Comments on: How to clean up your Windows XP memory http://buzzblogging.com/tweaks/how-to-clean-up-your-windows-xp-memory/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:27:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Larry Miller http://buzzblogging.com/tweaks/how-to-clean-up-your-windows-xp-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-6582 Larry Miller Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:23:43 +0000 http://buzzblogging.com/tweaks/how-to-clean-up-your-windows-xp-memory/#comment-6582 Actually XP is very good at memory management. Some people who really understand how it works have described it as brilliant. Unfortunately, it is very much misunderstood. A prime example is the above command. It was never designed to free memory and does not actually do that. XP is more than capable of doing that on it's own without any user intervention. By default XP has a number of system maintenance tasks that by default are run every 3 days. These run during idle time and normally do not impair performance. The command above runs these tasks immediately. This may mean high disk and CPU usage for up to 15 minutes. I have tried this comand with Task Manager open. Memory usage went up while running and did not fall after completion. The memory that had been shown as available was now in the system cache. This is the correct behaviour and what was expected. But not at all as the author describes. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA Actually XP is very good at memory management. Some people who really understand how it works have described it as brilliant.

Unfortunately, it is very much misunderstood. A prime example is the above command. It was never designed to free memory and does not actually do that. XP is more than capable of doing that on it’s own without any user intervention.

By default XP has a number of system maintenance tasks that by default are run every 3 days. These run during idle time and normally do not impair performance. The command above runs these tasks immediately. This may mean high disk and CPU usage for up to 15 minutes.

I have tried this comand with Task Manager open. Memory usage went up while running and did not fall after completion. The memory that had been shown as available was now in the system cache. This is the correct behaviour and what was expected. But not at all as the author describes.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

]]> By: clean memory http://buzzblogging.com/tweaks/how-to-clean-up-your-windows-xp-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-356 clean memory Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:04:50 +0000 http://buzzblogging.com/tweaks/how-to-clean-up-your-windows-xp-memory/#comment-356 Thanks for your suggestion and I think trying this would increase my PC performance and remove all unwanted memory space of my PC. I have listened somewhere that there are some database codes even to increase the pace. Is it true, how far. Thanks for your suggestion and I think trying this would increase my PC performance and remove all unwanted memory space of my PC. I have listened somewhere that there are some database codes even to increase the pace. Is it true, how far.

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