Quick overview:
After you have started a program or a game, you will notice that the working memory no longer has the size it had directly after starting Windows. This is due to the inadequate memory management of this operating system.
Under Windows 2000 or XP this problem is avoided as far as possible, but even here the memory management does not work perfectly. There are therefore programs for Windows that can clear the memory of leftovers on request. I present here a tip with which you can restore the working memory by double-clicking without robbing processor or RAM resources with additional programs:
1. Right-click on a free area of the desktop and select from the context menu that appears New > Text file. They call them Clear the memory (but the name doesn't matter).
2. Double-click on the text file and enter only the following line: FreeMem = Space(32000000)
3. Click on File > Save as... and select under file type All files. Now write the extension .vbs. In my example, the file now reads: Clear memory.vbs.
4. Each time you double-click on this file, your memory is cleared of additional ballast - by exactly 32MB (this is why the number 32000000 is in the line above). For example, if you want to gain 64MB, write 64000000 in the brackets. However, you should NEVER enter more than half of your working memory here - otherwise you could at best receive an error message or at worst your system could crash. So be careful!
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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