Quick overview:
After you have started a program or a game, you will notice that the working memory after exiting the program no longer has the size it had directly after starting Windows. This is due to the insufficient memory management of this operating system.
With Windows 2000 or XP this problem is avoided as far as possible, but our Windows 98 still has some problems here. There are therefore programs for Windows that can clear the memory of leftovers on request. Here is a tip that you can use to restore the working memory by double-clicking without robbing processor or RAM resources with additional programs:
Restoring working memory - conserving resources
1. Right-click on a free area of the desktop and select New > Text file from the context menu that appears. This is called Free up 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 All files under File type. Now write the extension .vbs after the file name. In my example, the file is now: Free up memory.vbs.
4. Every 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 memory here - otherwise you could receive an error message in the best case or, in the worst case, your system could crash. So be careful!
Attention: Internet Explorer 6.0 is required to run VBS scripts under Windows 98, which you can get here.
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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