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Save some vista memory.
Well after allot of time I noticed that i had vista giving me only 3 mb free the rest it was caching. So I did my research and the culprit was Superfetch. A lil bit about Superfetch.

The SuperFetch service in Windows Vista pre-loads your system's memory with the applications that you use most often. This makes launching of those applications much faster, but it might be an unwanted behavior for system tweaker's or gamers.

Well I know that applies to me so I did it, and this is how.

Note that many people don't recommend disabling Superfetch.

Open up Services in Control Panel or by typing services.msc into the Start menu search or run boxes.

Find the Superfetch service.

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Double-click on Superfetch in the list to open up the properties, and then change the drop-down to "Disabled". You can also click Stop to immediately turn it off

This guide was from http://www.howtogeek.com

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RE: Save some vista memory.
There's probably not too much use for this, unless you want to show off that you have a lot of free RAM or something, since SuperFetch is designed to make your computer faster (and the RAM will be deallocated when needed).
But thanks for posting anyway. :)
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amzter
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RE: Save some vista memory.
Your welcome. I have found that my performance has increased since disabling superfetch.

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