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TuneUp Memory Optimizer
TuneUp Memory Optimizer monitors your system in the background and frees up
memory whenever needed to increase the performance of your computer.
TuneUp Memory Optimizer is worth using for versions of Windows up to Windows XP and
for systems with up to 512 MB of memory. If there is a shortage of physical memory,
TuneUp Memory Optimizer automatically ensures that the system frees up memory for
your applications and writes the displaced data to disk.
The SmartOptimize technology ensures that your work is not disturbed by the automatic
optimization in the background. SmartOptimize makes sure that your memory usage is only
optimized when your processor usage is not too high.
Important for Windows Vista users: Please note that TuneUp Memory Optimizer
Using TuneUp Memory Optimizer
The main window of
is
not available for Windows Vista users. Microsoft has substantially improved the internal
memory management in Windows Vista - the operating system automatically adapts to the
behavior of installed applications and intelligently pre-loads files that are likely to be needed
soon while the system is not working (“prefetching”). Clearing your system memory can
interfere with this mechanism, so we do not recommend that these types of optimization
tools be used in Windows Vista.
TuneUp Memory Optimizer consists of three tabs.
The first tab Overview contains an animated graph that shows the amount of free physical
memory over time. This graph allows you to monitor how Windows uses your system
resources. Free physical memory and Free space in paging file
show exactly how
much memory your system is using.
This module shows
how much physical
memory is being
used.