Hello;
You also need to look at cleaning the UNUSED RAM (like a memory manager would), without having to install any annoying memory manager applications.
Thank-You.
Memory managers just force running applications onto the pagefile (with the exception of a few that release commit memory) which actually degrades performance.
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That's a little out of ccleaner's purpose. The point of ccleaner is to remove junk that builds up. You can always just restart to clear memory (or as many of the members here do you can use the free, portable cleanmem program, we've a chat on it I think in chit-chat)
Hi. If you were to CLEAN your garage, that's called "Freeing up space".... RIGHT?
I feel as though the question posed in your last post was a rhetorical question so I'll ignore the rudeness that accompanies it and try my answer in a different manner.
CCleaner works to Free up space on your harddrive, and to remove most recent accessed file links which tend to become many. All of it's functions point toward that. Memory is non-resident it goes away at reboot or, when a program is written correctly, exit of software. Memory manager programs (as winapp2 stated) push everything to the page files, this is useful (especially with programs such as MS outlook or Internet Explorer) however doesn't follow the cleaning which is done by CCleaner.
While the developers will read this thread and thus will take your suggestion in consideration, I do not foresee it being added to CCleaner (Maybe speccy as it evolves but even then I highly doubt it.)
Forgive me if I am wrong here, but typically when Windows runs out of RAM, it pages to harddisk instead.
The problem is, that mechanical harddisk have moving parts. Specifically read/write heads that need to jump all over the place to find a location to write to or read from.
Harddisks usually range in the thousandths of a second (compared to more than 1,000 times faster in the memory that is millionths of a second or even less!) for accessing data.
If you page working files to the drive, it slows things down & increases wear on the drive as well as stressing the CPU/Motherboard & the other components that heat up trying to work on data that must be buffered to disk. The simplest & easiest way would NOT be to put something like this in CCleaner, but just upgrade your RAM so you get a permanent speed increase. Crucial memory website has a memory scanner that makes it so easy, that they tell you the price, memory type, supported ram, even checkmark box the mem you want & order right from that page!
Save yourself some time & extend the life of your computer. Try a RAM upgrade instead, & you will forever wonder how you got along without it!
CCleaner is primarily to clean common junk areas from the PC. Paging ram to harddisk will not yield a permanent result. In fact, you will be needing to page more & more things to the drive as time goes on if you leave it running with a low amount of ram due to the fact you will be opening & closing a lot of programs (causing further slowdowns & problems).
Your idea sounds good, but the only workable solution I see at the moment is to get yourself extra RAM. I just don't see how adding this to CCleaner will really help that much due to the explanation given above.
Hope this helps you, & welcome to the forums!
Try a RAM upgrade instead
That's good advice! Those memory "defragmenters" I see as toys really because in no time the process would repeat itself, whereas buying more RAM solves the issue completely - unless of course someone is using some rather buggy software that causes memory leaks.
I would really appreciate it if in the near future, you could add securely cleaning and deleting videos. If you are like my daughter and love to watch videos, they seem to have a bad habit of accumulating in the computer and start to slow it down. Right now what I have to do is use Recuva to locate all the videos, then select to securely overwrite all the videos.
please add to clean Second Life viewers cache and Bywifi video acelerator cache on Cleaner
Hi yugiiiii, could you provide the locations of the files you'd like cleaned? Thanks!