If you covet your RAM like Gollum coveted the ring, then Instant Memory Cleaner should be one of the tools in your toolbox. Designed for XP and Vista, Instant Memory Cleaner frees up your memory by forcing pages out of physical memory and reducing the size of running processes' working sets to a minimum.
The program sits in your Windows Taskbar; when clicked, it pops up a small and simple interface. There's a button to show you real time memory usage (with stats for physical memory, pagefile, and virtual memory), another to click for help, and one that will initialize the memory freeing process.
Short, sweet, and now you know it complete.
Instant Memory Cleaner is a free download for XP and Vista.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-07-2008 @ 2:21PM
Steve said...
OMG, why is this site promoting garbage like this? The only thing these memory cleaners do is slow down your system, especially in Vista. That stuff in memory, it's cached so that your system will be far more responsive. What is the point of having your memory sitting there empty doing nothing? If a program needs more memory Windows WILL release memory for it.
I thought programs like this were debunked as being useless and even detrimental years ago, it saddens me to see them still being hoisted on unknowledgable users. :(
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2-07-2008 @ 2:49PM
Crome Tysnomi said...
What Steve said. This memory freeing bollucks does nothing but increase HDD activity with swapping (forcing pages out? what the hell?!) therefore making idle programs even a bigger pain to bring back to focus and whatnot.
Physical memory is there for a reason: To be used up by all the processes to store everything for quick access. Paging out to VM is equivalent to replacing petrol with water in a car fuel system.
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2-07-2008 @ 3:01PM
carl said...
Ewww, no thanks. I got 4GB of ram for 75$ (before rebate), and I intend to use it.
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2-07-2008 @ 3:27PM
LySiNe said...
I turn on Disable Paging Executive just to make the machine faster. And now they want to page it out. Boo...
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2-07-2008 @ 4:38PM
Simon Kerbel said...
Hello everybody:
Thanks for all of your comments. Here's what we know: the program is actually just a front end for Microsoft's command line "ClearMem" for Windows XP and "FreeMem" for Windows Vista. Is this program useful for clearing out memory that might be "held on to" by old applications and processes? Maybe someone smarter than us can tell us that.
It's not our policy to retract reviews unless the facts of the review are incorrect. A program like this does exist; it states what its purpose is; it's up to the users to download it and see if it does what it says. In our experience, we downloaded and installed it, and it did what it said.
Thanks for listening!
Simon
DS
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2-07-2008 @ 4:38PM
Simon Kerbel said...
Hello everybody:
Thanks for all of your comments. Here's what we know: the program is actually just a front end for Microsoft's command line "ClearMem" for Windows XP and "FreeMem" for Windows Vista. Is this program useful for clearing out memory that might be "held on to" by old applications and processes? Maybe someone smarter than us can tell us that.
It's not our policy to retract reviews unless the facts of the review are incorrect. A program like this does exist; it states what its purpose is; it's up to the users to download it and see if it does what it says. In our experience, we downloaded and installed it, and it did what it said.
Thanks for listening!
Simon
DS
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2-07-2008 @ 11:18PM
hazard said...
Simon, I wouldn't worry too much about comments from people who [seemingly] don't know or care about anything beyond their backyard ;)
2-07-2008 @ 4:55PM
Mikado said...
Not this "free your precious RAM" garbage again. As much as we rail against Microsoft, they do have some very smart people working on the operating system kernel, and one of the things they have gotten very good at is RAM management. Blindly dumping pages from RAM does absolutely no good whatsoever, and interferes with a system process that already knows what it's doing.
Retract this review, please.
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2-07-2008 @ 6:25PM
Scott said...
Hmmm... I beg to differ. For years, I've used AMS Fast Defrag (www.amsn.ro/index.php?action=2), and the memory-clearing function is fast & quite useful (when you adjust the settings properly).
Is it "...useful for clearing out memory that might be 'held on to' by old applications and processes?" I can't speak for the program profiled here, but I know AMS Fast Defrag absolutely is--particularly on older PCs, or PCs without much RAM (like the sad PCs I support at my job).
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2-08-2008 @ 12:26AM
Stuart said...
Programs like this are a joke. Things that claim to defrag your memory are a joke. Yes, you can defrag _files_, like your swap file, and that will help performance some, but you can not defrag memory.
Forcing all of your memory to page out is just going to slow down your system. Don't use this.
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2-08-2008 @ 2:54AM
NyaR said...
You guys are supposed to be, at least, relatively informed. Why would you post this??? Are they paying you?
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2-08-2008 @ 3:17AM
Dodfr said...
Hello,
As developper I have to say that such tool is totally useless, Windows already knows when it must swap mem to disk and switch it back, forcing it mean more time to get memory back for all programs as soon as you switch back to them.
And the funniest thing is : just look at the amount of memory such tool use for itself ;-)
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2-08-2008 @ 5:50AM
Jreg said...
AnalogX MaxMem, far better.
Because some people dont have slots for 4GB of ram. Go away.
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