do things like FreeRam XP Pro work?

[RollWave]

They supposedly keep your ram running more efficiently?

 

[Schadenfroh]

windows xp pro does a good enough job of ram management

 

[RollWave]

I have xp home...i downloaded this prog to kinda monitor ram but i wonder if its just eating more up heh...

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22441,00.asp

 

[Nothinman]

They don't work, there's no way for them to do anything because the only memory they have access to is their own. In order to actually do something with the system memory they'd need to run in kernel mode as a driver.

 

[stnicralisk]

It is bogus.

Memory management by XP is fine.

How do they claim to run your ram more efficient anyways? The only thing they really could do is like give you a smaller or bigger pagefile usage.. im confused as to how it would work even if it did work..

Benchmark it