MemOptimizer 3 comments:

By: mike hunte

mike hunte — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:54:45 -0400

waste of memory

By: lalaplz

lalaplz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:38:44 -0400

Well, not to diss a freebie, but, I'm sticking with MemTurbo. It's better all around and you can scrub memory while programs are still running.

By: Tabs

Tabs — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:41:59 -0400

Now, I use FreeRam XP Pro, which I got for free and which is quite useful as I play a lot of memory-sucking games that have, in the past, crashed (Sims 2 anyone?). I have that thing plugged in, if my games are about to go into suck-mode, it stops them and frees up RAM to keep it going, and I go about my business with only a brief slow-down. 99% of the time it doesn't do anything else because I don't always play memory sucking games. Occasionally it's very useful for discovering that a new game I installed, or some other program, is sucking up all the memory and has a problem with it, so I can either make adjustments or remove the program in question. For free, I'd go with it. It's easy to use and very low-key, not using much memory at all (I checked in my Task Manager, it barely breaks 1K and is one of the two lowest memory-using programs I have). These so-called "professional" versions of these things are a joke. I won't buy one, and I won't download one for free even, because they're a rip-off, even if they don't cost anything. I'll take a nice, simple program that doesn't affect my computer much. And I know these professional programs stink because I used to use one, and it was worthless, not to mention whenever I needed to "upgrade" the program it cost me all over again. No thanks. Stick with a nice, small freeware version that doesn't wipe out your memory and that is useful only when you need it.

By: Flattop

Flattop — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:30:54 -0400

#8, Robin The offer appears on the server at the exact same instant for everyone. The time zone has nothing to do with the post - only the time that you see it posted. A mistake made here a number of times.

By: Jim Baird

Jim Baird — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:30:11 -0400

#55 Alan and #62 Jay - Thanks Guys!!

By: BloughMee

BloughMee — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:48:13 -0400

#78 Thank you for the stupid and pointless rant. Anyone with an hour to waste typing something like that..on a site like this... needs to go rent a life. I know lots of folks who work for Microsoft and you know what.... they're pretty darned happy.

By: BloughMee

BloughMee — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:42:24 -0400

why me need this when good softwares are on the internets for already?

By: redmaledeer

redmaledeer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:27:52 -0400

Nos. 12, 24, 41, 42, and 45 mention free programs that do about the same thing as the giveaway. To these one could add the free Rambooster and Rampage: http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/ http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/ I think Rambooster may be the Grandaddy of such programs. The author of Rampage makes useful (and often surprisingly pessimistic) comments about the uses and misuses of "optimizer" programs: "... if you believe a memory freeing tool is useful, you may as well use a small, efficient, free one," namely his. He doesn't use one. I do NOT believe that such "optimizers" speed up a computer. However I think these are legitimate uses: 1)When free RAM gets low enough to maybe cause a crash I nudge it upward to a safe level. 2)Every once in a while I free up as much RAM as I can, to get rid of accumulated leftover program crud. Whether or not there is such crud, this can't hurt. My Windows XP is supposed to manage memory properly, but I don't trust Redmond as much as some people do. Rambooster displays the amount of Free RAM. This first alerted me to the whole issue of Free RAM problems.

By: Bummed

Bummed — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:12:22 -0400

" Windows 95, 98, ME and NT 4 are no longer supported by this program." Well let's not let it run on the operating systems that may see the biggest benefit! Duhhh....

By: JL

JL — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:11:55 -0400

This no longer supports "Win95, Win98, ME and NT4" it informed me when I tried to install it on my trusty old <512MB laptop, which I still run Win98 on so I can offer tech support to my friends who still use it. I'll stick with MaxMem from AnalogX. My experience with mem optimizers over the last 20+ years that I've been working with computers is that SOME work for SOME computers under SOME circumstances, but NONE of them work for EVERY computer ALL the time. The basic principle of most of them focuses on two steps; freeing up RAM when programs don't unload from memory, and making large contiguous blocks of memory available to applications. Most optimizers that I've tried do those well enough, but the various combinations of programs a user might run at different times precludes most of them from applying any kind of "one size fits all" approach successfully in every case. So what's the solution? An "on demand" optimizer will probably give the most users some satisfaction when properly used, whereas one that runs and optimizes all the time will eventually bog your machine down, at least some of the time, rather than making it faster. Before you give a blanket condemnation of ALL memory optimizers, remember that none of them can work well under all possible hardware/software combinations; so try this program if you don't have gigs of memory to waste, but don't expect more than modest results under the best circumstances, and expect some slowdowns under most others.