You can however, set this value yourself or turn it off altogether and run optimizations manually. The program starts in “Intelligent Memory Optimization” mode which will run at an interval decided by Memory Booster, it was 20-25 seconds during testing. There’s also a few useful graphs to show these memory values live and the current CPU usage. The main window offers a good amount of information about how much memory is in use, how much of the pagefile is in use and the amount of virtual memory the system is using. Like the Wise utility above, Memory Booster is portable and easy to use and also impressively uses no more than a Megabyte of memory while sitting in the system tray or while optimizing.

Previously called Datum Memory Booster, this is another program that uses Windows API calls to reduce the amount of working memory reserved by a process. Here we show you 6 free tools that can help reduce the memory your system is using and keep it running more smoothly for longer. This gives a program the memory it actually needs and not what it asks for, reducing the amount of used memory while not impacting on the performance of your computer

Thankfully there are ways to get around this issue through software which is able to reduce the amount of memory a system process consumes by using a documented feature in the Windows API. It’s not always possible to put more memory into an aging computer simply due to high costs for old types of RAM or a lack of RAM slots, such as in a laptop or netbook.

As we know, a hard drive is much slower than RAM and this is why a system with a low amount of memory can start to slow down really quickly with several programs running at once, or a web browser with many tabs open, for example. When Windows starts to run out of physical memory it offloads data to the page file which is stored on your hard drive. One of the biggest upgrades you can make to an older computer is being sure it has enough memory (RAM) to handle the operating system and all the programs you want to run on it.

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