"tip of the year"

[anandk]

not mine. not tried it, just reproducing it.

1. Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents.

2. Now start the Task Manager Processor tab and sort the list in descending order on Memory Usage.
You will notice that Winword.exe will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory.

3. Now switch to Word and simply minimize it. (Do not use the Minimize All option of the task bar).

4. Now go back to the Task Manager and see where Winword.exe is listed. Most probably you will not
find it at the top. You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find Word.
Now check out the amount of RAM it is using. Surprised? The memory utilization has reduced by a huge amount.

5. So where is the tip of the year? Simple-minimize each application that u are currently not working on by
clicking on the Minimize button & u can increase the amount of available RAM by a substantial margin.
Depending upon the number and type of applications you use together, the difference can be as much as
50 percent of extra RAM and all this is free of cost!There is nothing unusual happening.
In any multitasking system, minimizing an application means that it won't be utilized by the user right now.
Therefore, the OS automatically makes the application use virtual memory & keeps bare minimum amounts of the code in physical RAM.

http://techshout.blogspot.com/2006/1...p-of-year.html
btw, while on the page, dont look here and there

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Originally Posted by anandk

http://techshout.blogspot.com/2006/1...p-of-year.html
btw, while on the page, dont look here and there

thanks for the tip,i looked here nd there and found just a pic on the left which was as lame as it goes.please dont warn for such lame pics.

[s18000rpm]

nice tip.

[Ron]

Hey
Nice tip man
ron

[it_waaznt_me]

Bah .. Thats BS ... The author doesnt seem to make the difference between the speed of application running in virtual memory vs application working in RAM.
Page file is many times slower than primary memory ..
So if you really want to use less RAM, have less running programs .. easy as that ..

[ketanbodas]

Thanks Will chek it out. Lets see if it really qualifies for the tip of the year

[nikhilrao]

Ok Thanks for the link.
And we wont look here n there to see da Hotest Masala Material on the rite side

[Tech Geek]

awesome tip
will try it out

[blueshift]

thanks for posting this but there was nothing here and there.

[hemant_mathur]

Thanx for the info

[casanova]

Not worth tip of the year. But a good one.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

somebody saw something 'here and there'?

[NIGHTMARE]

FIND MORE AND USEFUL NEXT TIME

[Pathik]

if ne1 figures out how the c proggy on d blog works out.. Then enlighten me as well..

[Ramakrishnan]

it is a good tip

[int86]

just minimized media player.
very true it was tip of year.

[Chrono Cr@cker]

Not really the tip of the year or anything, it is a known fact. Instead of minizing it, save the file and move on, you'll use lesser memory that way.

[nishant_nms]

Thanx man