Alvin.C i like some of your views but i have to disagree. it's not a bad thing in itself that a high percentage of memory is being used, the issue is that it is being used at idle. while some of this is precaching from what i've seen of Vista some of it is also memory leaks and just pure windows bloat.
Riznarf, welcome to TF
i think i'm going to like you. i installed Vista on my secondary PC two days ago, mainly to get a feel for it so that i can troubleshoot any PC that may have it installed. since then media centre has tried to give me a seizure (by strobing between a dark blue and a white screen), i had a BSOD, windows detected neither of my NICs, media centre has crashed randomly 5 times and worst of all i almost smashed my 21" Trinitron in frustration when i found that the power button icon (of course used to access the shutdown menu in XP) now automatically puts the PC in a standby state.
afterthought: it also took me approximately 30 seconds before i had had enough of windows confirming whether or not i would like to use a windows process :mad: