Optimizing RAM in Win7

[mach04]

Is there an internal software in Win 7 that optimizes the RAM?

 

[biggles1000]

you could try RAMRush - RAM Optimizer Memory Optimizer or windows ready boost (uses a flash drive to store temp ram stuff)

 

[Phone Man]

Windows 7 does a very good job of handling the memory. I would just leave it alone. Sometimes you can do more harm with these "snake oil" remedies.

Jim

 

[biggles1000]

Windows 7 does a very good job of handling the memory. I would just leave it alone. Sometimes you can do more harm with these "snake oil" remedies.

Jim

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Windows 7 works best with a minimum of 2GB of RAM. If you have less, then I'm afraid those are the only solutions and they aren't very effective.

 

[Bill2]

Please avoid all these ram optimizers.

All that these so called optimizers do is this- they call a Windows function that forces apps to to write out memory to the pagefile, or they allot and then withdraw a large amount of memory quickly so that Windows is forced to page a lot of stuff. As a result it appears that a lot of memory has been freed up, while what you have actually done is switch to the much slower hard drive pagefile from the very fast ram.

Memory is not a cosmetic item, its meant to be used efficiently and windows does a pretty good job.

 

[biggles1000]

ah, good point.
to sum up then: don't use ram optimizing programs, ready boost would be your best bet but if you have less than 2GB and find it unbearably slow, switch to XP

 

[whs]

find it unbearably slow, switch to XP

I don't think that would help. Most people found Win7 to be just as fast (or slow) as XP. If you have little RAM, buy some more. RAM really not expensive these days.

And as was already said, keep off all those wonder drugs. They are nothing but trouble.

Go into Resource Monitor > Memory tab and make a snip of the colored bar. Post that here and we will have a look.

 

[biggles1000]

find it unbearably slow, switch to XP

I don't think that would help. Most people found Win7 to be just as fast (or slow) as XP. If you have little RAM, buy some more. RAM really not expensive these days.

And as was already said, keep off all those wonder drugs. They are nothing but trouble.

Go into Resource Monitor > Memory tab and make a snip of the colored bar. Post that here and we will have a look.

well, XP has a 64MB RAM minimum requirement, 7 has 512MB
depends how bloated your system gets though. as yeah, an xp system can get incredibly slow after a while.

 

[mach04]

There is a command to enter which I can not remember. There should be a way to that through control panel -> adminstration but I can't see any.
Any
one knows that command?

 

[biggles1000]

if you press ctrl-shift-esc you can bring up the task manager. navigate to the performance tab, that'll show your ram usage.

 

[cluberti]

Well, sort of - Resource monitor is much more accurate showing actual usage of RAM, and Process Explorer is also good. Task manager, not so much.

 

[whs]

You are trying to fumble. Why don't you post a picture of your Resource Monitor > Memory tab and we'll see whether you have a problem to start with.

 

[BugMeister]

There is a command to enter which I can not remember. There should be a way to that through control panel -> adminstration but I can't see any.
Any
one knows that command?

just type resource monitor in the search box..

 

[mach04]

In the Start Menu search box, type mdsched and press Enter. A window pops up and gives you two options, to restart now and check for the problems, or the next time you start it will check for the problem.

Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool | Windows Vista, XP and Windows 7 Tutorials

 

[Phone Man]

There is a command to enter which I can not remember. There should be a way to that through control panel -> adminstration but I can't see any.
Any
one knows that command?

just type resource monitor in the search box..

Open Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc) and there is a link to Resource Monitor.



Jim

 

[Maxxwire]

With my 32 bit Vista computer I was able to slash the amount of RAM used to boot to the desktop from 1.1 GB down to just over 500 MB and cut the amount of daily RAM usage by 67%, but I have as yet found no way to accomplish this kind of radical RAM use reduction with my Win x64 computer.

~Maxx~

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[biggles1000]

considering that's Vista, VERY impressive!

 

[Maxxwire]

considering that's Vista, VERY impressive!

What I'm saying is that is Vista as I have come to know it.

~Maxx~

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[biggles1000]

you must be one of the few people that actually got to experience how nice Vista actually was!

 

[whs]

you must be one of the few people that actually got to experience how nice Vista actually was!

Not true, Vista is a great system and I love it. But one has to move on. I really do not understand how people can still stay on e.g. XP - or ME like one of my neighbors.