Friday, October 26, 2007

Clear Memory

When you are using windows you need to restart the computer now and then.People do this when the computer start to get slow.Now you can clear you PC memory without restarting the PC. Just create a short cut.....

Clear Memory

  • Create a new short cut and for location type :
%SystemRoot%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,processIdleTasks
  • Name your short cut
  • Click Finish
Thats it, now you will have a icon on your desktop which will help you to clear memory without restarting.




4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I get an error message:

"Error in advapi32.dll
Missing entry: processIdleTasks

Elk said...

hmmmm not sure dude cant give you a technical answer on dis but try dis...Instead of %SystemRoot% try %windir%......

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%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

lmiller7 said...

WRONG
It is hard to imagine how someone could get this more wrong. The actual function of the given comand is nothing like that described.

By default Windows schedules a number of system maintenance tasks to occur every 3 days. They run during idle time so they can not impact on system performance. The command forces these tasks to run immediately without the usual wait. This command may require up to 15 minutes to run and there will be no notification when complete. There may be considerable CPU and disk activity during this time and application performance may be impaired. You do not want to do this prior to an intensive program.
All of this is documented by Microsoft.

Most people will have no use for this command. However, since laptop computers will not run idle tasks on battery power they may never execute these tasks. This command will allow the user to manually initiate them.

NOTE WELL: This command does not terminate any tasks and it does not free memory.

References:
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

CallUpChuck said...

This is the command recommended on several notable boards for fixing an issue with defrag -b on a Win7 x64 system. I get this same error when trying to apply that patch. Any ideas?