rowanphilip
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It depends on how much you have running at any given time. The more programs you use the more memory required to keep your computer running smoothly.I have 6GB and mine is always within a few percent of 50% also. This remains the same no matter how many programs I have running. I think this display is bogus, just giving us numbers that look good so we won't bother MS support.
One of the "secrets" Win 8 runs faster is that it keeps in RAM as much as it can, so it does not use much slower disk for that. Empty RAM is wasted RAM.
Yeah, remember old "Unload DLLs" trick in XP and before ? Win7 did it much better but W8 manages them dynamically almost to perfection, excluding an occasional "Memory leak" that is difficult to diagnose and fix, caused by a bad program or driver. Some Intel network drivers seem to cause it a lot.One of the "secrets" Win 8 runs faster is that it keeps in RAM as much as it can, so it does not use much slower disk for that. Empty RAM is wasted RAM.
Very true.
And this isn't a new idea. In fact all modern operating systems do this and have done so for a long time. All versions of Windows released in the last 20 years (actually somewhat longer) follow this principle. It is just that Windows 8 does it more efficiently than older systems. The memory manager always tries to find some use for as much memory as possible, always with the goal of maximizing performance.
On SSD it works without any hindrance but on the other hand it's not really needed with it's speed etc.Superfetch is way too overrated, it can actually slow down some application in order to start others, but you are not in control, you let Windows to decide, what you want, sometimes it is good, sometimes not.
Yeah, remember old "Unload DLLs" trick in XP and before ?