thefixer opened this issue on Jul 15, 2007 · 46 posts
keenart posted Wed, 25 July 2007 at 6:30 PM
Tomsde
The 3 gig switch is a bit touchy, better to upgrade ram if you can. I listed the URL's in a previous post, but am old enough I forgot which one. You can go to Microsoft and get the info on the 3 gig swtich in the Knowledge Base, and how to set it up. You might want to do a little search on the Web and get some other reactions from other users on this switch.
Kepplock
For a simple interface with only a couple of settings, SuperRam and price are easy to work with. TweakRam is a better product and can give you more options and a quick recover Ram button. I would say that no memory manager has the capability to significantly increase perfromance in any of the current OS's. In the old days yes, but not today with all of the fast access hardware.
Typically my use of the memory Manager works this way. I have duo cores, and when Vue is going to crash, it only uses 40 to 50% of the CPU rather than the 100% it should use, and all of the memory, instead of 5 to 10%, until it crashes.
So, I set the mem manager to recover and free extra Ram when My CPU usage falls below 60%, and my Ram resources fall below 512 Megs. This resource monitoring is by the system, and not Vue, which never gives an accurate accessment. When I run Vue and the app begins to fail, it hits the settings cap and TweakRam stops all activity, recovers the Ram necessary for Vue to continue, and I do not suffer an OS crash, which would happen otherwise.
I keep TweakRam reduced to the Start Bar, and do not run the app unless I have Vue running. It is well worth the investment to me to be able to get my work done, instead of nursing system crashes, which by the way has not happened since I began using the mem managers. These apps are also nice if you are a gamer and have system crashes because of unrecovered memory use.
Check out the web sites for the apps and see which you like. There are others good managers, but these are simple and easier to work with, and do not have a lot of usless and expensive bells and whistles.
thefixer
Yes, send a PM, be happy to help.