C:Amie, might I ask your assistance with KB hotfix installation?

I've had similar problems with vga doing state changes, fine in 2d but bsod in 3d, or fine in vga but bsod in 1080p. I replaced it and all of the issues went away.

At least I was fine with 7600GS...

Same errors with 7600GS and even some new ones - "Driver mismanages system PTEs" after trying to change resolution while having Standard VGA driver.

Reinstallation is needed.

If you're going to bother, I suggest that it's time to go through the Windows 7 pain (especially as XP x64 is never going to receive security updates again).

You might find that it solves all of your problems with its new hardware layer.

After installing 7, wiping off all Segoe fonts and all cleartype settings and applying classic scheme, I feel like I am fine.

It also looks like that CS1.6 has a bug - it crashes in 7 as well.

After restart I have 7000 MB "available" judging by Resource Monitor (8GB installed). At the same time Photoshop is able to use up to 7200MB as it says.

Is there a way of decreasing memory footprint? I know that some things like SuperFetch consume memory but IRC it should be "available", i.e. will be freed upon request.

Reading of http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memo... gives me an idea of that Windows 8 is better in this matter.

The footprint of XPx64 was 400MB.

Edited by Alt Bass 2014-05-24 2:05 PM

Superfetch will free when necessary, yes.

One thing to keep in mind is that between XP and 7, the way Windows reports free memory has changed. There are a lot of services that you can kill if you are desperate, however, your blog is correct, 8 can offer tighter memory management. Why are you up to that you need to monitor it that tightly?

I did not find many of those. I disabled maybe three or four, other seem to sustain functions I may use.




I sometimes use all those 8GBs and some extra space might save some of my time in future.

But well, it is not required.

I feel like I will migrate to WIndows 8, 7 seems too sluggish.

I am also no more able to tile a group of windows using the taskbar, I may only use Task Manager for that.

Sluggish? Interesting, I could not see much difference between XP and 7. If that's what you see, that's what you see. 8 is supposedly faster, it certainly is to boot - if that is important to you.

If you only need to layout 2 windows, you can win key + left/right them

No, 2 windows is to few. I liked to tile all 20 firefox windows and select from them something needed like a hacker in the movies.

Hydravision might help me though.

Edited by Alt Bass 2014-05-30 6:06 PM

Searchfilterhost ate 8GB of memory. Do I have right to be surprised?

How did it eat 8GB when you only have 8GB, lol?

If you don't want full text search, just weed the services out.

As with OS X, after initial install, it is going to try and index all of your data and just as with Spotlight, Windows Search can be just as brutal. Once it's done, it should clear down completely.

1) Commit charge was 8GB.
2) It swapped out all the things I liked.


Once I decided that I might use NTFS compression to spare some gigs of two mostly empty 64GB virtual drive files. XP x64 sais "applying attributes" and kept saying this for 5 hours. After that it gave an error and I found that second file did not get compressed. After reboot it got compressed.

Why am I saying this: I had a humble dream of living in the year when this is done quietly in background with sub-idle priority.

Edited by Alt Bass 2014-06-04 8:40 PM

You used NTFS compression on a VHD O.o that must have been painful.

I must admit, it is odd that it has done this. I see similar things with Windows Update on Windows 8(.1) thrashing RAM, disk and processor through the trusted installer service. People are even saying that it's upsetting the i7 Surface Pro 3! Why it would need to create a catalogue in RAM of 8GB is perplexing. Do you have a very large meta data tagged library?