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Optimize Windows' memory usage with Cacheman
by Jordan Running Feb 2nd 2006 at 4:05PM
As I've mentioned in previous
posts, for the number of apps I tend to run concurrently, my system is starved for RAM. Yes, I know this could be easily
remedied, but until I get around to it I'm really enjoying Cacheman, a Windows app from Outer
Technologies that's "designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and
a number of other settings." In addition to helping you tweak some settings to give your computer a little boost,
Cacheman also has a great memory recovery mode that'll monitor your computer's memory use and, when it's running low,
shuffle things around in RAM and free up anywhere from (in my experience) 10-50MB of physical memory. For that feature
alone Cacheman is worth it's weight in gold, but fortunately for us software doesn't weigh anything and Cacheman is
free.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Wolverine said 7:18PM on 2-06-2006
I used this a long time ago. When running on a very old pc I could play full screen Divx video without any problems. Without it video was very choppy. So if you have a very slow computer I recommend this very highly.
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