RAM Boosting programs --- are they worth it?

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db.·.. > said:
those programs are
designed for machines
with low resources.
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No, those programs are designed for gullible, technically ignorant
people. Like registry cleaners, they're pure snake oil.


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not really.

they serve and fulfill
two specific purposes.

one, they are utilities and
tools towards a more efficient
use of resources, and

two, they are utilities that
incite the ineffective use of
resources of whining geeks.
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you're whining.

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db.·.. > said:
No, those programs are designed for gullible, technically ignorant
people. Like registry cleaners, they're pure snake oil.
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So sayeth the tiniest, most closed minded candidate on the 'net. There
IS one place this "snake oil" analogy (stolen from a M. R. article)
works and that's to describe Brucey's plethora of misinformation and
misleading posts. There is only one way to think; his way. Whether he
knows what he's talking about or not.
 
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Another puppet/parrot heard from. Too much trouble to think for itself.
 
Have you tried removing the pagefile from the extra drives and shrinking the
one on system to see if any noticeable performance hit occurs?
Is your machine set to use more page then RAM?
How many Background services are running and do you need them all on?
What applications are you using?
I suggest you go and get memtest to check if all your RAM works.
 
Windows will page no matter how much RAM you have. Are you talking
about a specific program?
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First, you replied to my message, not the original poster's. No, *I*
am not talking about any specific program. Ask the original poster
what he was talking about, not me.

Second, it's not really correct that "Windows will page no matter how
much RAM you have." You are mixing up page file use with page
file allocation. They are not the same thing. Far and away the best
piece on the page file written is this article by the late MVP Alex
Nichol: "Virtual Memory in Windows XP" at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php I recommend you read this to
better understand how all this works.

To find out how much page you actually use (as opposed to allocate),
go to http://billsway.com/notes_public/winxp_tweaks/ and download
WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip to monitor your pagefile usage.
 
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