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RAM cleaning in the conventional sense is ineffective and harmful, and requires a sustained process or service (not something CCleaner is designed for)

 

"cleaning" your RAM actually slows your computer down by forcing operations to be moved from RAM to your swapfile (pagefile.sys) which, while freeing up ram for future processes, slows down any current processes (which have to be moved back into ram to be used anyway)

 

CleanMem is effective because it uses API calls to force programs to release their allocated but unused memory (if I recall and understood correctly - been a while since I looked at it) which is different than conventional cleaning and may be a better solution for you.

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