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I used to use basic configuration 2GB ram for my laptop with windows 7. I ran into trouble when I needed to use multiple windows open (started swapping to hdd whenever switch occured), and cleanmem helped me a lot by giving me few more precious memory available (although admittedly new operation required same swapping, switch between open windows became much smoother). now I finished long wished upgrade to 4gb ram. do you advise to remove cleanmem at this amount of memory?
1RAM "optimizers"/cleaners/whatever are junk and should be avoided no matter what. – and31415 – 2014-01-18T10:26:10.283
@and31415 okay....so you are going for the case that 4gb should be plenty to let only windows manage memory? it definitely was a bad idea for 2gb ram as web browsers/office/etc started using memory as if it's 8gb system and signaling EmptyWorkingSet using this utility definitely helped keeping this matter in check – user287147 – 2014-01-18T10:30:52.707
When you're running out of memory you either add more or you run less programs at once/switch to less memory-hungry alternatives. If you were having performance issues before, 2 extra GB will certainly help. Keep in mind one thing is the physical memory installed and another is the total memory available to the system. If you got an integrated graphic card, for example, part of the memory could be reserved for it. To sum it up: yes, you should remove such program(s). – and31415 – 2014-01-18T10:44:00.687
@and31415 you should post it as answer. thx for comment. i guess i can now just remove cleanmem without discussing how much benefit/harm it does. – user287147 – 2014-01-19T10:57:33.350
Done. And yeah, those programs are "useless at best and harmful at worst." – and31415 – 2014-01-19T12:06:21.050