memory managers for winXP?

[DarkManX]

does anyone use any 3rd party applications for managing their RAM usage? anything good or useless out there? I used to go like 30 days without rebooting when i first installed windows, now my computer gets pretty slow by day 5 and dosent even have much stuff installed.

 

[Tarrant64]

That's just Windows. There are some "memory managers" out there, but they are all pretty much useless.

Going 30 days without a reboot is OK, if that's what you're into. But unless there's a reason to keep it running that long, a reboot every 5 days isn't anything to complain about. Those who keep up with Windows Updates find themselves reboot at least once a week.

What are your system specs?

 

[stash]

Those who keep up with Windows Updates find themselves reboot at least once a week.

We do? That's not how things are on my machines.

 

[KingTech]

I never care about it because late rebooting or booting after several weeks don't effect on performance.

 

[Nothinman]

does anyone use any 3rd party applications for managing their RAM usage?

Uh no, anything that tries to mess with memory mangement would have to run in kernel mode and I don't believe the NT VMM is able to be disabled so they'd just end up fighting with each other. Most of those tools are completely worthless and just do a really large memory allocation and release it to force things out to disk and make you feel like you just accomplished something.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: stash

Those who keep up with Windows Updates find themselves reboot at least once a week.

We do? That's not how things are on my machines.

QFT. I reboot XP once per month or so, if that.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
That's just Windows. There are some "memory managers" out there, but they are all pretty much useless.

Going 30 days without a reboot is OK, if that's what you're into. But unless there's a reason to keep it running that long, a reboot every 5 days isn't anything to complain about. Those who keep up with Windows Updates find themselves reboot at least once a week.

What are your system specs?

Once a week? Microsoft releases new patches the 2nd tuesday of the month. If you are going strictly on WU you reboot once a month.