# Vista memory issues?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/vista-memory-issues/218740>\
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**Created:** [March 10, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/vista-memory-issues/218740 "2007-03-10T08:27:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![3d\_Nirvana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/a88e4f/32.png) [@3d\_Nirvana](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3d_Nirvana)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/vista-memory-issues/218740/1 "2007-03-10T08:27:53Z")

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So i’m having some troubles with vista here. I’m running vista, and programs are taking a unusual amount of ram. Firefox with three tabs open uses 200mb, thats more than it should right? Msn Messenger is using about 40mb, which is also too much right? I cant figure out where all my memory is going. I am using on average 870mb of ram, and those two programs are the only ones open that take any significant amount of ram that i see (based of the task manager). Windows vista doesn’t use like 600mb of ram while idle does it?!

its very frustrating. I just formatted last month or so and have all the protection software installed. So i don’t think its spyware…

anybody else having memory problems with vista?