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By: KenM

KenM — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:10:36 +0000

While the program can’t work miracles, I love it. My work machine has only 512Mb, and I leave it on for week (I regularly have about 10-15 tasks open at a time (some of them browsers, with 3 or 4 tabs), so opening that all up every morning would just be a pain.) The problem is that, by the end of the week, everything is very slow, and I often have to re-boot during the week.

I now keep this program minimised, and glance periodically at that meter. When it drops too low, I quickly run it, and it helps – a lot. It’s probably too soon to tell, but so far, my machine certainly operates much better than it has in the past.

By: Totya

Totya — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:12:37 +0000

I downloaded, and tried this, but i didn’t see any difference… I have 1GB Ram in my laptop, and Windows defaultly use about 460MB, this program didn’t unload any dll, modul, etc. It is shiny and decorativ, but useless…

By: fred

fred — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:59 +0000

momory optimizers are a joke, read here it’s all explained why:

http://88.191.26.34/computers_are_fun/2007/04/24/do-i-need-a-memory-optimizer/

and it also feature a little soft that different but help using your ram better. but using it, as it explains good ram is used ram!!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:53:21 +0000

These apps are useless. The built-in XP memory manager does an excellent job without leaving “holes” or other mythical bottlenecks. Constantly flushing your cache actually creates more disk access. Stay away from this kind of stuff … it never delivers what it advertises.

By: blackflag

blackflag — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:14:43 +0000

This program sounds like a good one but I will have to pass on it..

Memory optimizers only work in some cases.

Limiting the amount of useless programs installed is a better way of keeping your ram and processor free.

This pick has no affect on how great I think the crew at GAOTD is..
GAOTD is still the best..

Thanks

By: Hempman

Hempman — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:28:32 +0000

I forgot to report:

I normally use no mmemory optimizer on Win XP Pro. This particular machine has only 512 MB RAM, AMD 64 3600 CPU. I am running 44 processes including: IE 7 with five tabs open and Windows Live toolbar loaded with a crapload of buttons, Windows Live Messenger, K9 Anti-spam, AVG AV and anti-spyware, iobi Home (a service that gives my ‘puter control over my phone service), a biometric device control program, ATI Control Center, Gigabyte Tech Sound Manager (for my Dolby Surround Sound), the Task Manager and a bunch of services for all the above.

While my RAM reports most of my RAM is in use, My CPU load floats around 4% on idle, and up to a whopping 8% when I start typing (it drops to 0% very frequently, and the 8% is the normal peak with spikes up to 15%.

As I edit this, I open a new IE7 Window, RAM useage barely moves, CPU spikes to 94% for about one second, and IE 7 is open completely within four seconds.

I ran TwaekRAM earlier, using the exact same test. RAM was cleared, sure. For about thirty seconds. CPU useage floated around 30%, jumping up around 40% when I start typing. The same test loading IE7 with all that other stuff above took ten seconds to load a second window for IE7, with TweakRAM running.

Now, exactly how is TweakRAM making my system more efficient?

By: Hempman

Hempman — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:09:12 +0000

A waste of time. Memory optimization has not been needed since Win 95. If you get a speed boost, then your system is kludged up. Probably from installing memory resident junk like memory optimzers.

It’s been a great experiment, trying to give away free software. I think that horse has broken its leg beyond repair. Time to get out that old revolver and put the poor thing out of its memory.

By: Paradoxicles

Paradoxicles — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:18:24 +0000

I actually have been recently thinking that I need to get a memory flushing program. I have to work with some pages on a regular basis that are loaded with poorly written javascript. Kicking that crud out of memory can make a big difference (on my Win98 and Millenium Machines).

I used to use a freeware program put out by MSI (they make motherboards etc.) which I was really happy with. It was pretty simple, nothing fancy and rock solid stable (and of course it worked). Along time before that I had used another one that I cant remember the name of. I couldn’t find the one by MSI, when I looked just a couple of weeks ago. I’d be really interested in hearing about the freeware alternatives that some of you are using.

I do have Machines with XP as well (which don’t need a program like this) but I still like using Win9x, and I have one with 2GB of memory that gets full of junk sometimes.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:17:02 +0000

Try Maxmem from Analogx.com. It’s freeware, simple and works well. I first tried maxmem on my slow computers for ocassional use 5 or 7 years ago.

By: Downside Up

Downside Up — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:56:39 +0000

Already downloaded this the previous time it was offered. The only real use for me is when I want to free up memory for other programmes/games (after unloading all the memory resident utilities in the system tray) or to get rid of stuff remaining in memory after a program crash. It sometimes works. I usually run it a couple of times in a row the get some results. Then I lose it.

Thanks kalmanizer (#56). TZ Connection Booster did a great job for me. Better than TCP Optimizer. Good suggestion!