https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/ en Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5730 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:03:07 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5730 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5729 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:51:14 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5729 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5728 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:36:48 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5728 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5727 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:12:16 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5727 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5726 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:08:36 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5726 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5725 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:37:50 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5725 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5724 To anyone who said something like: #73 Traciatim: ‘defrag’ of RAM is a myth. you don’t need to defrag it for one thing; it’s designed for random access. Ok, you're good Googlers, but if you learn a bit more about systems, rather than being just poking around some articles you found, you may come to understand that the RAM FREEING Utilities actually DO perform some good functions. All you wrote is acknowledged, but now it's time to go beyond all that. Consider that when you boot your computer, all kinds of things load into ram. Some of these things might be background SERVICES, or Quirktime, or RealPlaguer, or MusicMatchJokeBox, or Nero CD drive utilities, or HP photo printer crap, Ipsec monitoring, Microsoft Binder, .NET, ASP, Network DDE, PDF stuff, RPC, SMartCard services, and all those other icons you've got coming up near your clock on startup. Now ALL of these get loaded at boot time, so they load into RAM contiguously and it starts filling. But you may not even use those things, or even WANT to use those things. Then you might load your browser, or a game or something from MS-OFFICE or your email program or some program that you use a LOT. So what happens is, that wonderful QUICKTIME got a free & clear chunk of your RAM, but now your program you REALLY use is crowded out and half of it gets swapped out to disk in the virtual memory page file. Now due to disk-based access being slower, Quicktime (which you're not even using) gets to reside in RAM, but your other program gets stuck having to page in and page out all the time. If you run one of these RAM Optimizers, SURE, it may page it ALL out to disk, but it will also page out all that Quicktime and MMJB, and kernel services that are NOT being used, too! Then you can load up your MS-word, or Browser or what have you, and it will have a chance to get as much of it as possible BACK INTO faster RAM. So these utilities can perform a good function of pushing everything out to the swap file, and sure it may need to page the programs you are using back in, but it will then allow you to focus forward the programs that you are actually using, and allow THEM to run with more actual RAM, and less swap. And from that point forward, that program you are interested in will operate faster than that dormant stuff that had taken up most of the contiguous ram. Next, have you never heard of memory leaks? OMG, this problem has been around forever! And it continues to plague just about every piece of software you can name. A lot of you talk like you can load a program and it will take 20 megs, and then when you unload it, it will give back all 20 megs. NO way! Maybe in a dream with unicorns and pretty pretty flowers. But in real life, you can open a program, it will take 20 megs, and when you close it, it will only give back 18. Now open and close it a few times during a session of using your computer, and you've got 2,4,6,8,10,12 megs locked out of usage. Now think about how many windows and programs you might open & close over the course of a day. Or some people leave their pc's on 24/7 for weeks! In addition, during usage, a program with a memory leak will continue to bloat, and neither will it give back everything. So over the course of a day or more of usage you may have tons of RAM tied up in unused services, utilities, background processes, or memory leaks. These programs can *assist* somewhat (not perfect, but they HELP) in optimizing the performance of your system in this way. OMG, have you people never rebooted and found your pc runs so much better after a fresh reboot? Even if you had closed down every possible program without rebooting and began working again, it's still not releasing those bits hooked into memory, and it's still not the same. You know your pc runs nice & fast again after a reboot. These RAM optimizer utilities perform 1 aspect of this, and allow you to slightly improve the effect of fragmented, improperly apportioned, and improperly swapped memory that occurs over time during the use of your computer. #83 AKERS WROTE: RAM freeing utilities are for idiots. Durrh. Tenh I are a idot. Guh.]]> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:10:06 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5724 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5723 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:26:00 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5723 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5722 Ok, to ANYONE who typed: "it “only” freed up 1 MB" or that it didn't do much... Pick this option: "TRY TO FREE __xx__ MEGS", not the AutoFree option. And set xx all the way up to the highest amount of ram that it will go. Now Go free the Ram 2 times. If you really haven't just freshly rebooted, or you aren't a light user, you should see more of a result.]]> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:14:55 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5722 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5721 Anyone who missed this download can still get the program that I told all the way back up at the top in #14. FREE RAM XP PRO - It's free - http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/software.html#framxpro Does the same thing. In fact, it's surprising even some of the wording in the sentences in the menus are identical. This also applies for anyone who couldn't activate or whose serial number didn't work for some reason. Go try FREERAMXPPRO. It can free ram only whan cpu usage is below a certain %, it has graphs, it can free ram after so many minutes of time, it can free ram on demand by clicking the icon near your clock, autofree or try to free a certain amount. It's all in there. Or buy the TweakRam if you prefer.]]> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:05:58 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tweakram/#comment-5721