CJ your RAM status seems OK to me. You say there are no Programs running. But there are lots of Processes running such as refreshing the RAM itself, the anit-virus Service, perhaps a firewall, keeping the Display going, monitoring all the Interrupts and the hardware states etc.
About 50% in use is reasonable. Bear in mind that the less frequently used contents of RAM are continually paged out to the Pagefile.sys in the C: \ Drive on the Hard Disk. This Pagefile.sys should be 2-3 times the RAM. This Paging is a continual process where a lot of the workload is simply devoted to maintain the status quo.
[Edit: This was my 1000th post since the counter was reset. But a good few hundred were lost during the rebuild.]
Last edited by fobotcso; 6th March 2004 at 03:50.