Get The Best Freeware Tools For Windows To Optimize RAM Consumption
Depending on the Windows operating system version you may use, number of simultaneous running processes and the type of the computer hardware, the performance of a certain application could depend mainly on the amount of free RAM. Various shareware and freeware software that could improve the performances of an operating system by overriding the built-in RAM management process are available for download.
Regarding Windows XP operating system that provides superior mechanisms of RAM management, there are opinions that the memory optimization tools could not change visibly the performance of running applications. On the other hand, the RAM optimizers actions are visible on older computers running processes having large memory footprints like image processors, video processing software, Firefox web browser and more.
For example, it is well known that when a user opens a new tab in Firefox browser, the percent of free RAM decreases. In the next screenshots is shown the difference between the RAM consumption or the quantity of free RAM in case of an Windows XP operating system in absence and in presence of a running memory optimizer that overrides the intrinsic functions of the built in RAM manager:
In this case, the Minimem RAM optimizer was used. It was initially built to optimize the performances of Firefox web browser, has a very simple to use interface and a low memory footprint while it runs in background. It can optimize an unlimited number of processes or running applications by decreasing their memory footprint.
As you may noticed, from the screenshots result that the the amount of free RAM is increased almost of ten times more in the presence of Minimem RAM optimizer as compared with the operating system RAM manager (for Firefox web browser the amount of used RAM decreased from 105 MB to 27 MB in 20 seconds).
The efficiency of this free RAM manager will also be reflected on older computers or other Windows operating system types.Another free memory optimizer is Acelogix Software RAM Optimizer. It will monitor the amount of free RAM and when it falls below a certain value the optimization process will take place.
Another condition to get the best results with RAM optimizers is the usage of a cleaning utility that will remove the unneeded files, registry entries, browser cache and more. One of the best free system cleaning utility is CCleaner.
The performances of your computer, reflected in the amount of free RAM could also depend on other factors like the operating system working parameters and memory footprint type of simultaneous running process and as a consequence sometimes the memory optimizers should be “helped” by modifying also the behaviour of certain applications or features of the operating system.
