Optimizing Windows Memory Usage with Minimem
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed. Most of the times you need to identify and close applications that consume a lot of memory usage or reboot computer in order to solve the performance issue. Instead of taking action only when you encounter the slowdown issue, now there is a utility, named as Minimem that is able to proactively optimizes processes by reducing memory usage running in background.
Minimem is a free utility that is originally designed to reduce memory usage caused by Firefox only, but now it has been enhanced to optimize memory usage for any other applications by staying at system tray and running silently in the background. You can configure to optimize as many processes as you preferred and at the same time, it provides you some options to configure the interval to optimize memory regularly, do not optimize if overall RAM available is more than the specific memory usage as well as do not optimize the foreground process. Once processes are selected to be optimized, it will optimize memory by removing as many of non-necessary pages as possible on every interval in order to ensure low CPU usage at all times. These removed pages will only be loaded back whenever there are needed to further optimize the overall system by fully-utilizing the memory usage.
Minimem version 1.3 (minimem1.3.msi) by minimem.kerkia.net has a user-friendly GUI and doesn’t require any special skill to operate, it is tested and confirmed running well on Windows XP 32 bits SP3 and should support all Windows versions. The only pre-requisite to run Minimem is you must have .Net Framework 2.0 installed on your computer.
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October 12th, 2009 23:24
[...] free to download and is compatible to run on Windows XP/2000. Alternatively, you can refer to Minimem or HLP Free Memory Optimizer for other options with similar [...]
September 28th, 2009 23:12
[...] your PC system that can directly impact the PC performance. While there are various tools such as Minimem or RAMRush that can be used to reduce and optimize memory usage, but in case you are not truly [...]
August 25th, 2009 14:04
Here’s a screenshot of how i have “MiniMem” setup .. this is mainly for the “slow” people who are illiterate..
http://i27.tinypic.com/2qn9mk2.jpg
August 25th, 2009 14:00
@ Brian Retard..
You must own a crappy PC or it’s old as hell !
Or you must be soooo stupid that you can’t figure out how to use it …
You have to go to “Settings” and add all of your PC’s Processes that are running to the Left Pane in “MiniMem” ..
Also set how often you want it to optimize..
i have it set to 5 seconds.. with all running processes added .. i also have “Hide if memory <" unchecked so all processes are shown .. i also have both checkboxes at the bottom unchecked ..
you have to learn how to read bro..
Here's a screenshot of my improvements with "MiniMem"
http://i28.tinypic.com/2jd4aqw.jpg
August 25th, 2009 10:44
This was kind of a waste of time.
1. using a program to conserve memory that takes memory to use?
2. I had 54 processes. My memory was running at 44% in Taskmanager, I went through every single process, unticked all options at bottom that omit optimization to attempt the most strict optimization this program can claim to do. I went down 2% . This did absolutely nothing for me.
IF you get 10% gains let me know. Even that would be worth keeping this program for download. (ps the download was broken so I had to manually search) Right now it is a waste of time.
August 25th, 2009 02:42
Sweet Apps.!
Very simple to setup and use..
and really does help..
especially for PCs/Laptops that do not have the fastest CPU or RAM ..