If you covet your RAM like Gollum coveted the ring, then Instant Memory Cleaner should be one of the tools in your toolbox. 
While Firefox enthusiasts swear that the web browser is the best invention since sliced bread or the scientific calculator, there's no question that Firefox can be a bit of a memory hog. When you load your first window, the browser zips along smoothly. But open a few more tabs, do a little navigating back and forth, and before you know it Firefox is eating up half of your system's RAM.
Sometimes you want to know exactly what is going on with your hard drive. If that's the case, you'll want to try DriveGLEAM. It can monitor physical drives as well as partitions for activity, and report how much free space is left. All of this is done via system tray icons. DriveGLEAM is primarily a hard drive monitoring utility, but also has a few other tricks up its sleeve, like monitoring available system RAM and virtual RAM, as well as CPU load.
For the ambitious folks, DriveGLEAM also offers an odd feature of sending the hard drive's status to the parallel port so that physical LEDs can be wired to flash appropriately. Personally this is a bit of overkill (seeing the drive status in my system tray is good enough for me), but I can imagine that there are those of you out there for whom this would make a great mod.
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.
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