I'm just not having these experiences with Vista. Vista is designed to
use all available memory (instead of 'saving it') by aggressively
caching. Mind you, I don't like the HD churning that goes on during a
fresh boot, but despite some interface quirks, I find Vista quite
likable and fairly reliable. It works well even on low grade integrated
graphics (such as the Intel GMA 3100). I don't really see much CPU
usage or RAM usage either for DWM or explorer, although I did a fresh
install on a newer Core 2 Duo laptop. With ram being so cheap nowadays,
does being a 'ram hog' matter that much? You can even get laptops with
2 gb of ram built in for under $700. I think part of the problem is
that the P4 architecture is such a poor performer, C2D is an order of
magnitude better. Even XP drags on a 3.4ghz P4. Vista is quite fast on
a lowly 2ghz C2D.
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Scott Cassaday wrote:
> We have been testing vista at IMC since may.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Richard Wiggins <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2007 11:16 AM
> *Subject:* [MSUNAG] Windows Vista Aero transparency CPU costs
>
> I upgraded to Windows Vista a couple months ago because I needed
> to experience it in order to write about it and understand what
> customers are going through.
>
> My Thinkpad Z61t has been sluggish compared to running XP,
> something documented in the trade press. This morning I was
> looking at Task Manager to see what proceses were eating up CPU.
> A module called dwm.exe was consistently taking up 12% or so of CPU.
>
> Turns out this is the Desktop Window Manager, which handles the
> transparency effects and other new features such as seeing a
> preview of a window by mousing over its place on the Taskbar.
>
> I disabled the transparency effect and dwm.exe fell to using about
> 5-6% of CPU.
>
> As it happens, I can't stand the transparency effect. It makes it
> harder to discern the top edge of the current window and it costs
> a lot of CPU. Others using or deploying Vista may want to try
> turning it off.
>
> /rich
>
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