Memory Usage?

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WestC07

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While playing around with the features of Google Desktop, I saw that you could select a system monitor feature. Well, upon doing that it shows what seems to be that half of my 1GB of memory is constantly being used! I'm not sure if I'm reading this right or not, so I've posted a copy of my desktop with the screenshot of GoogleDT and Task Manager, plus a list of processes that are running.

Desktop w/google & task manager:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SwampWise/Memory.jpg

Process list: (Overlapped to show all)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SwampWise/processes.jpg

Is it normal to have this amount of memory usage constantly? I'm running Windows XP MC edition, ram is 2x512 DDR2 PC4300 @ 266MHz.

I've started to notice that small simple things take longer to do now that what they ever should be (such as right clicking on an image or viewing a picture with windows picture and fax viewer).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Edit: Sorry for the small size of the images, apparently Photobucket resized them for me. If I need to post something better, I will.
 
That sounds normal for having 69 processes. You can limit what runs on startup by entering msconfig from the Run command, and disable what you dont need.

I only have 39 processes running on my computer, and thats with a bunch of apps open.
 
I would say that is a lot of processes for XP. I have only 25 average, down from like 45. You can go to run-msconfig-startup to see what you have automatically running when you turn your computer on. If you take out all that you don't need, you can start up faster and run better IMO. Also, I noticed on your desktop in the bottom right, it shows you have a whole load of programs running. Right click and exit the ones you don't need, because I believe they still run when they're there. Try that and see what happens, and tell us.
 
try uninstalling unused software from the control panel, that might help.

and try what the other guys said also.

you just have many things runing


my computer at work right now has like 52 processes runing,, and 500 out of 2000 of memory usage.

I'm not that good now that I think about it,, I'll have to kill some processes myself :D
 
Hey guys, thanks for the replies, and sorry for the late one. I've done a little bit of research and have been able to point out some of the specific programs that are hogging some of the memory.

Avast has 4 processes running totaling around 47MB of usage.
Win Live Msgr had 2 processes running (Msgr + LiveCall?) totaling 30 MB.
Firefox looks to be using 42MB.
A process called PCMService.exe that's installed on Dell laptops uses ~16MB
And... the multiple svchost.exe processes total ~55MB

That totals to almost 200MB in memory usage from daily use. This is with Steam and QuickSet not open, and Bluetooth Radio disabled. Also, I did uninstall some of the programs that I never use.

Here's a list of startup programs, any ideas of what I could uncheck from the list?
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/SwampWise/?action=view&current=startup.jpg

Thanks for the help.
 
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