Will this notepad trick hurt my computer? 10pts!?

Question

If I open notepad and I type in "mystring=(80000000)" without the quotes and save it as "ram.vbe", will this really speed up my computer?

Also if I open notepad again and type in "FreeMem=Space(64000000)" and save it as "RAMcleaner.vbs", will this help or hurt my computer?

Answer 1

All that does, is make sure Windows page out your ram faster to disk.

In that 1st example, it is set to 80mb.

Your foreground application will perform marginally better for a while.

But any background application/service will suffer.

If you try to use anything else, you will notice a serious decline in performance.

In my opinion, it is not worth it.

Getting more physical ram is a better option.

As for helping/hurting, that is something you will have to decide.

Each computer is different.

It might help more, or not.

It all depends on your setup.

Answer 2

It's safe.

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.

Answer 3

software-

http://eltalerdigital.com/

Answer 4

no it wont speed up your system