hankjrfan00 Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 7-max is an alternative memory manager for windows. It is developed by the same people who made 7-zip. Their website is http://www.7-max.com/.I apologize if this has already been posted before. This can really speed up sone applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Hmm I guess the basic idea of this software is the same as some of the tweaks that can be done in the registry files...like always unload unused dlls, and upload Windows XP codebase into memory, reduce prob of disk caching if u have a gig of mem and above and so on. It just seems to me that using that memory manager, 7-max, there could be a higher chance of some programs crashing out. Thanks for the link though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogg Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 what exactly does this do anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 It's not really worth it... I've found that memory "managers" often conflict with Windows in terms of your memory. I can possibly see the benefit on Win98/ME, but not any NT based OS. Let Windows XP take care of itself. My laptop runs all kinds of memory intensive apps all the time (7-zip, VMware, etc) and when all of them are closed again, it's back to it's speedy ol' self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringfinger Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I agree Zxian, I used to run an app called RAMClear, which would allow you to do the 'ol clear RAM feature. However, I would notice that sometimes the RAM app itself was the one hogging the most memory and virtual memory out of any app I was running. They're really not worth it, as Zxian said, let XP manage itself, task manager is all you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogg Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 i dont think this is a memory cleaner.what is does is like, it takes like 128MB of your memory, but from the tests, it makes doing 7zip's and rar archives encode faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 gdogg it basically puts the 3gb switch on boot ini.can you give examples of what you found a few months ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breadandbubbles Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 haha yes of course ive defragged. thanks a lot ladies. you really helped me out!MAN! i posted that in the wrong thread. i dont know how to delete it. sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogg Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 dirtwarrior, basically, i found that, when you do /3GB and delete the file ntoskrnlpa.exe (dont if you have =>4GB ram)that windows used far less memory than without it, like 45MB in my tests. (with other apps installed of coarce)but it has no effect in my microwinX project, @ bootup atleast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 LOL I dont have that much ram. Sometimes I need it though. What does the boot.ini after modification(I want to make sure I got it right) Can I delete that file from source? It is also in driver.cab. Do I delete that 1 too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogg Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 um, just system32 from what i did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 godogg LOL I dont have that much ram. Sometimes I need it though. What does the boot.ini after modification(I want to make sure I got it right) Can I delete that file from source? It is also in driver.cab. Do I delete that 1 too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogg Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 (edited) so single processor machine, with under 4GB ram needs ntoskrnlpa.exe i thinkor you can add this line to the boot.ini /NOPAE see if you can still run java, in a website with IE, if so, then /NOPAE does the same thing as ntoskrnlpa.exe being deletedbasically, your boot.ini, you'd have like multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\X="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=AlwaysOff /fastdetect /3GB /NOPAEwhere X is windows Edited October 17, 2005 by gdogg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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