Are the Windows Gadgets a memory hog?

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KaiZ51

Discussion Starter · Nov 29, 2009

I've been thinking of using a few, but with only 2GB of RAM, maybe it's a bad idea. What do you think?

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NETio

· #2 · Nov 29, 2009

Depending on what you run, it shouldn't be a major problem. Windows 7 has pretty good memory management.

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you should be fine.

i have them running and while browsing with Chrome and IMing on steam, my task manager is reading 689mb used. frankly i think there are other things you should worry about taking your memory

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laboitenoire

· #4 · Nov 29, 2009

Some take up a bit, but the ones I run (Clock, resource monitor, weather, and a shut-down function box) are pretty low on the list.

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Drift0r

· #5 · Nov 29, 2009

It shouldn't be a big deal. Watch out for user made ones as some of them have either a CPU or memory leaks. Not really a big deal, just remove and restart gadgets.

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KaiZ51

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 30, 2009

Thanks, I'm going for it then.

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Lord Xeb

· #7 · Nov 30, 2009

If it were Vista, yes. But since Windows 7 is really nice to your memory and is not a bloated POS, there shouldn't be a problem.

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rasa123

· #8 · Nov 30, 2009

I use 3 gadgets with only 2gb of ram just fine.

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