Is there any little utility that can be used to free up RAM on demand? I know that Windows is supposed to manage it, but on occasion, it would be nice to be able to manually free up/clean up a little of what's not currently in use.

http://www.brothersoft.com/ram-defrag-17272.html

This is a great app. It doesn't make your page file greater, it literally returns leaked RAM. I have been using it for several weeks now!

I use that program too! I gained 200+ MB MEM from it. I have a 448 MB Memory so every bit counts. I had 74 MB memory left and after I defragged, my memory went to 200+! Great little tool!

Just a little notice, but right after you defrag, your computer might seem ultra slow, but that will go away after a few seconds.

Sounds interesting -- I'll give it a try. By the way, is this a memory resident program or can you just use it when you need it?

You can use it when ever you want. You can have it in the system tray if you want too!

WinXP and Vista already have good memory management function but if you are still running Win95/98/SE/ME then that's a different story.

brothersoft.com is in China that's one of the most prolific places of trojans, worms and malware.

I'd rather endure a root canal than install any of their software.

It's not from Brothersoft; it's from a different company. But slowday444 gave the download link in Brothersoft. Here's a safer link if you want: Clicky!

Oh and never download anything from Brothersoft. They're full of spyware, viruses and everything you can think of.

ALL NEW PC USERS ARE WARNED !!!

Yes,stay away from any software not available from the authors website.Check out the site and check with the forum.You will save yourself a lot of time because the forum members know what is good and what isn't.
The following site has MemInfo plus other handy free products.Even for finding Favorites.
I have been using MemInfo for 5 months.Very handy for my 256 MB RAM PC.
http://www.carthagosoft.net Authors website

Best Wishes,
davey

Freeram XP pro has served me well. Its outdated and for xp, but its quite nice.
www.yourwaresolutions.com

Those RAM "optimizer" programs are no replacement for actually having more RAM, i.e.; buy more RAM! I've used RAM "optimizers" in my Win98 days and I don't really think they do anything other than using the memory you're wanting to recover.

If the issue is from buggy programs that leak memory, a reboot will resolve it.

If you happen to still have avg antispy, just right-click on taskbar icon and choose scan memory, scans and frees up the memory at the same time, only takes a minute or so.

Look in taskmanager before you do it, and then after to see the difference.

This is so true! I've been reporting this on several forums for a couple of years. The thing is we are losing it by the end of the year. My subscription goes to December. That is why I wanted to find something else and this RAM Defrag does that. It's different from those optimizing progs that I think just increase the size of the page file.

Check out MemInfo also. It can load at startup which I do.It sits there in the tray showing usage then you can expand it with your tooltip open Taskmanager from it and watch Defragging as it happens 10-15 seconds.Options for font,colors,changes colors or ballon on high usage and others I haven't even used yet.You can exit.Start from Desktop,startup menue or all programs.Measure page file and/or physical memory or free memory,actual or percentages etc.

http://www.carthagosoft.net/meminfo.htm MemInfo

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista
compatible with Windows XP/Vista 64 bits edition
Some features are not available on Windows NT and Windows 2000
davey

I think Davey that Slowday and I are just really glad that we both have an 'already installed' program that is able to do this.

Not enough people really know about the fact that you can use it like this.

Slightly off topic, it also has a file shredder built in with a paranoid mode setting!

Well I'll be! I've been using it for a couple of years, that is how I discovered what AVG Anti-Spyware memory scans were doing because I keep the little monitor active in the notification area. I just right clicked it and I see the Defrag option. I'll try it and maybe uninstall RAM Defrag. hazelnut, although it's overkill I have AVG run the two minute (more or less) mem scan at 6:00am, 2:00pm and 10:00pm. Really, the only times my MemInfo shows greater that 50% usage of my 1gig has been after Spy Sweeper (it's gone now) and Spyware Doctor (just have the starter edition) scans.
Also, I installed RAM Defrag on my notebook, not knowing about the MemInfo feature which I already had, but it didn't have any effect. I wasn't sure if it was because it doesn't list Vista OS or because Vista does something to RAM itself. Next time I fire it up I'll try MemInfo defragmentor.

"Maybe it's flushing whatever is resident in memory out after it's been scanned," however when it was still in existence it had the opposite effect on my PC and made it run funny afterwards hence I would only download and use it once in a while then remove it after getting an all clean report. Old versions of Lavasoft Ad-Aware (new versions need not apply) did do something to the RAM as the system would always run a little smoother.

Surprisingly after I used Recuva the other day to securely delete files my system was running so smooth it seemed better than new, and it's still running like that.

Ok guys, here is a little app that I made for checking available memory while different apps are running. It will always run on top of all other apps so you can see whats happening. It won't tell you what is using the most memory you will have to use Task Manager for that.

Its made with Visual Basic 6.0 so if you don't have Msvbvm60.dll in your Windows\System or Windows\System32 folder then you can download the basic runtime files here.

I've downloaded that Keith. Sounds worth a look, thanks.

Just out of interest, I'm wondering if this feature in TweakNow_WinSecret, has a similar beneficial effect on the use of memory.



Make windows unload .dll files from memory when all applications using them have been closed.

Dunno how much that would free up at any one time, but sounds like it could be an increase in efficiency.

I have had MemInfo since before I had AVG FREE.The first thing I saw in Tools was that when I got AVG Free.
It is handy for those who never had it in their tray.I am glad also but what is going to happen to AVG 7.5 Free ?
There are going to be users looking for RAM defraggers.
MemInfo fills that function and Monitors memory.

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Hey Dennis,
After using WinSecret and reviewing all of those options, it is true many of these options are related to myths or old OS practices.Trouble is most of the options are more detrimental than beneficial to all
OS.A few options are beneficial to some OS.Unload .dll files is beneficial to OS prior to 2000.It has no effect on 2000 and later.
I thought you might have picked up on this link when I first posted it for Eli.
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html I like this whole site so far (comcast).
One of the options in your snapshot is detrimental to most average users PCs. Fill it in later.
davey

I posted this quirk a fair while ago.

Open Taskmanager and note Explorer's mem usage.

Open My Computer or My Documents and minimize to tray and watch explorer dump a lot of it's memory.

Note Taskmanager's mem usage and minimize then bring it back up and it shows Taskmanager using less than half the memory.

Is it actually dumping memory?

Don't really know.

That unload .DLL files from memory worked back in the Win9x era, however it also could have the tendency to cause programs that never seemingly crash to all of a sudden become unstable. There's so many virtual memory myth-tweaks around I don't bother with them any more.

The one tweak it has 'disable NTFS last access time' does work, but how useful it is I don't know and it may be some minimal improvement that isn't even noticed. I can verify that it does make that modification successfully because JkDefrag mentions something about it being disabled.

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180search Assistant (Mood-Avatars-Setup.exe)

FOUND: 180solutions

1clickdvdcopyprosetuprn.exe

FOUND: W32/Cekar virus, Generic!atr trojan, W32/MumaWow virus

2 Find MP3 Powered by AdVantage (2_Find_MP3_20089.exe)

FOUND: Comscore/Marketscore, MeMedia
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2M Free Solitaires (2mfreesolwe.exe)

FOUND: Adware-RBlast.dldr, Generic Downloader.q trojan, Spyware-WebHancer
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3D Sea Lighthouses Screensaver (sealighthouses.exe) changes home page add ons
4DiskcleanG (4DiskcleanFreeware.exe)

FOUND: W32/Cekar virus

7art Tender Autumn ScreenSaver v.1.1 (TAtumnInst.exe)

FOUND: NavExcel
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7VoltmeterClockInst.exe

FOUND: WhenU

a-squared HiJackFree (a2HiJackFreeSetup.exe)

FOUND: W32/Cekar virus, Generic!atr trojan, W32/MumaWow virus

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I just tried out MemInfo and it's been pretty useful so far. It even sometimes frees more memory than RamDefrag Extreme. So I think I'll keep MemInfo for now.

<wincleaner.com> try it! it doesn't gobble up the mem its meant to clear, works without any interruption, and its great for minimal ram resource ofcourse the best option is to add more ram but this program does really work !

I'll try that out too!

EDIT: Nvm, I'm not going to try it out. It's like a cleaning suit, right?

nope its called winclean memory optimiser and thats all it does

Davey, thanks for that link: Andavari, ditto for the advice.

Will change the "dump dll's option".

I already knew that of course. Just threw it in to see if you guys were concentrating.

HI Tom

I suggest you read the attachment bellow, before you optimize .


Good luck. Eli

The only reason you want to use this option for is if you are using a disk defrag program like JkDefrag
and you want to sort on date last accessed. This is because some anti-malware programs are still causing date last accessed to be updated every time you run a scan.Some vendors have fixed this problem and some have not.
In other defrag programs that use similar practices to Windows optimizing disk strategy this option is detrimental.
You definitely don't want to "disable NTFS last access time" or other so called tweaks if you are using Windows Disk Defragmenter.This includes turning off Indexing service, or turning off "index this disk for fast file searching".These all make certain Windows features not function properly for average users of Windows XP and Vista.
If you use TweakUI you also don't want to uncheck Optimize hard disk when idle.
If you are constantly using JkDefrag then the benefits of Windows optimizing strategies is negated.
If you use JkDefrag sorting and defrag features infrequently then you do not need to disable any of these features.
I think JkDefrag is an excellent defrag and optimizing program but only for specific users.

Average users are better served by Windows Disk Defragmenter and Windows optimizing strategies.
They should not disable many things that they are told to disable by well-intentioned but insufficiently informed advisers.

davey

Does/can a memory defragger actually free memory -- or does it literally just defragment it?

Microsoft say it ok to turn off Indexing only need in a office,yes dont turn off Optimize hard disk when idle that bad I did not know that you can do this,so only need Indexing for JkDfrag? is that right.
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that is the info & it not look to Good to me bug stop the full check so you can get to the site may be just as well.

Hi Hot Doggie my friend,
Turning off Indexing slows things down if you use Windows search and also some other software that takes advantage of the presence of the Index.
JkDefrag advises turning off Indexing if you are using the screen saver option as it is constantly moving things around.

Initially, when you turn Indexing back on you will notice a slow down in your daily work as it rebuilds an index file.So I would recommend turning it back on at the end of your normal activity and let it rebuild while you are not using the PC.

After this you will hardly notice it running in the background.But if you are defragging on a daily basis with JkDefrag as many "specialized" users do then it is to their advantage to turn off Indexing.

Most average users are slowing their daily work by doing Cleaning and Defragging too frequently.
It is actually a waste of time.Everytime you do heavy cleaning and constant defragging the performance benefits decrease.

CCleaner is an excellent product for increasing the performance of "junked up" PCs.It certainly is not necessary to be run several times a day or even everyday.I have learned too increase the size allocated to Internet Temporary Files and also the number of days to keep History.I don't clean the history or index.dat files or my Applications files eveytime I use CCleaner.
This does not hold true for those "worried" about security.They have to balance the need for performance versus security.I like to keep History longer than some because it allows me to keep track of the good or bad practices of other users of this PC.I don't worry about some adware keeping track of how many times I click on "chicken wings" or anything else.Besides I use SpywareBlaster and that keeps most adware at bay.

Regarding Defraggler,I think it is now somewhere between Windows Disk Defragmenter(WDD) and the ultimate specialized defrag programs.It seems to me that at one time Defraggler reported that everyting was defragged but when you Analyzed using WDD it showed that some files were still defragmented.
That was because Defraggler was ignoring those files as does WDD when it comes to certain files that are a waste of time defragging.Who needs System Restore files and user temporary settings files defragmented? No one does because it is a waste af time.This is why WDD does not even bother moving such files to the outside of the disk.It will if it is necessary but only if there is little space to work with when defragging large files.Some people want to defrag eveything on their disk.What is the advantage of defragging music and movies and such?WDD and other defrag programs ignore them knowing that you don't need to move everything around to get get a very,very,very small increase in speed.This is as Andavari points out about Disable NTFS last access date.

As I have said before most users are better off using WDD and only defragging when it says it is needed.They don't have to worry about updates or new "bugs" or any of the other problems with other defrag programs.Plus they don't negate the benefits of the built in optimization strategies of Windows XP and Vista.All they have to to do is leave Prefetch files alone and leave the Indexing sevice alone and Windows will do its thing.It is also necessary to leave the PC on if they never allow any idle PC time.This is when there has been no mouse or keyboard activity for 90 % of the time in the last 15 mins.Some users don't leave their PC that idle at all.

A perfect example of this is that Windows optimization recently moved my MFT and dropped it comfortably in the middle of my programs and data files.It did this when I allowed it enough idle time.
davey

Thanks Hot Dog,

All PC users are advised to stay away from Brothersoft and it's many related websites.
If you don't, the chances of you getting infected go up greatly.
You can go there to get an idea of what such sites look like.The others are very much the same.
DON'T CLICK ON ANYTHING !!!

HOT DOG s link to McAfee siteadviser shows it all.Please see this report.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/brotherso...t_type=FF&a

Hi Eli,

This is very useful for those who do have some leaky software and only at specific times.
I don't use it to defrag that often. but sometimes some programs refuse or were poorly written
and won't release needed space.
Sometimes I can't afford to wait 15 min for the software to automatically clear out while it slows down the applications I need to use ,NOW.
Yes , they are no magic pill as some people are led to believe but it is beneficial to those who need it.
MemInfo helps me monitor what is going on more than it's defrag function.
Your report is most revealing to those who think it does some magical function.
davey

Hello Davey,

I tried out Mem Info and so far it's been working great! It kind of returns leaked memory too.

Icedrake

I don't find Windows Search slows down much.

I did a search on jpg files and it found 1399 objects in less than 5 seconds.

I agree but I keep my Temporary Internet Files storage at 100MB and I have Andavari's CCleaner_Auto_Shutdown.zip that I run when I leave my system for an extended period of time:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fgcyk1tli4x

That is good advice.

Hey Icedrake,
I think you may be more aware of some programs that are leaky than I am.
I think I would describe it more like Pac Man gobbling up chunks of memory.
In my case Meminfo gives me back more physical memory than I expected and it is not a temporary thing.At times I have watched the defrag cause some programs go to 0 KB and quit.
Of course ,I do this only when the monitor turns red and stays there for quite awhile and I don't want to wait for memory to clear itself over time.
davey

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/...ation-hoax.html


January 2004
The Memory-Optimization Hoax
RAM optimizers make false promises
From the January 2004 Edition
of Windows IT Pro
Mark Russinovich
Internals
InstantDoc #41095
Windows IT Pro

I agree with your comments on the Memory Management process.
What I recommend to enhance your Windows experience is to de-activate any useless "Startup program" or "Service".

Good links to find more on these points are:
== 12 Tweaks for performance (+ help to disable services)
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm
== Utility to disable Startup Applications
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml
== List of Startup Applications
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

And, if you need a RAM Optimizer (because you run Windows 95/98/ME), you can use this little one.
It has a very small memory footprint.
http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/

Hi Icedrake,
Just a little followup to clarify something.
I initially used the words "leaky programs" and said MemInfo gets rid of them.
That is not the case. I should have said that MemInfo helps me be aware of these types of programs still sitting in memory and slowly or quickly eating up real memory and virtual memory also.
Then I can use Task Manager to End Process on the errant program.
MemInfo defragment does help get programs to release memory that they are not using.
I also find that it helps to reboot at least once a day to get things back into shape.
davey

You're right Davey but some memory hogging programs are windows componets, like explorer.exe. It's not exactly good to quit those types of programs, and one more thing, my explorer process sometimes takes up over 60+ mb memory. I've never seen it do this before...

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That program looks alright. Oooohh a portable version, nice! I think I might just give this a try.

I think a lot of it has to with the fact that now that you have that little monitor sitting there,you can't help but pay attention.With only 256 Mb of RAM I was constantly using task manager to monitor things.Now I don't even think about it until the red color change in the Icon lets me know I am above 90%.If it stays there,then I start checking out what is happening.
davey

I forgot to mention that I use Humpty's method to bring down explorer.exe. memory usage.
See this link. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=101777
It works for me.
davey

It's working for me too now. Explorer was using 30+mb memory a few min ago and when I tried Humpty's method, mem usage went down to less than 6 mb!

Yeah comes in handy when for some reason it and its related svchost.exe both climb way up there over 134MB one time.
P.S. Also prefer your new avatar.
davey

What do you mean by "prefer your new avatar"?