Subj : Re: Windows issues
To   : Grymmjack
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jun 12 2005 01:11 am

  Re: Re: Windows issues
  By: Grymmjack to Digital Man on Sat Jun 11 2005 10:35 am

 > 
 >  >  > It is a pretty good program though. Sits in the tray and has a simple 
 >  >  > out of ram free or used and double clicking on that icon in the tray r
 >  >  > cleanup/defragger.
 > 
 >  > These programs are hoaxes. Here's a good article explaining the technical
 >  > details: http://tinyurl.com/9jzuo
 > 
 > thanks for the link, it was informative.
 > 
 > few things i should mention:
 > 
 > RAMPage source is available:
 > http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/rampg16_source.zip
 > 
 > features (from the homepage): http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage:
 > 
 > * Frees memory automatically, on demand, or after an application finishes
 > running
 > 
 > i am assuming he means closing open handles or something?

The OS does this automatically.

 > * Low active memory footprint, low resource and cpu usage
 > * Can run "hidden" which reduces memory and resource usage
 > * Can be run from a batch file, or via a shortcut, to free memory
 > * Easy to install/configure
 > * Freeware
 > 
 > Things RAMpage does NOT do:
 > * Free System, GDI, User resources (sorry!)
 > * Compress memory
 > * Modify cache, or other system settings
 > 
 > so it looks like he isn't making a claim to defrag, that was my error. There
 > was another program that came with a feature built into HoverDesk
 > (http://www.hoverdesk.net) - a shell for windows (replacement or in unity
 > with explorer.exe) that double clicking the ram read out would claim to
 > 'defragment' memory.
 > 
 > So it doesn't defragment memory. It monitors memory usage in the tray and
 > does the things mentioned above somehow. The source is available Rob, if you
 > want to look at it.
 > 
 > Maybe he did something cool?

I dobut it. <shrug>

 > I dunno.. but I have used it in the past when having several applications
 > open simultaneously (photoshop/imageready/dreamweaver/illustrator) which eat
 > tons of memory and have watched the reports in taskmon (or taskmgr or
 > whatever it is -- the ctrl-alt-del thing) before and after running the memor
 > cleanup feature of RAMpage and it has made a difference.. though the
 > difference was in the Mem column and i don't know what that measures or wher
 > the stats come from..

Like that article says, lowering the stats ("available memory" reported by the
taskmon), doesn't not actually do anything constructive. It sounds like this
program is exactly the kind of hoax-ware that is debunked by that article.

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