I think the key words in your sentence is "left over". Vista with 1GB does not really have "left over". Either that, or the Vista's "pre-emptive app caching" a

I think the key words in your sentence is "left over". Vista with 1GB does not really have "left over". Either that, or the Vista's "pre-emptive app caching" algorithms are really terrible, because the first two apps my girlfriend always launches are 1) iTunes and 2) Firefox. It should figure that out and launch them quickly, instead of disk thrashing for 15-30 seconds and then launching them.