Quote Originally Posted by deathman20 View Post
Yup... Its very similar to Vista itself.

32-bit uses a little less at roughly 22-25% of ram and 64-bit uses 25-30% on bootup. My friend has 64-bit and 2gigs of ram and he sits around 26% usage after full bootup, and I have 4gigs of ram and I sit around 29% full usage after bootup.

Windows utilizes the resources it has, and the ram takes less power than going back and forth between the HDD's since the ram has to be powered all the time anyways. If it could I'd tell it to keep such and such programs in ram and use even more of it.
prefetching should do that automatically if its enabled , my pc boots , loads outlook express , X-chat and itunes faster than a fresh Xp ever did

people complain about it using the ram that they have , they dont realise that it scales.