Download/HomepageNow you can get your memory back! How many times have you tried to free up
your system's RAM by closing an app or two -- only to have Windows cling to it like a
jealous girlfriend? Then your machine acts like you have 8M rather than 64M, maybe even
freezes -- since Windows didn't release some RAM in time. (Executables and DLLs often stay
in memory long after you closed them, until they're forced out later. This causes needless
use of your swap file, evoking disk-writes that bog down your machine.)
FreeMem Professional gives you both automatic and manual control over your physical
memory, and lets YOU (not Uncle Bill from Redmond) decide when to free up memory, and how
much RAM you want. When running in the background FreeMem Professional can automatically
monitor RAM and do its job behind the scenes.
If you use the Auto-Start option (upon booting Windows), FreeMem Professional can free up
a lot of your RAM that gets grabbed by startup Libraries and other background stuff that
you're not actually using. So you can literally get off to a good start and recover these
RAM resources immediately.
An excellent option added to this Pro version (there's a freeware version called Free
Memory Tool) is the system tray icon. This isn't your ordinary icon. It allows you to make
RAM status checks at a glance --plus on-the-fly manual RAM free-ups. And just place your
mouse over the tray icon to get a readout of available RAM.
The user interface is a five-tabbed window -- showing you Free Memory (to select how much
RAM you want free at bootup), Statistics (which charts ongoing RAM usage), Background
(where you select your critical and warning levels, plus background options), Startup, and
Icon options. Basically, depending on the amount of RAM installed, you choose your RAM
warning levels (there are three levels) and free-up quantities. These levels are then
reflected during operation by the tray icon's color (red, yellow, green). And a right
click on the icon gives you a menu showing your pre-selected amounts of RAM you can
recover from Windows. If the system's really busy, FreeMem Professional will retry, and
the number of times is your choice. Or anytime you're in doubt about settings, just use
the default values. In fact, the Help file contains lots of useful information and tips
that make this product both easy and interesting to use.
Another very useful feature of the Pro version, especially if you're a dyed-in-the-wool
gamer, is that from the tray icon, you can turn off background operation of the program
for best performance of your games. The Icon says OFF in this case, and when background
operation is enabled, the icon says RAM. Just toggle from the tray menu.
This lifesaving gem of a utility (guess who's had big-time RAM problems lately, despite
having 160M installed) is not only worth the $15, but also a 5-pound box of chocolates
sent directly to the author. It works! Maybe now, all the hair I've torn out of my head
will grow back. If you also want your memory -- and your hair -- to come back, this is a
must-have. And if you're THAT darned cheap, the freeware version (Free Memory Tool) is
available from the same download page, just remember that it's stripped down to very bare
basics. The Pro version is the way to go, and I've seen nothing else yet, especially at
this price, that works so effectively.
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