Is There a Program, that Cleans-Up Memory That Does not Clear-out of EM ?

Question

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EM = Extended Memory.

My "System Idle Process" is always running between 95%-99%, regardless of if I have One program running, or several.

...and NO - I do NOT have a Virus.

Thank you for your Help.

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Answer 1

Memory is managed by the applications that use the memory, not an outside process.  You can't use a program to help clear it up as that program won't have any way of knowing which memory to keep/release.  The program using it must allocate/de-allocate the memory.

As for the System Idle Process, having it take up to 99% of the CPU means that your computer is doing almost nothing.  Think about the CPU as 100%.  If a game takes 20% of the CPU, the System Idle process will then read 80%.  The System Idle process really represents the unused percentage of your CPU.

Answer 2

System Idle is processing idle tasks in the background, using unused portion of the CPU since you're not doing anything with it. As you use more of the CPU, System Idle uses less. If you want to process ALL of the system idle tasks RIGHT NOW, it might take a few minutes but here's how to do it:

http://www.tweakxp.com/article37013.aspx

If you want to clear out your ram to make room for other things, you can write some things out to the page file (hard drive) like this:

If you have just run an intensive or specifically large application or game, you know about that groggy feeling your system can have. That's usually because of the leftovers taking up your valuable memory. You can free it, however, by clicking your heels together 3 times and saying: "Let my memory go." Er, I mean, using a program to free that trapped memory.

If you don't want to download a big fancy program, you can actually make one yourself very easily using Visual Basic runtimes (you don't even need VB to do this).

Here's what you do:

Open up Notepad (Start, Run, "notepad" (OK)). Depending on how much memory you have, put the appropriate values in...

Under 128mb Ram:

Mystring = (16000000)

128mb or More:

Mystring = (80000000)

Save it as "Memory.vbe" (including the quotes!). Close as many programs as you can, then run (double click) this handy little script to free your memory whenever your computer is feeling sluggish.