Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Author: Jon B
Clear Your PC Memory The Easy Way!
If you’re a designer using a pc platform then you know that most of the image editing software you use eats up your computer’s resources. (Stop laughing MAC users) Especially if you have about 6 to 8 different applications running at the same time, depending on your computer’s specs, running all these applications at the same time will often cause the pc to lock up or shut down on its own.
So what do you do when you start to notice that your pc is bogging down? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simple button you can click on to clear out your computer’s memory? WinXP doesn’t have that button but that shouldn’t stop us from making our very own clear memory button. This is really simple so let’s get to it…
First thing you need to do is right-click anywhere on your desktop, click on New, click on Shortcut. This will bring up the Create Shortcut wizard, copy and paste the following into the location text box:
%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
Click Next - Now name it whatever you want, I suggest naming in “Clear Memory” and click Finish.
And that’s it, you should see an icon called Clear Memory on your desktop. Whenever your computer hangs when you’re using your apps simply click this button and your computer memory will be cleared w/o having to restart completely…pretty nifty huh?
[poll=3]
Tuesday, 29. January 2008
wow! thank you for the tip, it helped me restoring my pc without formating it
Wednesday, 19. March 2008
This was a rather helpful tip, can you post more on troubleshooting WinXP??? Thank you.
Sunday, 15. June 2008
Thank you: GREAT
Wednesday, 23. July 2008
Lol, I had never thought of that. Nice tutorial.
Monday, 25. August 2008
If your pc is frozen, how are you going to click on a desktop shortcut when you can’t even move the cursor or minimize to get to the desktop?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
If your pc is completely frozen and won’t do anything it’s probably not a system memory issue.
I would boot up in safe mode, and start cleaning out my pc by uninstalling programs I no longer use.
I would also run a spyware program.
Saturday, 4. October 2008
This is a great tip… I need to do a reinstall soon but this will buy me a couple more months of time
Thursday, 6. November 2008
mY COMPUTER HAS COMPLETELY CRASHED, SO I CANT EVEN GET TO THE DESKTOP, NOR SAFE MODE. I ONLY GET THE BLUE BACKGROUND WITH ALL THOSE SILLY WHITE WRITINGS. MYCOMPUTER WAS INFECTED WITH VIRUSES AND NOW I CANT EVEN REMOVE THEM SO HOW CAN I CLEAR MY COMPUTER AND REPLACE THE OS
Monday, 24. November 2008
Is there a similar thing for Windows 2000?