Comments on: Instant Memory Cleaner For Vista/XP http://www.windowsreference.com/free-utilities/instant-memory-cleaner-for-vistaxp/ Windows 7 2008 2003 Vista XP 2000 Ms Office Tutorials Fixes Tips Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Larry Miller http://www.windowsreference.com/free-utilities/instant-memory-cleaner-for-vistaxp/comment-page-1/#comment-2308 Larry Miller Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:47:11 +0000 http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/instant-memory-cleaner-for-vistaxp/#comment-2308 BAD IDEA Clearmem is a command line tool from Microsoft. It is a tool for programmers who understand Windows memory management, which apparently the author does not. It essentially forces memory that is doing something useful out of work and into unemployment. This is not good. When the contents of this memory is later needed Windows must waste valuable time in reloading it from disk. It should have been left there. Free memory is the ultimate in wasted memory. Memory management in XP and Vista is top notch and needs no help from uninformed meddling. Larry Miller Microsoft MCSA BAD IDEA

Clearmem is a command line tool from Microsoft. It is a tool for programmers who understand Windows memory management, which apparently the author does not. It essentially forces memory that is doing something useful out of work and into unemployment. This is not good. When the contents of this memory is later needed Windows must waste valuable time in reloading it from disk. It should have been left there. Free memory is the ultimate in wasted memory.

Memory management in XP and Vista is top notch and needs no help from uninformed meddling.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

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