Yeah, Vista will often use much more memory than Xp, and not only because it has a larger footprint.
Coding Horror has a good article (
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html ) on the subject.
Windows Xp didn't make very good use of memory for caching, while vista does alot more caching, which in theory should allow programs to start faster. If it needs more available memory for an active program it will shuffle things around. Vista just makes sure none of your ram is being wasted.
psychic stalkerWe don't need to rehash this. We've been over it eighty goddamn times this year and I'm sick of it repeatedly coming up.
Vista doesn't "use more resources." It
takes advantage of otherwise-unused resources,
the way every other OS besides Windows has been doing for decades. Vista doesn't "use more memory," it allows system caching to use more available memory resources,
which gets instantly evicted when more free memory is required; which other operating systems have been doing for decades - it's called a "cache." Vista doesn't "waste video resources," it takes advantage of 3D hardware that for the last several years has otherwise gone completely unused. The redesigned sound and video driver subsystems is a
long-overdue overhaul that should have been done in XP. The new UAC protection is also
long overdue, and is something that
every other OS has been doing for decades.
And this is a good thing.
Please stop making mountains of mole-hills.