Memory Monitor in System Tray ?

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I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?

I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?

Thanks for any info.

P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
 
News said:
I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?

I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?

Thanks for any info.

P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
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I'm using TclockEx on win98SE , it's a replacement for your windows clock,
it also can show mem available, sytem resources available, etc.

http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm

HTH
 
did said:
I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?

I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?

Thanks for any info.

P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
Click to expand...

http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/index.html
 
News said:
I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?

I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?

Thanks for any info.

P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
Click to expand...

I use CarbonMon 1.1 from http://carbon.shellscape.org/

(It's a 1 file wonder)

greetings
jes
 
(e-mail address removed) (News Reader) wrote in
I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?

I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?

Thanks for any info.

P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
Click to expand...

I use this:

http://www.tiler.com/freemeter/

Has memory, cpu and assorted other things.
 
(e-mail address removed) (News Reader) wrote:
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I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?
Click to expand...
I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?
Click to expand...
Thanks for any info.
Click to expand...
P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
Click to expand...

I used RamIdle LE on my 98SE system and had great results. I did not
notice the improvement as much when I installed ME. I boot up with XP
mostly now and there really isn't a need for a memory manager.

Scroll down to RamIdle here:

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html

There is v4.5, which is freeware.

There is also v4.6 and v4.8.2, which are unlimited shareware versions.
These are more functional than the freeware version. The license is so
liberal that I included these versions. It pretty much states that you
can use the program as long as you want to in order to determine
whether you want to buy it. While these are OT sharewares, the license
completely leaves it to the user to decide and there are no
constraints at all.

Whichever version you try, tweaking the recommended settings can lead
to some pretty outstanding performance increases for 98SE.

The CPU usage monitor can provide you with the info you seek, but I
noticed decreased performance when this feature is checked on a 500mhz
P1 with 256 megs of ram. I elected to uncheck this feature for optimal
performance and had no problems running anything. The program
constantly defrags ram so that any app that requires contiguous memory
addresses can load straight into memory without swapping/defragging.

In earlier discussions people who ran dictatorial programs like Norton
Utilities still had resource problems. I ran only freewares like AVG
and Kerio 2.1.5, and I never had any resource problems. So, the luck
that you will have depends on the programs that you are running. If
you have resource hogs that leave you with little to work with RamIdle
can only do so much. On a resource rich machine it can work wonders.
 
Jes said:
Argh... just noticed: CarbonMon does not show info in numerical form.
Well... in the tooltip it does, but thats not what you where looking for.
Sorry

greetings
jes
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Hmpf. Ansered the wrong post.

Sorry again...

greetings
jes
 
I'm looking for a memory monitor that will tell me either the free
memory or the used memory, in numerical form, in the system tray.
Does anyone know of a freeware application that will do this in
Windows 98SE?

I believe RAMIdle Pro does this, but it is not free. Does their LE
version do it?

Thanks for any info.

P.S. I'd also like the same approach for CPU usage.
Click to expand...

Free RAM XP pro.

Works!
Right ckick tray icon and choose "try to free" and you can set the number or
% of RAM you like it to release.

Letting it run out of RAM makes it sometimes lock-up... but freeing ram is
easy.

Morgan O.
 
Morgan Ohlson said:
Free RAM XP pro.

Works!
Right ckick tray icon and choose "try to free" and you can set the number or
% of RAM you like it to release.

Letting it run out of RAM makes it sometimes lock-up... but freeing ram is
easy.

Morgan O.
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Read a post a few months ago about making your own vbs script for this. Just
open a new text document, type: FreeMem=Space(20000000) save it as
mem.vbs, just run it. Works great under win98SE.
The number specified here frees 20Mb of RAM.
 
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