If you want Windows to eat up all your RAM and cpu cycles

[hobbit709]

Then activate Windows Media player Network Service.

Had someone bring in ther laptop, was running very slow. Took about 4 clicks to close a window, etc.
First thought-virus. Nope-clean scans. Checked task manager. 84% processor and 1 Mb free RAM out of 3 Gb-WTF?
Somehow this had gotten turned on in the startup Disabled it and cpu use dropped to 4% and free RAM became 1.5Gb.

If I was going tostream media on a network, the last thing I would use is that resource hog Media Player.

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Or just open MS Office or Visual Studio

or just about any other Microsoft software.

[hobbit709]

2. The only thing of M$ I use besides Windoze is MSE.

I won't use Orifice, Outhouse, Media Player, or any other of their stuff.
I have Internet ExploDer firewalled out on my machine.

[HopeHoops]

3. Hey, VS10 on Win7 is pretty damn good!

Earlier versions, not so much.

[ChromeFoundry]

4. Yes, I have to agree (but I was compelled to throw the dagger :D)

VS 2010 Ult. has a much smaller memory footprint than say, 2008. I think that you will see VS 2010 consume a lot more if you install the new, "Visual Studio achievements for developers" add-in... WTF. Is coding now become a game where you earn XP points for using Lamdas for your delegates!? sheez.

[HopeHoops]

5. I play no such games. But yes, the footprint is smaller.

One of the things they did was to only load the components for the language you're using (mostly C#). I was shocked when I noticed the difference between VS (older ones) on Vista and VS10 on Win7. They still haven't brought IE up to current standards, but on the developers' front they're getting a little bit of faith back from me.