain the same at or about 300mbs.

Originally Posted by chopper_man2001

TYLER AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS ALITTLE WHILE BACK..........I USE THAT PROGRAM FREERAMXP PRO IT SHOWS MOST OF THE TIME THAT I HAVE ANYWHERE FROM 200MB - 300MB OF RAM AVAILABLE.AS TYLER SUGGESTED THAT I TRY TO FREE UP SOME RESOURCES LIKE IN MY START-UP,ETC......I HAVE 512 MB INSTALLED........I HAVE BEEN TRYING ABIT OF EVERYTHING TO IMPROVE THIS I'M LOST ON WHAT TO DO NEXT!!!!!??????? :helpme: SOMETHING IS OBVIOUSLY USING IT.AND IN TASK MANAGER MY CPU USAGE USUALLY SHOW 2%-3% WHEN I'M SITTING IDLE.

Have a read of the following link, chopper. There are a lot of services that can be disabled in XP. However, please pay particular attention to their dependencies : -

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Originally Posted by Jazz

Have a read of the following link, chopper. There are a lot of services that can be disabled in XP. However, please pay particular attention to their dependencies : -

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

OK THANKS JAZZ I WILL CHECK IT OUT

Originally Posted by chopper_man2001

OK THANKS JAZZ I WILL CHECK IT OUT

No worries............. 8-)

I only have 256 Mb ram in my computer ant i get about 120 free. Shutting off services is one way to reduce the amount of memory being used. The programs you install that run the background it one of the biggest memory killers there is! Shout off all the programs that you don't need running all the time or if you can use alternative programs that aren't so big. For example, instead of running Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and AIM all at once, use an Instance Messanger that can connect to them all. These programs are usually smaller then anyone of the other messengers. There all kind of things that you can do like that. If I were you and I had all that memory, I probably wouldn';t worry about it much unless it is really slowing down your computer.

Echoing what Craig said, cutting down on taskbar apps is a good idea, another smart way to go, is to run a program like Ad-Aware, you might have spyware on your computer, which is using memory / cpu cycles.

I'm running on 512 MB ram, and a 3.0HT cpu...
currently 46 processes (including Trillian, antivirus firewall, audi/video drivers, IIS, php, and MySQL) it's using 365MB of Ram and ~4% cpu usage.