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The RAM Optimization

Windows XP does use a special memory management system to get more memory from the system for applications. As soon as the available physical memory is totally used, Windows starts to swap parts of the RAM to a file - usually called 'pagefile.sys' that is stored somewhere on any of your harddrives. This makes it possible to run more applications you usually could run using only your physical memory.
Several things could cause the operating system not to manage the available memory as optimized as possible, such as very large programs, program crashes, memory holes, a lot of background programs etc.

Give it a try: start a lot of applications, games, etc. It does not take very long until Windows comes up with such an error message:

What now?

  • You may close some applications, but most of the time this will not fix the problem, 'cause Windows does not reorganize the RAM totally. Parts of those programmes will stay in memory.
  • You may reboot your machine or re-start Windows. That means: save all your work, close all programmes, rebooting, restart Windows, restart all programs, reload all your files and after a couple of minutes you got the same problem: NOT ENOUGH MEMORY !
  • You can use the RAM Optimization feature of Tweak-XP !

The current RAM situtaion is displayed in the 'Current memory situation' frame. By clicking the 'Optimize RAM' button Tweak-XP will start to reorganize your physical RAM - cleaning unused parts and setting free as much RAM as possible. Tweak-XP will occupy a lot of your physical RAM and release it immediately. As soon as the optimization has finished, you'll notice more free RAM than before. The amount of free RAM will be optimized if you reorganize your physical memory several times. If you're interested in a standalone RAM Optimization software, please visit http://www.totalidea.de for the WinRAM-Booster product series offering more features, an automatic RAM optimization function and a lot more !

Please remember that the optimization of your RAM will take a few seconds
and that your harddisc control light may blink during optimization !

Optimization Settings:

  • Don't optimize the RAM when CPU is too busy: if this option is enabled, a RAM optimization command will be canceled on a busy CPU (if you're saving a file or doing any other CPU intensive procedure). This option was included for security reasons. Please do always enable this feature.

  • Clear the Clipboard on every optimization of the RAM: this option will clear the clipboard in which you can store text, files or any other data. The clearing will be done during a RAM optimization procedure.

  • Force Windows to unload DLL's from memory: Windows Explorer will usually try and cache DLL's by keeping them in memory even after the application using them has been closed. This can cause performance problems on low memory systems, and can be annoying when developing on Windows and the DLL's remain in use.

  • Let me specify how much memory to reorganize: regulary Tweak-XP will use half of the amount of your physical RAM for a RAM optimization - on a 128 MB RAM system this will be 64 MB). This amount DOES NOT stand for the value you can expect to be set free - it is just the amount of RAM that will be occupied and released by Tweak-XP. Windows XP reacts different on each RAM optimization command. We suggest you leave this option disabled or set it to half of the amount of your physical RAM.