Vista doesn't use that many resources unless you mean ram, which is used by design. It's one of the major things that makes it so better than XP.
The superfetch does a good job at making sure all your most common apps are stored in free ram which is dynamicaly flushed if a progran suddenly needs it. Thats why it appears to use so many resources.
I don't know where you are located but here I can get ram for $10 per GB for DDR2 6400 ram.
Even 4gb of Corsair 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Twinx Memory costs less than $150.
My puter being too old doesn't support DDR2 or DDR3 ram, But even 2gb of old 333mhz ram oc'd to 400mhz makes vista fly.
The superfetch does a good job at making sure all your most common apps are stored in free ram which is dynamicaly flushed if a progran suddenly needs it. Thats why it appears to use so many resources.
I don't know where you are located but here I can get ram for $10 per GB for DDR2 6400 ram.
Even 4gb of Corsair 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Twinx Memory costs less than $150.
My puter being too old doesn't support DDR2 or DDR3 ram, But even 2gb of old 333mhz ram oc'd to 400mhz makes vista fly.