Prompted me to take a look at my own hard-disk. Doing a "Disk Cleanup" now,
which among other things includes deleting 326 Gb of "Windows Update Error Log"
files.
Next up - DEFRAG that sucker (although I thought NTFS didn't require periodic
defragging). Fortunately, I have a brunch meeting this morning and can start the
defrag and not be seriously discommoded while it does its thing.
Windows is notorious for what I've heard referred to as "Memory Leaks" -
allocates memory to programs when they're running, but forgets to take it all
back when you close the program. Pair that with something like Adobe being a
memory HOG and not playing nice with others, and I guess you can take a real
performance hit.
It also buggers things if you have to shutdown abnormally, although I don't get
that as much with Windoze 7. Most of the time with Windoze 7 when a program
freezes & won't respond I can successfully call up Task Manager and end it from
there. Rarely do I have to just pull the plug anymore.
On 7/31/2019 02:12:37, mike wilson wrote:
On 31 July 2019 at 02:29 John <[email protected]> wrote:
Windoze has some kind of disk cleanup built in. It might do what you want
without having to install an external program. AFAIK, freeing up RAM is a
function of how many programs are in your startup folder or are set to
auto-start when you log in.
Not only. Programmes that sequester RAM for exclusive use may not release it
back to the OS on closure. Adobe, whose faults are legion, is/was a serial
offender in this regard.
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/5-free-ways-clean-up-windows-3499097/
On 7/30/2019 10:53:32, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
I am looking for an effective and affordable program or service for
periodically cleaning up the data on my PC and freeing up RAM. Does anyone
have a product they use and like?
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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