stuy, many times, we hear that a program is doing good, so we try it, and we believe what we've been told.
this is the case with memory managers.
you see, xp releases all the memory that is not in use...it allready does this...a memory program can only further release memory that is in use.
so, any further memory released will slow down a process that is in use...there are no two ways about this stuy.
so, ya, you can notice a program loading faster if you releasse ram, but at what price?
first, you have to release the ram, and that very process will slow you down, and then it will remain slow, untill the os catches up.
next, whatever ram is released will have to be reclaimed by the process that it was taken from, and you won't even realize it was the memory program that caused the slowdown...it'll just seem slower, or maybe not, you might not even realize the slowdown.
you might see your icons become irradic for a couple, or the file you're working on take an extra sec to go to something else.
now, if you have a pagefile that is too small, then, since theses memory management programs create their own pagefile, (it's called a backup file, but it's a pagefile), possibly you are running faster, because with the program, your too low pagefile setting is made due by the memory program.
see?