Originally Posted by Rys
Did you really mean to say that, and call people that use their PC in such a fashion 'stupid' ?
Your argument in this thread is baseless, since you cannot possibly understand of know how everyone uses their PC, yet you presume to do so by calling people with lots of running applications 'stupid'.
I currently have the following up and running on my PC, as I type this:
Photoshop CS
Homesite 4.5
Firefox
Outlook XP
Steam
MSN Messenger
Rivatuner
RMClock
WiFi Card Manager
System Studio 2
Winamp
NOD3D Anti Virus
Microsoft Word
PuTTY
UltraMon
DynDNS Updater
Gadwin Printscreen
EPSON Printer Monitor
Combined, they're using nearly 800MB of physical memory, with a further 300MB or so paged out to disk but mapped and in use. All of those applications are either required for me to do my job, or are small utilities that help me use my computer quickly and easily. That's over 1GB of mapped memory, the OS pushing some out to disk.
The minute I start the process of editing images in Photoshop for use in HomeSite, while I use Word for copy checking, I'll run into memory pressure with the OS having to go out to disk more often. 2GB would be a help for me.
I don't consider my use of a PC, or the apps and utils I run, to be out of the ordinary. Do you? Infact, I consider it entirely normal.
I shut down the bigger apps when I want to game, but I certainly don't close down all the smaller utilities I frequently use. Am I stupid, in your eyes, for not doing so? If I am, and I'm far from alone in how I use a computer, then I suggest you start to rethink your notions of computer use before any more threads you participate in are sidetracked by your incorrect assumptions about how folks use a PC.
I know it's common for the overclocker to shut as much down as possible, in the pursuit of a higher benchmark result, and I know that's where you're coming from, but that's really not how most us a PC system. Please try and understand that.
Calling RoGuE|SaBeR stupid for his tiny list of useful apps he uses is uncalled for. Please exercise restraint before you insult anyone else, thanks!