On this very forum, in other thread. If I can not trust dev, I can hardly trust the software. I stopped recommend it as well as Windows Repair.
@TairikuOkami I don't know how would get that idea based on any of the posts I've seen from Shane here. Personally, I'm extremely grateful form the many hours he spends developing Windows Repair, as it is truly an excellent product, and is very good at fixing Windows issues.
Another vote for Memreduct https://www.henrypp.org/product/memreduct From the same guy who made chrlauncher (Chromium updater) Latest release CPU usage is only 0.02% and RAM usage went down to 1.8MB Compared to 0.33% CPU usage and 8.5MB of Cleanmem
I have never used any memory reducing apps before, however, I do have a lot of respect for this developer and trust several of his other apps. My main ultrabook right now is using 4.6GB of 16GB RAM, showing some 11.1GB free RAM in task manager. I am wondering, would there be any benefit in using this app in circumstances where you never run into low memory issues? Are there any privacy or security related benefits to clearing additional memory? Thank you.
MemPlus v1.0 (February 26, 2018) Website Download: Installer: https://codedead.com/Software/MemPlus/MP_setup.exe Portable: https://codedead.com/Software/MemPlus/MP_portable.zip Requirement: .NET Framework v4.7.1 MemPlus memory management software for Windows review February 27, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/27/memplus-memory-management-software-for-windows-review/
This is the one I been using on my laptops well over a year now and is really a benefit for me since I normally have about 12 windows from 2 different browsers open at any one time and in between can do video editing etc without the system locking up to force a hard reset.
FireMin for those who use Firefox or derivatives (PaleMoon, Cliqz, etc). Though FF has cleaned up much of its act on memory leaks, this product works well. If you have an old XP & FF it is a MUST. https://www.rizonesoft.com/downloads/firemin/ They have some good stuff including Complete Internet Repair and Memory Booster which works like CleanMem (not snake oil). His Ownership utility is also useful at times (Win < 10).
MemPlus v1.1 Released (March 6, 2018) Requirement: .NET Framework v4.7.1 Website Spoiler: Changelog v1.1 Change log Added drag and drop functionality to the exclusion list Added ability to start MemPlus minimized Added a log when RAM Analyzer could not retrieve information Added ability to select RAM Optimizer method in main window Added restart capabilities Added notifications (optional) when window is hidden and RAM was cleared Added ‘Clear memory’ button to the notifyicon Added a warning message when running without Administrative rights Added a new theme Added a setting to enable or disable RAM clearing statistics message Added a setting to enable or disable window dragging Added a setting for emptying working sets Added a setting to change the window opacity Added a setting to change the resize border thickness Fixed NtSetSystemInformation call Fixed negative update intervals Fixed possible exception when closing the application Minor design changes to improve user experience Included latest UpdateManager library Included latest theme version Image compression to reduce space Updated help documentation
MemPlus v1.2 Released (March 13, 2018) Website / Announcement Spoiler: Changelog v1.2 Change log Added Process Analyzer tool Added ability to dock windows Added ability to change RAM usage warning level Added ability to change window dragging from MainWindow Added ability to display RAM statistics in the notify icon Added ability to display statistics when automatically optimizing RAM Fixed MemPlus closing when RAM Analyzer could not retrieve data Fixed possibly retrieving wrong error message when optimizing RAM Fixed some minor issues when exporting logs or data that is non-existent Fixed spelling mistakes in GUI Fixed automatic log clearing not deleting all log types Included latest UpdateManager library Included latest theme version Updated help documentation Requirement: .NET Framework v4.7.1
Another alternative: Wise Memory Optimizer - "Easy to defrag memory and free up more memory with one-click" Wise Memory Optimizer v3.6.2 (May 28, 2018) Website Download
Mem Reduct v3.3.4 Released (October 20, 2018) Website Download Wise Memory Optimizer v3.6.3 (October 23, 2018) Website Download
Intelligent standby list cleaner v1.0.1.0 (October 21, 2018) Requirements: Windows 10, administrator privileges, .NET Announcement Forum Download: https://www.wagnardsoft.com/ISLC/ISLC%20v1.0.1.0.exe Spoiler: Changes Changes since 1.0.0.0 - Configurable option: clear when standby list is XXXXMB and when Free memory is lower than XXXXmb. - Show some approximate memory information. - Can minimize to systray. Changes since 1.0.0.1 - Prevent G-SYNC to activate for the app (by disable hardware gpu acceleration for the app). Thanks Blaire for the suggestion. Changes since 1.0.0.3 - Added mbk1969 safer code for purging the standby list. - Added a checkbox to run the application minimized and started. - Added a "Purge" button to manually purge the standby list. - User settings are now saved. Changes since 1.0.0.4 - Code cleanup and several optimization on the GUI updating (WPF binding) - Others misc stuff not worth to mention. Changes since 1.0.0.5 - Free Memory and Standby list value now more precise (same as task manager) - More CPU efficient. Changes since 1.0.0.6 - More CPU efficient. (Thanks to mbk1969 for some of the tweak ex: bit-shift.) Changes since 1.0.0.7 - Added information about the Windows "Current timer resolution" and the possibility to change it. (Thanks "mbk1969" for the suggestion.) - Start faster than previous version. Changes since 1.0.0.8 - On x64 OS, start as a 64bit process. - Allow only 1 instance of the application - Added some MessageBox information when the application encounter an error instead of just closing or crashing. Changes since 1.0.0.9 - Fixed an issue preventing the app to work on some OS (pre Windows 10).
A little review of three of these programs. Cleanmem Positive: - I like the Mini Monitor. - Low RAM usage Negative: - The setup installs a service that runs every ~15 min. I can't disable this in the options. - The uninstaller has been placed in "C:\Windows\CleanMem\uninstall.exe" and the folder remains after deinstallation. GRRR MemPlus Positive: - Looks good Negative: - But because it looks good it uses ~60 to 100 MB RAM itself. - Update rate of the usage monitor dial is 0.5 FPS Mem Reduct Positive: - Low RAM usage Negative: - Design is very spartan. Winner: Mem Reduct
I may be mistaken, but I believe that you can change how often CleanMem runs either via task scheduler or else via the mini monitor. You can set it to run how ever often you want it to run.
- Did you tell CLEANMEM to also "collapse" the file cache as well ? I know that some programs create a VERY large file cache. I have seen file caches that were 1, 2 and even 3 GBs in size. And then a part of the filecache will be stored in the pagefile on disk. And that swapping data between the pagefile and the computer memory will slow down your system (dramatically). - Let's assume that you have a memory of 8 GBs and the "In use" memory (think: Resource Monitor in e.g. Windows 7) of say 6 GB then a file of 2 GB occupies 2 GB of that "In Use" memory. Collapsing the file cache with CLEANMEM will move those 2 GBs to the "Standby" part of the memory. That will force the regular Windows memory management to make a decision what to do with all the data in that "Standby" memory
