Free Ram XP

A while back, I posted a prob where my 'puter would just decide to restart itself. This happend maybe a half-dozen times, both on and offline. At first, there seemed to be no rhyme nor reason for this prob.

One day, however, I couldn't load my ID, although my wife's would load ok. When I clicked on my name, it would call up my desktop, than the 'puter would restart. I observed this sequence a few times, maybe 4 or 5, and it seemed to happen when "FreeRAMXP" would try to load itself in the system tray.

I removed this prog from my systray with XPepius, but have not yet uninstalled it. Anyone else had probs with this prog? Recommendations for any RAM optimizer progs are appreciated-or do they even have a noticable effect on performance? This machine has been a lot better than ever since you guys helped me straighten it out but let's face it-15 years as an aviation maintenance technician means that I just like to keep tweaking and tweaking..........

 

Halo-
I suspected as much, but wanted to hear it from someone who actually knows how these things work!!

Been using Windows since version 3, so it's hard to get used to a version that actually manages memory in an efficient manner!! I've never gotten the BIOS thing figured out (I have a Prescott processor) even though I did the "hotfix" from Microsoft. Other than the phantom restarts, this machine kicks a** like it never has before, so overall I'm quite pleased.

Waiting to hear from the Mobo manf. on the BIOS thing; I'll post the results later......

Jtone

 

Well this is odd...I actually disagree with you to a point Halo. Here's why...

If the user is talking about FreeRAM XP Pro 1.40 I have used this program with no problems almost since XP was first released. B/C of all the graphics stuff I do, I run out of RAM fast. XP IMO holds on to a lot more than is necessary when using these programs. If I 'don't' use something to free up my RAM I find that after a while my graphics programs will just close/crash without warning UNLESS I take the time manually close my program, reboot, then start my program again. Using FreeRAM I've never had any of my graphics program crash and I can fiddle with stuff all day without the need to reboot. *shrug* Does the trick for me.

I have tried other proggies to manage my RAM but I always go back to FreeRAM XP Pro for it's stability, efficiency and small footprint.

@ jtone...I wonder if something in your configuration settings has been inadvertently checked?...there is quite a bit there and 'some' of the settings if enabled/disabled can and will mess things up. Assuming you have already checked them I would double check them all...we won't talk about how much time "I" spent this morning trying to turn off an image toolbar and how many times I OVERLOOKED the setting! LOL