That's a making mountains out of molehills deaprtment It only uses that memory portion while running. Unless your PC is RAM deficiant, it's a non-problem. In typing this response, my brower was open, Outlook (my e-mail client) and Word (the spell-checker part), plus AHP, all running with no degradement.
SHEESH!!!!! 
It is not really a question of memory. It is a question of cpu timeslice.
Microsoft says:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library(d=robot)/system.diagnostics.processpriorityclass.aspx AboveNormal Specifies that the process has priority above Normal but below High.
BelowNormal Specifies that the process has priority above Idle but below Normal.
High Specifies that the process performs time-critical tasks that must be executed immediately, such as the Task List dialog, which must respond quickly when called by the user, regardless of the load on the operating system. The threads of the process preempt the threads of normal or idle priority class processes.
Caution
Use extreme care when specifying High for the process's priority class, because a high priority class application can use nearly all available processor time.
Idle Specifies that the threads of this process run only when the system is idle, such as a screen saver. The threads of the process are preempted by the threads of any process running in a higher priority class.
Note
The idle priority class is inherited by child processes.
Normal Specifies that the process has no special scheduling needs.
RealTime Specifies that the process has the highest possible priority.
Caution
The threads of a process with RealTime priority preempt the threads of all other processes, including operating system processes performing important tasks. Thus, a RealTime priority process that executes for more than a very brief interval can cause disk caches not to flush or cause the mouse to be unresponsive.
So no, I don't necessarily think I'm making a mountain of a molehill.
I really don't know that it matters either way, just seems strange to me is all. I was maybe hoping for an explanation from x10 (or someone knowledgeable) about why it is this way.
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