Windows 98 – Den Arbeitsspeicher komplett freimachen

After starting a program or game, you will notice that the Working memory after exiting the program 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 our Windows 98 still has some problems here. 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:

Arbeitsspeicher wiederherstellen – Ressourcen schonen

1. Right-click on a free area of the desktop and select New > Text file from the context menu that appears. This is called Free up memory (but the name does not matter).

2. Double-click on the text file and enter only the following line: FreeMem = Space(32000000)

3. Klicken sie auf Datei > Speichern unter… und wählen sie unter Dateityp Alle Dateien. Schreiben sie nun hinter dem Dateinamen die Endung .vbs. In meinem Beispiel lautet die Datei nun: Speicher freiräumen.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!

Attention: To be able to execute VBS scripts under Windows 98, Internet Explorer 6.0 is required. here get.

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.

By Sandro Villinger

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (back then this is what Sandro looked like). He then went on to write elsewhere, such as for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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