After you have started a program or a game, you will notice that the working memory no longer has the size it had directly after starting Windows. This is due to the inadequate memory management of this operating system.
Under Windows 2000 or XP this problem is avoided as far as possible, but even here the memory management does not work perfectly. There are therefore programs for Windows that can clear the memory of leftovers on request. I present here a tip with which you can restore the working memory by double-clicking without robbing processor or RAM resources with additional programs:
1. Right-click on a free area of the desktop and select from the context menu that appears New > Text file. They call them Clear the memory (but the name doesn't matter).
2. Double-click on the text file and enter only the following line: FreeMem = Space(32000000)
3. Click on File > Speichern unter… and select under file type All files. Now write the extension .vbs. In my example, the file now reads: Clear memory.vbs.
4. Jedesmal, wenn sie einen Doppelklick auf diese Datei vollführen, wird ihr Speicher von zusätlichem Ballast freigeräumt – und zwar um genau 32MB (Deshalb ist in der Zeile oben die Zahl 32000000). Wenn sie z.B. 64MB gewinnen wollen schreiben sie in die Klammer 64000000. Allerdings sollten sie hier NIE mehr als die Hälfte ihres Arbeitsspeichers angeben – sonst könnten sie im besten Fall eine Fehlermeldung erhalten oder im schlimmsten Fall könnte ihr System zusammenbrechen. Seien sie also vorsichtig!
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
