On February 06 2010 10:11 R1CH wrote:
It's pretty easy, in fact that was an old PC, a Pentium 2.4GHz with 2 GB RAM. A lot of people just never multitask and think that because a program is open it must be slowing down the rest of the system so they are paranoid about closing everything. It's usually only web browsers with pages of flash / javascript open that use any kind of background resources. I have 56 things on my taskbar right now with 0% CPU usage. You are likely to exhaust the desktop heap before running out of RAM, which you can simply adjust in the registry (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184802).
It's pretty easy, in fact that was an old PC, a Pentium 2.4GHz with 2 GB RAM. A lot of people just never multitask and think that because a program is open it must be slowing down the rest of the system so they are paranoid about closing everything. It's usually only web browsers with pages of flash / javascript open that use any kind of background resources. I have 56 things on my taskbar right now with 0% CPU usage. You are likely to exhaust the desktop heap before running out of RAM, which you can simply adjust in the registry (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184802).
I don't think anyone knows this. You should make us a computer info thread where you debunk all the stupid things we do.