Something like Ram Booster for Win7?

[imported_Jid]

Yeah, so I'm a long time WinXP user and for XP I had (still have somewhere) this program called Ram Booster which basically dumps stuff from ram freeing it up for whatever you plan on doing with your machine, usually it was a good idea to run it before loading a videogame or app that needs a lot of resources.. it is a very simple program but it is older and I'm wondering if there is anything similar that'll work in Win7?

 

[JesseKnows]

The memory management in 7 is so much different to XP, nothing like Ram Booster would remotely work. If it worked in the first place.
The best thing to do with RAM is use it, it doesn't help anything to have it sit unused.
There are many threads about the 7 memory management, caching and the like.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Windows 7 still uses the same basic memory management that's been a part of Windows since NT. Ram Booster will probably work, but is completely useless and will probably just degrade performance.

 

[MrChad]

Windows 7 still uses the same basic memory management that's been a part of Windows since NT. Ram Booster will probably work, but is completely useless and will probably just degrade performance.

That's not true at all. Vista and 7 to far more to utilize unused memory via SuperFetch than XP or any other previous OS did.

 

[theevilsharpie]

XP utilizes memory in the same Vista and 7 do. SuperFetch simply allows Vista and 7 to learn what programs are used during a specific time of day, and then preemptively caches those programs into memory when appropriate. This avoids situations like late-night antivirus scans or backups that force data to be paged out from disrupting a user when they return to their computer.

 

[0roo0roo]

XP utilizes memory in the same Vista and 7 do. SuperFetch simply allows Vista and 7 to learn what programs are used during a specific time of day, and then preemptively caches those programs into memory when appropriate. This avoids situations like late-night antivirus scans or backups that force data to be paged out from disrupting a user when they return to their computer.

i think you are missing the point...

 

[theevilsharpie]

i think you are missing the point...

What point would that be? 😕

 

[Malak]

I thought programs like ram booster were dead, I haven't seen anyone use those since windows 98.

 

[Nothinman]

Yeah, so I'm a long time WinXP user and for XP I had (still have somewhere) this program called Ram Booster which basically dumps stuff from ram freeing it up for whatever you plan on doing with your machine, usually it was a good idea to run it before loading a videogame or app that needs a lot of resources.. it is a very simple program but it is older and I'm wondering if there is anything similar that'll work in Win7?

No and any affects that you saw in XP were most likely a placebo.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I know that Windows Advanced Care comes with one which is compatible with W7, but like others have said, "placebo" and "just get more memory."

 

[lord_emperor]

The version of RAMBooster I'm familiar with compressed the contents of RAM so that I could fit 12MB of data into the 8MB of RAM on my 486.

 

[KoolDrew]

RAM Booster is just as much of a waste of time as it was back with Windows XP.

 

[Cattykit]

XP utilizes memory in the same Vista and 7 do. SuperFetch simply allows Vista and 7 to learn what programs are used during a specific time of day, and then preemptively caches those programs into memory when appropriate. This avoids situations like late-night antivirus scans or backups that force data to be paged out from disrupting a user when they return to their computer.

You don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Nothinman]

You don't know what you're talking about.

Actually it's a fairly accurate statement. The core memory management in Vista and Win7 is very similar to that used by the previous versions of NT. Superfetch is just a userland process that monitors application usage and preloads chunks of data in anticipation of you wanting to use them. Similar to the way the prefetching in XP was used to speed up booting, only in a more generic, regular usage sense.

 

[theevilsharpie]

You don't know what you're talking about.

Please explain how my post is in any way incorrect.