Memory usage

[TomServo]

What are you guys (anybody I guess) getting on your memory usage when running XP and no foregrround apps. I have used the disable paging executive registry setting and I am running coolmon to check my memory usage. I have noticed that even when the PC is idle and I have just started, my memory usage (for physical RAM by the way) seems to be about 25% of my installed RAM.
My laptop has 512 in it and it seems to hover around 130 meg in use and my workstation at home has a gig in it and it tends to sit around 250meg in use.
Does this seem to be typical or is there some other tweaks I might be able to use to free up more short of installing software that is suppose to do this.

 

[Qumahlin]

well by using the disable paging executive command, you are telling windows to copy that file into ram and not onto a swapfile...so that is a chunk of ram gone right there

 

[DarkSiege]

You can use some apps to free up ram. You can get them here 🙂

 

[Zedric]

Originally posted by DarkSiege
You can use some apps to free up ram. You can get them here 🙂

Um, most of those apps are made to swap out memory into the page file to free up ram. Isn't that kind of hard without a page file?