SofoTex.com - Freeware of the week Feb-09-2004

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SofoTex.com - Freeware of the week Feb-09-2004
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Rambooster
A handy little program that makes you more free RAM after Windows has
filled it. This causes your PC to run smoother and faster, and you
don't have to reboot it so often anymore.
http://www.sofotex.com/Rambooster-download_L213.html


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[Toby]

SofoTex.com - Freeware of the week Feb-09-2004
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Rambooster
A handy little program that makes you more free RAM after Windows has
filled it. This causes your PC to run smoother and faster, and you
don't have to reboot it so often anymore.
http://www.sofotex.com/Rambooster-download_L213.html

Don't waste your time on this rambooster or any other software of
similar nature. They can do more harm than good in certain cases. And
it is an undisputable fact that there is still no substitute for more
physical ram if you system is not performing as it should.

Mason

 

[Bob Adkins]

Don't waste your time on this rambooster or any other software of
similar nature. They can do more harm than good in certain cases. And
it is an undisputable fact that there is still no substitute for more
physical ram if you system is not performing as it should.

Well said.

It's been proven by objective tests that "ram boosters" of this type do not
provide any benefit. Some people get a kick out of a graphical
representation of the ram being cleared or de-fragged, and would like the
program regardless of whether it works.

Sort of disappoints me. Sofotex is one of my favorite download sites.

Bob

Remove "kins" from address to reply.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Well said.

Well said.

It's been proven by objective tests that "ram boosters" of this type do not
provide any benefit.

Obviously written by someone who hasn't used it.

< snip >

Noticed a big improvement when I installed it.

Regards, John.

 

[Matt]

Well said.

It's been proven by objective tests that "ram boosters" of this type do not
provide any benefit. Some people get a kick out of a graphical
representation of the ram being cleared or de-fragged, and would like the
program regardless of whether it works.

There IS some case for running an "on demand" memory free-up before a
memory demanding application (I found some games were definitely more
responsive).

But what most of these do, to "free" or "compact" memory, is to
allocate contiguous chunk of RAM of the size specified.
The folly of automatic use of this becomes clear...

"I'm running out of free memory, what shall I do?"
"Eat another 16Mb"

The Windows logic, is that free memory is wasted memory, so low-value
data like cached DLL files, huge disk caches etc. are allowed to use
memory when there is little demand, but will be sacrificed in favour
of more important uses as required.