Comments on: SweepRAM

By: Review Unit

Review Unit — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:04:11 +0000

this one is as COOL as ICE…..i never knew this one…thanks for sharing…its too cool

By: add

add — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:08:47 +0000

good

By: Kaji

Kaji — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:05:32 +0000

*sigh* Some people…
Please, first read the article, or render thyself.. well.. pretty silly!

By: anthony

anthony — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:54:27 +0000

“RAM Optimizers” are a joke, people. RAM is allocated by the program’s necessity by the OS. Programs need memory to function at all. This is another program to allocate memory to itself so that the computer “feels” faster. At the very best, it will allocate all available memory, thus causing non-essential and unused program memory to be “swapped” to your swap file. Then free it up so that all the used-but-now-swapped memory is free to be used by whichever program you are now using.

Think of it like how the “rice boys” fix up their cars. With all the wings and stickers they sure look and feel fast, but all they are doing is making themselves feel that way with no real improvement of performance.

The reason things are slow is not because there isn’t any free RAM, its that your OS is swapping your RAM out to your paging/swap file. Try:

1. Setting a stack size of 2x to 3x of your available physical RAM. I.E. set your swapfile to 2GB if you have 1GB of physical RAM (The sticks of RAM). Set your swapfile to 1GB if you have 512MB. Suggestions, not the law, increase as necessary.

2. Close your unused programs and services.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:44:50 +0000

great job

By: richard

richard — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:22:55 +0000

Appears to work in Vista

By: Jerome

Jerome — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:51:24 +0000

Tried to run the app but got the following message: Sweep Ram.dll was loaded, but the DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. This file cannot be registered. What did I do wrong?

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Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:52:51 +0000

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By: inspirat

inspirat — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:29:11 +0000

Does this work in windows vista?

By: Samer

Samer — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:25:15 +0000

Brian… did you even read the review? I agree that memory optimizers are useless, and that memory usage is a good thing… in fact this program was built with this premise in mind.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:21:21 +0000

These programs are useless. I don’t care if I have 99% memory usage. It’s what I bought all the RAM for.

By: Midas

Midas — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:48:12 +0000

Actually the exe I downloaded just now states that it is version 0.0.0.3…

By: y0himba

y0himba — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:47:58 +0000

This one works. I was using a shortcut:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

which works quite well also. However, this one is faster and recovers more available memory.

By: nerkel

nerkel — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:43:40 +0000

I must say, this actually worked for me! Whether or not this was really increased RAM, or a sort of placebo effect, I still don’t know, but my windows seemed to load a bit better…