Free Up System Memory In XP

I've noticed over the years that especially with some AV apps, or things similar, that when first starting XP many of these applications use up quite a bit of ram as they get started, doing their thing, scanning in the background, etc., or just getting loaded.

Then with all the ram being used it seems like XP never gets it back, you look at the Task Manager as as example only have one Window open to see the ram is at like 500MB of usage. For me av apps and the like are the biggest problem of sucking up the ram on startup and never getting it back.

It the past I used programs for flushing the ram, clearing it out, but have drifted away from such practices.

Are there really any apps to use that do help flush/clear out ram that are worthwhile to have for such situations?

I used one in the past I can't remember the name, but if I do I'll post it here...

I know there are a lot of apps out there, just wondering how much fact from fiction all this is and if there is something that really helps and is safe?


THANKS

 

CleanMem and Shane will answer your questions!

http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem

 

I've heard of CleanMem, Shane is the developer?

Do you use this?

THANKS

 

I use CleanMem and it has been great, keeps memory usage low.. I have set it to run every 10 minutes instead the default 30 minutes

 

Yeah I have it installed right now running every 10mins with some apps in the log settings;

;start list here on next line
a2guard.exe
a2service.exe
communicator.exe
firefox.exe
iexplorer.exe
OUTLOOK.EXE
plugin-container.exe

I hope this thing works good...


THANKS

 

Hi DasFox,

Since CleanMem uses EmptyWorkingSet API - like 'empty.exe' MS tool - I think it could not empty working set for the processes like 'a2guard.exe' and/or 'a2service.exe'.

Can you check that to me? Thanks in advance.

 

I've been trying the free MemBoost by Rizone for a few weeks. No problems with it and very light.