We first heard about this tool in the back of Information Week where they review items
of interest. This seemed just what the doctor ordered since we upgraded to Windows 98
second edition and Microsoft Office 2000. Suffering from RAM cram has never been worse,
even with 128 MB of fast RAM. Between memory leaks (which have always abounded in MS
products) and general fragmentation cause by opening and closing applications repeatedly,
we needed help.
WinRamTurbo claims to be able to recover RAM from closed applications that do not
return RAM gracefully back to the system. It also claims to defragment RAM. We downloaded
the trial version after reading about it.
Good news: it does work. You can set up minimal thresholds for recovery or recover RAM
on demand. I found it interesting that I could Ctrl-Alt-Del to stop a program (MSIMN which
sprouts itself like mushrooms) and then recover the RAM from those lost sessions. Helped
to prevent unnecessary reboots and keep my system running.
Now I still run out of RAM occasionally for reasons I can't explain, but WinRamTurbo
recovers my RAM more times than not.
Bad News: It's only in version 1.0 so it has a way to go. The documentation is thin and
hard to decipher. Support was timely via email, but wasn't in-depth enough to answer the
heart of my questions.
If you are running Office 2000 or other such memory hogs, you might want to test this
out with you image. It is certainly cheap enough. You can visit their site here.
WinRamTurbo
