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How do you view RAM usage in Vista?

vj8usa

Senior member
Is there any way to get ALL information on RAM usage in Vista? For instance, I left my computer for a while and came back to find that 99% of my RAM was in use, and everything was unbearably slow. I launched task manager (which took around a full minute) and turned on "show processes from all users", but the total RAM usages of all the processes added up to under 1GB (even though roughly 6GB was in use). I then opened resource monitor, which still didn't show everything. I later found out the RAM was being used by an app I was playing with, dvdremake, which slowly eats RAM for no reason on Vista64. However, task manager never showed dvdremake's exe using more than 40MB RAM.

Is there some utility that can show all details on RAM usage, so I can actually see where my RAM is being used?

On a side note, whenever my RAM usage hits 100% and I later bring it back down, the system is choppy and slow until a reboot. I'm guessing this has to do with the page file being accessed constantly since a lot of data was written to it when the RAM was all in use. Is there some way to force the page file back into RAM and speed things up again without a reboot?
 
Ctrl +Alt + Del Still works !! > Task manager > performance Tab

Start> Run > "taskman" (XP) "taskmgr" (Vista)


 
Wao! Didn't know about Process Explorer, really handy and much detailed then the usual Windows Task Manager. 🙂
 
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