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Posted: May 26, 2000 Written By: Keith "Farrel" McClellan 'Defragmenting' Your RAM Continued... You can use the same Visual Basic trick to perform this operation in Win2k as you could in Win9x. Open up a text file and insert ONE of the following lines: Mystring = Space(16000000) -or- Mystring = Space(80000000) You only need one of the lines. Save the file as memory.vbs. You can run the program at any time by double-clicking it assuming you have the Visual Basic 4 (or higher) runtime files installed (they are installed by default by Windows 2000, so no worries). The bottom line is for you guys with at least 128 MB of RAM. Everyone should try it first though because it works better most of the time. However, if it causes errors for you, switch to the top line, which should work on any computer with at least 32 MB of RAM. It is also recommended that you close all other programs before you run this. If you would prefer to use a precompiled program, however, a reader of ours sent in two compiled versions of the Visual Basic program, one for people with people with less than 128 MB of RAM and one for people with at least 128 MB of RAM. You can get a brief description on how to use the program from this page, or you can download the two versions of the program directly [Ramfree32 / Ramfree128]. Conclusion Tweaking your hard drive and memory settings from within Win2k is quite a bit more complicated than it is from within Win9x, but inevitably it is also more rewarding as well. Hopefully, this Win2k guide has helped you squeeze every last bit of performance out of your computer. It is important to remember, however, that ‘old’ Windows NT 4.0 tweaks, with a little modification, should be able to be used on your Win2k box as well (I think I’ve covered most of the hard drive and memory related ones in this guide, but I’m not absolutely positive of that) - so keep an eye out for them. If you have any comments or questions about this guide, feel free to email me. |
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