RAM Defrag tool

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  1. Posts : 32
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #11

    Something doesn't look right here. This is what mine shows
    mine 'looks' fine. I see nothing that yours has that mine doesn't
    except I have a triple core and 2GB more ram

    I haven't disabled my page file...and that's not really relevant. this is about the physical ram
    Up time 35 days?
    awesome right?
    and I know a restart will trash the ram and it'll look a lot different
    that was one of my first points.
    I just want a tool that allows recovery of any ram that's no longer actually in use...as obviously I'm not using ~5GB of ram...but yet windows / my pc seems to show that I am
    I'm not sure if this is due to programs not properly clearing out the ram when they are closed or what
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  2. Posts : 6,879
    Win 7 Ultimate x64
       #12

    Or instead of looking for a band-aid you could try and figure out which program is causing the problem and check for updates or an alternative.

    If you want to try and figure out what is causing it start with this,

    Process Explorer

    provides more info than Windows own tools.
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  3. Posts : 32
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #13

    what if it's something I can't replace, or it's multiple applications, or just windows itself?
    I keep most of my stuff up to date if possible. I know firefox sometimes has some leak issues...but I don't know if that's the same as it not removing memory it has allocated for itself. and I'm not giving up my firefox =)

    I don't think that software will be of any use. it's only going to tell me about currently opened processed....dlls they have loaded and so forth.
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  4. Posts : 32
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #14

    for anyone else that this may be helpful too:
    it seems the main program responsible for over allocating all my RAM was the windows indexer
    I rebooted and decided to kill some processes prior to see if any of them were the culprits
    upon killing it my RAM use dropped about 1.5GB - 2GB even though task manager reported it as using only 100MB or so
    this was undoubtedly related to me rebuilding the index database earlier that day (I guess indexing ~2million items takes a good chunk of RAM =P)
    it'd still be nice to have a RAM defrag / scrubber for situations where (closed or open) applications unnecessarily still have allocated space though. so if anyone knows of anything, let me know
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  5. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #15

    It looks to me you just have to many things running at the same time. Winamp, several browsers, ect. Your ram and Windows 7 looks like it is working properly you just have a lot of things open all at one time.
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  6. Posts : 29
    XP Pro and Windows7 32 bit
       #16

    pacaveli420 said:
    so if anyone knows of anything, let me know
    CleanMem v.1.5.1 | PcWinTech.com

    If the problem is that processes are holding on to RAM, this works quite well.
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  7. Posts : 32
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #17

    thnx for the reply Johnson, will check that out!
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  8. Posts : 824
    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
       #18

    Johnson said:
    pacaveli420 said:
    so if anyone knows of anything, let me know
    CleanMem v.1.5.1 | PcWinTech.com

    If the problem is that processes are holding on to RAM, this works quite well.
    For full benefit, Right click and select Run as administrator.
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  9. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #19

    pacaveli420 said:
    thnx for the reply Johnson, will check that out!
    This program was mentioned on another board. Apparently it works by enumerating running process and calling EmptyWorkingSet() API call on each process.

    A better solution may be to set Superfetch to cache only boot files by setting
    EnablePrefetcher and EnableSuperfetch registry keys to 2.

    See this link and my comment at the bottom:

    Change SuperFetch to Only Cache System Boot Files in Vista - How-To Geek
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  10. Posts : 477
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, Windows Developer Preview, Linux Mint 9 Gnome 32 Bit
       #20

    Well if there are still a lot of free RAM space, let Windows take care of it. If you feel you are getting a little bit low on free memory, close any programs that are not in use or consuming a lot of resources. Doing a quick Goggle search will make a lot of results.

    I have used RAM cleaners. Apparently, if you have cleared too much RAM, your PC might hang for a while.
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