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[mongo]

Lorraine wrote:
everything I do asks for security confirmation.

Turn off UAC.

I checked the resources and average memory usage was about 1.5GB, but I suspect a lot of that is OEM stuff he hasn't removed.

Actual memory usage is probably nowhere near that. Vista uses unused memory for caching. It will be made available to applications as needed.

[mongo]

Lorraine wrote:

I still don't see why it's necessary though.

If the memory isn't needed by applications, why not put it to good use?