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programs that free up memory?

  • 20-01-2008 6:19pm
    #1
    maradona10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭


    ive seen on the majorgeeks site that there are programs that either add or free up memory on your pc.

    has anyone used these and what is considered the best one?


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  • #2
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    The best way of optimising your pc is to stop processes starting at startup. Basically everything thats in the tray (bottom right) starts when you boot, if they can be disabled in their preferences, disable them as its best done from there.

    This is what your looking for.

    Personally, I've found this much better as it has a consult tab that googles all startup items & gives you information on whether its safe to disable or not.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    almost modern OS's use swap files
    when a program or chunk of data is not in use it gets swapped from memory in to the swap file where it stays until called again

    so you only need to cull the actively running tasks
    on microsoft site autoruns shows whats starts up and procexp allows you to kill runing tasks



    once upon a time there were programs that claimed to free up memory by compressing it , but none worked and people even got their money back


  • #4
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    You can run msconfig to block startup programs & services, and services.msc to turn off unnecessary services. You can also edit registry keys in regedit to stop startup programs. You can change the settings of the o/s to turn off window animation and other visual effects to boost performance. The memory being used on my computer before any programs were opened by the user after starting up was 580mb and it was very slow. After making the above changes the memory being used was about 400mb, and the computer stopped freezing the whole time and being so unresponsive.


  • #5
    maradona10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭maradona10


    thanks lads, ive downloaded startup inspector from the link above so will see how it improves performance


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