What's your memory usage at startup ?

[jobauer]

Hi guys...

I was just wondering : when you've just started up your pc, what's the memory usage ? Just the OS, no apps running...

I use XP home, and I've tried to disable all unnecessary services that sucked up my memory (thx btw for all the tips and links i've found here :) )

The only apps that I let autostart are : Nvidia drivers and Pc Cillin Firewall and Antivirus. Now, on a fresh boot up, I get around 84 MB of memory used (shown in task manager). that's WAY BETTER than before, but still sound a little high. What do you think ? What's your magic number ?:)

[Taisho]

I use Windows 2000 and my magic number is 110 MB, although i tweaked up my system to maximum.....

here is the list of running services at startup:

Symantec Settings Manager
Symantec Event Manager
SAVScan
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Plug & Play
Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect
Protected Storage
Event Log
Workstation
Telephony (required for my DSL)
RAS-Verbindungsverwaltung (dont know the english term)
Network Connections
COM+ Event System

isnt much at all, huh?

my taskmanager shows this:

Explorer
ccApp (-> norton)
svchost
NAVAPSVC (-> norton)
ccSetMgr (-> norton)
svchost
services
ccEvtMgr (-> norton)
taskmgr
csrss
USDM (-> Epox Monitoring Tool)
winlogon
SAVSCAN
lsass
smss
System

does anyone know why all the same my memory usage (110 MB) is such high?

[electromagnetic]

72MB, and I believe I had it down to 60 something at one point, but a few services got turned back on for various reasons. 110MB is good, considering a default install uses upwards of 130MB.

[electromagnetic]

Protected Storage, COM+, and Plug & Play can all be turned off if you want to go lower.

[Taisho]

Originally posted by electromagnetic
72MB, and I believe I had it down to 60 something at one point, but a few services got turned back on for various reasons. 110MB is good, considering a default install uses upwards of 130MB.

ok, but i tweaked services and everything else to the maximum, there is no room left...so the memory usage should at least be around 80MB considering e.g. i got windows 2000 which is supposed to be less memory using then win XP......

so something is wrong here, but what????

[Taisho]

i found the leak, its norton antivirus 2004!!
i deinstalled it, and now i got only 70 MB memory usage after start up......

now i will install AntiVir and ok....

[secretweapon]

123M with windows Xp pro sp1& norton systemworks