so wtf can you do to reduce RAM use in Vista

[Mondain]

goddammit I just fucking installed it and it already uses 76% of my mere 1024 MBs of RAM with only Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Foobar loaded up!

already set the interface back to Windows classic, which pretty much makes it look like XP again, but is there any more clutter that I could do without to gain some extra RAM? cuz I feel like trying out Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

[Saint Cornelius]

there's no way "take your life" can be made applicable to this situation; but i'm going to go ahead and use it, regardless

[Vizzys]

I bookmarked this for when i grab a copy of vista:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=499870

[Van Cruncheon]

a) if there's RAM available and there are no high-pri processes going on, Vista will use that RAM for any low-pri or maintenance processes. it's called optimization. don't sweat it.

b) if you fire up a high-pri process -- a game -- vista will kill or hold those other processes and recover the memory they are using. when you're in a game, there's LESS OS memory footprint than XP. don't sweat it. let go and let vista, or something.

if yer gonna bitch about vista, bitch about the shitty nvidia driver support. that's just embarrassing.