performance after system recovery

External Since: Jun 27, 2006 Posts: 4

I did a system recovery that brought my system back to factory settings but
saved all my files b/c I wanted pictures, music etc. My problem is that
before the recovery my free RAM was never lower than 700MB but after the
recovery is stays at 300-500MB. Is this a normal # and also can I delete the
files in my back-up that I no longer need such as, program files, doc &
settings? Would having duplicates to all this take up much RAM?

External Since: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 37

pcampo wrote (in news:39D5A0D0-1784-443F-8FD2-835D66FE9B5D@microsoft.com):

> I did a system recovery that brought my system back to factory settings but
> saved all my files b/c I wanted pictures, music etc. My problem is that
> before the recovery my free RAM was never lower than 700MB but after the
> recovery is stays at 300-500MB. Is this a normal # and also can I delete the
> files in my back-up that I no longer need such as, program files, doc &
> settings? Would having duplicates to all this take up much RAM?

What exactly do you mean by 700MB free? Are you taking about disk space or
memory? RAM refers to memory, but your files are stored on disk.

Where is the backup located?

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