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Re: Davids tip - Re: reclaiming memory



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How about utilities or tips to reclaim Win98 User Resources and GDI
Resources?  I can barely make it through the day without rebooting if I have
several applications to open and close.  I tried MemTurbo, but it is just
not designed to reclaim resources.


----- Original Message -----
From: David Elden <eldenworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: October 6, 1999 10:14
Subject: RE: Davids tip - Re: reclaiming memory

> I got this off a Tweak site, and as far as I remember what it does is put
a
> big space into memory. So windows has to move out anything that is not
being
> used by other programs to accomodate it.
>
> What you can do to test it is run System Monitor and just do a before and
> after. Run a pile of memory hogs, netscape, tradestation, etc. then hit
the
> memory.vbs. You will see your memory go down to zero and then clear. Free
> Mem does the exact same thing, but in a slightly different way. I dont
know
> how Rambooster does it's thing but I think it is pretty similar, just a
> different interface on the same concept.
>
> If I am totally wrong about this and someone knows the " real " answer,
> please feel free to spill the beans.
>
> d
>
>
>
> Hi David
> Thanks for the tip.
> Can you explain what happens when we do what you suugests.
> It helps to know
>
> Thanks
> Mike
> >  Open notepad,
> >  Paste in this line:
> >  Mystring = Space(16000000)
> >  Save as whatever you want, with the extension  .vbs
> >  On my system it is memory.vbs