Like I said then you'll run 3rd party programs the ram will decreases and Windows 10 wont have enough Ram to run smoothly.
Windows used unused memory and give priority to Applications, if not enough RAM , then windows will use pagefile.
Install Windows XP on a computer and you’ll probably see it using several hundred megabytes of memory when the system is idle. Install Windows 7 on that same computer and you’ll likely see Windows 7 using several gigabytes of memory in the same situation.
So what’s going on? Is Windows XP just a lighter, faster operating system? Are modern operating systems bloated and wasteful with memory? Not quite.
RAM is more plentiful than it was when Windows XP was the shiny new operating system, and modern operating systems take advantage of it. Modern operating systems use your computer’s RAM as a cache for frequently accessed files and program data.
In Windows, this feature is known as SuperFetch, which was introduced in Windows Vista. SuperFetch watches the applications you use and loads commonly-used application files and libraries into your computer’s RAM before you need them. When you launch an application, Windows loads the application’s files from your RAM instead of reading them from disk, which is a slow process. This speeds up application launching and generally makes your computer faster and more responsive.
Why It’s Good That Your Computer’s RAM Is Full
you want compare things :
1- use Win7 with the average available hardware when it was released (Pentium 3, 2-4gb RAM), check the resources usage and lightness.
2- compare win10 with the average hardware at the moment (mostly i5-i7, 6-16gb RAm), check the resources usage and lightness
You dont compare modern OS on old hardware, and old OS on modern hardware. are you serious?
run a modern game in a Celeron , it won't even start. You must compare things properly. this is what hardware requirements are made for; and those mentioned by MS are the absolute minimum ones
to run Windows not to have a blazing fast Windows; you must at least double the amount of RAM and use a higher cpu.
Yes, it does. The beginner mistake is to use that metric out of context, which is what you're contending with and not relevant here.
The more RAM an OS uses, the less RAM available for applications (what the OS is there for; we don't run Windows to run Windows; we run Windows to run software).
yes Theorically, now how many open applications you open at same times 20? I barely have 2-3 open at same time.
i have only 6gb RAM and i barely goes above 50% RAM usage with Chrome and Words open. the Win10 alone use 20-30%. so no, OS RAM usage doesn't matter if you know how to use your OS. what matter is the hardware specifications on where you put the said OS.
Anyone who does that has no idea how Windows works or how they are hindering its performance.
you misunderstood me, i pointed the article to demonstrate than RAM is faster and is
made to be used. However you have some interesting uses from RAM Disk, especially in term of privacy or security (because datas won't stay once the computer is shut down) ; but this is another topic.
if i want pure performance, i personally won't use a software-made RAM disk, but rather a RAM-based SSD for maximal speed (if i could afford it) .
Besides, you've gone completely off the topic's context here, which is 10 vs. 7 on old machines
which is itself irrelevant, because you don't compare them on old machines as i said above, you compare them based on hardware available at the moment the OS was released.
Rather than buy memory for a trick that was effective in 1990, buy an SSD (still not for a 10+-year old computer though).
indeed as you said SSD if your hardware can support it..., if you don't ? buy RAM, anyway you still have some use with software RAM Disk. Not saying modern RAM transfert speed is 10-15 times faster than a modern SSD.
Performance ("lightness") is a culmination of all of the above, to include the OS's ability to adapt to it's user--a capability that Microsoft has been continuously developing. Performance is largely a function of efficiency and dropping Aero alone was a boost to efficiency.
OS adapt to the user? the user
has to adapt to what the OS
can manage. If i take your statement to the letter, so i can open all my application, run 20 high graphic games, 1000 browser tabs , and expect my OS to deliver me fast performance...will never happen.
MS just calibers Windows' performance based on the applications used (to a certain limit), but at the end it is like everything , it is the user decisions that affect the OS; like it is the user decision that affect how the security of the OS will be effective or not.
stupid user , bad results.
That's performance; we didn't even touch security, which, in a security forum would be paramount. Given that 7 doesn't even have the capability to implement security features 10 has, yes, again, it is outdated.
on this i agree, win7 is weaker compared to win10 in term of security.
