Comments on: Minimem Reduces the Memory Footprint of Unwieldy Applications http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/minimem_reduces_the_memory_footprint_of_unwieldy_applications-2/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:13:58 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Larry Miller http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/minimem_reduces_the_memory_footprint_of_unwieldy_applications-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 Larry Miller Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:04:02 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/08/08/minimem_reduces_the_memory_footprint_of_unwieldy_applications-2.html#comment-2876 <p>I would doubt the usefulness of this program. It will indeed decrease the memory footprint of running applications. But Windows already does this when RAM is required for other purposes. And the methods it uses are far more efficient then any 3rd party program could possibly attain. Windows has access to many data structures and functions that are simply not available outside the system. The means available to any application, no matter how well written, are crude in comparison.</p> <p>The memory management systems of XP and Vista are very good. There is no need or benefit in interfering with it's operation. The faults that may exist can not be fixed by any external program or service.</p> <p>Larry Miller<br /> Microsoft MCSA<br /> </p> I would doubt the usefulness of this program. It will indeed decrease the memory footprint of running applications. But Windows already does this when RAM is required for other purposes. And the methods it uses are far more efficient then any 3rd party program could possibly attain. Windows has access to many data structures and functions that are simply not available outside the system. The means available to any application, no matter how well written, are crude in comparison.

The memory management systems of XP and Vista are very good. There is no need or benefit in interfering with it’s operation. The faults that may exist can not be fixed by any external program or service.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

]]> By: Hello` http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/minimem_reduces_the_memory_footprint_of_unwieldy_applications-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 Hello` Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:30:24 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/08/08/minimem_reduces_the_memory_footprint_of_unwieldy_applications-2.html#comment-2875 <p>Looks like it decreases usage, but doesn't change the performance gauge of the windows taskmanager. Does this really work?</p> Looks like it decreases usage, but doesn’t change the performance gauge of the windows taskmanager. Does this really work?

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