That’s right I just got myself a new computer and put Windows vista on it but it seems that this new operating system grabs tons of memory from my system. From what I have read on Internet articles windows vista is a memory hungry operating system, apparently it has a fancy mechanism (superfetch) that pre-loads applications that you used the most in memory so they are ready when you need them, it also uses memory for cache. Apparently it uses so much memory than the previews version of windows that they have designed a cool mechanism to use your USB thumb drive to extend the storage where windows puts its cache, It won’t use your USB key chain as RAM but it will use it to store cache  and increase the read speed when reading from cache that is in the USB thumb drive, as opposed to reading it from the hard drive. For what I’ve heard is a good idea to use use a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 for RAM to USB thumb drive memory, so if you have a computer with 2 Gigabytes of memory, its recommended to use USB thumb drive of 2 or 4 Gigabytes.

  My computer has 4 Gigabytes of ram and right now I am using 40% of it. usually when the computer is idle it takes at least 25% (1GB) all the time as you can see from the picture below. So if you are planning to go with vista and want to have the best user experience possible, remember this, get tons of memory for  your new computer. 

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