Remove closed programs from memory

[Alex Barna]

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600)
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
512 Megabytes Installed Memory

After running programs with large data files I need to reboot to get
back to normal speed.

It there a way to get windows XP to remove closed programs from memory
without having to reboot?

Alex B.,

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600)
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
512 Megabytes Installed Memory

After running programs with large data files I need to reboot to get back
to normal speed.

It there a way to get windows XP to remove closed programs from memory
without having to reboot?

Alex B.,

Depends on the programs and how they were written. You might contact the
authors and see what they say. You can use Process Explorer to identify
and kill processes that should have ended and didn't.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

HTH
-pk

 

[Alex Barna]

Depends on the programs and how they were written. You might contact the
authors and see what they say. You can use Process Explorer to identify
and kill processes that should have ended and didn't.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

HTH
-pk

What I was referring to is this bit from a web site selling a Memory
Boost program "Windows lets closed programs stay in memory; that's why
you have to reboot your computer to keep the performance up."

I was hoping Microsoft had a way to accomplish the same thing since most
people running home computers don't need programs & data files kept in
memory for fast reloading.

When I run the Microsoft Works Spreadsheet I don't need it in memory for
a week or more untill I'm going to run it again.

Alex B.,

 

[Patrick Keenan]

What I was referring to is this bit from a web site selling a Memory Boost
program "Windows lets closed programs stay in memory; that's why you have
to reboot your computer to keep the performance up."

I was hoping Microsoft had a way to accomplish the same thing since most
people running home computers don't need programs & data files kept in
memory for fast reloading.

When I run the Microsoft Works Spreadsheet I don't need it in memory for a
week or more untill I'm going to run it again.

Alex B.,

That may have been the case for Win9x, and that had other major issues with
resource leakage that required reboots - you could eventually run out of
resources running nothing but Windows. It really isn't remotely the same
problem with XP, so the answer is yes, MS did come up with a way to remove
non-running and closed programs from memory. It was called Windows NT, and
is now sold as XP.

HTH
-pk