Reviews of BySoft FreeRAM

1. 
   photonboy

   Reviewing 4.0.4.517 (Jun 1, 2006)

   Do not use ANY software to manage your RAM.
   
   Modern Operating Systems such as Windows XP are very good at balancing the amount of RAM used to ensure increased response time. It has been proved that no RAM management software is capable of producing an increase in performance. The best case scenario is NO EFFECT. The worst case scenario, is you PAID for decreased performance and even errors.
   
   The new OS Vista being released in 2007 to replace Windows XP will better place key programs to ensure a faster user interface (such as the Start Menu). Microsoft has very carefully examined all areas that could be improved. 2 GB's of RAM will now produce the optimum performance.
   
   Current RAM management programs still have to work with the limitations of XP. Even though Vista will better use the available RAM this does not mean that a RAM program can be written for XP. XP itself would need to be re-written but that's not going to happen.
   
   If you still don't believe me, Google around and you'll find that I'm correct. While you'll find some articles claiming that such RAM management software works, you will find unbiased articles that can tell you why RAM MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE IS A VERY BAD IDEA!!
2. 
   coolticker

   Reviewing 4.0.4.517 (Jun 1, 2006)

   Hi,
   
   Nice interface and icons, nice "available memory" display in tray icon but...This kind of software is useless, Windows already freeup RAM when needed (in fact it move what it can to virtual memory swap file so you get more real RAM available).
   
   But ... doing this mean that when you go back to a "swapped" application, it will reclaim part of data that has been swapped to disk and this is really slow. Just see what happend with heavy loaded machine when you switch between apps...the application windowses take time to rebuild.
   
   FOrcing to freeup more RAM than needed mean "slow swap" more than strictly necessary.
   
   Also EXE file has been packed with UPX and all thoses EXE packers are horrible ! Because of 2 things, first, it will use more RAM (it will use original needed memory+compressed DATA) so if you have a 2MB packed EXE or DLL, then when loaded it will use +2MB memory (some are non-swappable to virtual memory swap file). In case of FreeRAM it will only use +300KB (size of its EXE file). Second thing, anti-virus take more time to scan such compressed EXE because it need first to unpack it to temporary file, analyse, and then star it, so starting a packed EXE take more time.
   
   FreeRAM memory usage it 7MB (more or less swapped depending Windows OS) so not only this kind of tool is useless but also it consume RAM.
3. 
   slimy

   Reviewing 4.0.4.517 (May 31, 2006)

   Software that frees ram is bulls***, especially for Windows XP which takes care of ram just fine.
4. 
   terracesider

   Reviewing 4.0.4.335 (Dec 12, 2005)

   I suppose for the most part it's harmless if used as a monitor butI can't see any information in this that Windows Task Manager doesn't give. If you're going to use it to free up RAM, Flemens' post is well worth bearing in mind. You have been warned.
   
   A better way to free up memory is to close applications not in use and don't have more processes than necessary running on the task bar. If you've problems after that then this program won't solve them. The only real solution is adding more RAM so you've at least 512MB. Else, leave well alone.
5. 
   oasiscraze

   Reviewing 4.0.4.257 (Sep 29, 2005)

   On the contrary, this program works very well for when you are running out of RAM and the computer says that tasks can't be completed becasue of lack of memory.... Flipside: I can't tell see any major improvments from version 3.0

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