Memory Washer, a smart memory and process manager tool, increases your amount of available memory by up to 95%.Comments on:

By: dem

dem — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:54:41 +0000

@44; Rizone is freeware, as are all the products on their site.

By: john connor

john connor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:46:26 +0000

@ PeneloP hit cltr + alt + delete to get task mgr showing and click on
processes tab and see which programs are using alot of memory or cpu.
click on preformance to see how much memory is in use and available also virtual/kernel memory is shown. you can increase the kernel/paged memory.
but if you have available memory and processes are not using much memory , then you need to clean up your hardrive.
I have similar system to you and firefox only uses 70 mb of memory.
I use a internet eraser program to delete temp files,logs and browser cache, and keep cookies deleted.
abrowser will just fill up its cache unless you delete it.
then defrag or anything to clean up useless junk that windows by default tends to collect.

@ tx_buckeye_nut same thing to you, except if you have to you can increase your virtual memory
right click on my comp, then select advanced tab, then under preformance, click settings, then advanced, then under virtual memory, click change, then study that window write down what the settings are, and then click custom and click on C: and type in something close to maximum reccomended .
mine is system managed now 1906 mb, but before I had only 500 gb physical so I increased the virtual to around 3000mb and it helped.
but first do what you can to clean up and get rid of junk files.

about the program i say buy more memory or learn how to clean up drive. I use task mgr to monitor cpu and memory all the time, if cpu goes way up to 100% I look to see why ,and it usually is a problem I wouldnt notice if I wasnt monitoring cpu usuage.
and since I bought more memory I dont have any memory problems.

By: shegeek72

shegeek72 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:46:10 +0000

Rick: you are correct, except you forgot to mention the differences between 32-bit and 64-bit. It’s true that the 64-bit versions of the various operating systems can handle more RAM. For example, Win XP 32-bit can only address 4 gigs, whereas the 64-bit version can address up to 128GB of RAM. Similar story for Vista: 32-bit of all versions (except for Starter which is 1 gig) can address up to 4GB. Whereas, the 64-bit versions of Vista go like this: Home Basic: 8GB, Home Premium: 16GB and the 64-bit versions of Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate can address up to 128GB.

Also, riverrat85 gave a wrong number for Win 7 Starter 32 and 64-bit are 2 gigs, not 8. The rest are correct.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778%28VS.85%29.aspx

By: goodgotd

goodgotd — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:42:37 +0000

Nope. no reason to use this, there are better free ones that do just as badly, and a few that at least don’t make things worse.

@tx_buckeye_nut- start> control panel> system> advanced tab, performance settings button> advanced tab> virtual memory ‘change’ button, make the current paging file larger or pick a drive/partition that has free space and make a paging file on it.

If there isn’t space to do either, clear space or get an additional or a bigger hard drive.

I usually pick 2 near-empty partitions that are *not* my boot drive and make a paging file on both- the system will be able to use both, but it makes each virtual memory file smaller and more responsive.

(just my opinion, YMMV)

By: MAJ

MAJ — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:31:44 +0000

Interesting that ALL of the user comments have received negative scores (including, if not especially, Ashraf). It’s also interesting that the rating scores are unusually high for the type of software that has traditionally been considered either unnecessary or less than useful. My gut reaction is that there’s something “fishy” about Memory Washer and my recommendation is to avoid it.

By: bshardy

bshardy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:31:31 +0000

Every time I tell it to clean the RAM it says: “ERROR: OUT OF MEMORY”

Ironic hmm?

By: PhotoPro

PhotoPro — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:44:06 +0000

I agree with several other posters, Windows handles the memory far better than any of the 3rd party apps.

Some show an indicator of ram regained – not really the case. Also as another stated, these memory “cleaners” despite the documentation, utilize the swap file on the hard drive – very, very, very slow compared to ram.

By: harpo2448

harpo2448 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:48:50 +0000

The link posted by #23, Boyd, is a very good article covering popular “performance tweak” advice (thanks Boyd!).

Here is another article related to Windows memory boosting:

http://www.bitsum.com/winmemboost.htm

It may help shed light on the techniques used by various memory performance enhancers.

#27, PeneloP, “My system needs help”:

If you haven’t done any system maintenance for a while, it sounds like you need to perform a scan for malware/spyware, followed by something to clean the clutter out of your system’s temporary file folders (and Registry), then maybe a defragmentation of your hard disk drive. There’s some other issues to consider mentioned there as well.

You probably aren’t the only one with that problem, but since my comments about your system’s performance issues are somewhat “off topic” (since they don’t discuss today’s offer), please see my comments on the General Discuss pages of the GAOTD forums (as “My system needs help. I was hoping Memory Washer would give it” — original title, eh?) on things you can try:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7115

Hope this helps you or someone else!

By: JimC

JimC — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:06:21 +0000

Those of you who are suggesting that these types of programs only “shunt working memory to the page file” are wrong — THAT is what Windows does when RAM gets close to being full… that’s what the page file is for.

The RAM cleaners (actually, I’ve been using FreshRAM on my Win2K with 512MB ram and it saves the day often) do is to be sure that RAM space that is allocated is actually allocated to running processes…

Sloppy coding and other factors often let processes/programs close while leaving their RAM still allocated… after a while, you ‘run out of ram’ and everything starts paging to the hard drive.

Because of all the bugs mentioned in the comments here I am not going to install this giveaway, but FreshRAM was given away a while ago and I’m very happy with that – especially on my brain-starved 512MB PC.

By: Tuksstuff

Tuksstuff — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:32:59 +0000

I really hate when people say that other programs are better and free like #15 and his http://www.rizonetech.com/, nice it does a free scan and then wants payment to correct the issues.
I am going to download GAOTD instead, thanks for everyone’s comments
I guess the only way to decide with so many is to try it. I am at best intermediate PC capable, so I don’t have a clue when it comes to all the geek talk..