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Mastertech reviewed v5.0 Beta on Dec 1, 2006

These programs are all snake oil and actually REDUCE performance. Avoid at all costs! Anyone who claims these improve performance in anyway have no concept how Windows Memory Management works.

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gigsvoo reviewed v5.0 Beta on Oct 6, 2004

The file is corrupted, many many times downloaded.

ice_box reviewed v5.0 Beta on Feb 26, 2003

been using in .Net 2003 adv server & works like a charme
"a keeper" indeed

controler reviewed v4.8 Beta 3 on Dec 10, 2001

This progy is going to be a KEEPER
Nice easy to use GUI and funtions seem to be working well
Better than paid for programs on market today.

Richard30ky reviewed v4.8 Beta 3 on Dec 9, 2001

very good and works as good as any other memory product that would pay for very good for setting your catch also without over tweaking simple to use doesnt take a rocket scientist to use also (free) *****+

animespy reviewed v4.5 RC 4 on Aug 17, 2001

Uh, it does more than display RAM, MrCodeDude. Have you looked at the configuration? It deserves praise. I like how it automatically adjusts cache settings, optimizations, and such.

MrCodeDude reviewed v4.5 RC 1 on Jul 20, 2001

I don't think this program did anything for my machine, it just displayed how much RAM I did have available. And once it crashed, it led me onto a horror story. I unistalled my recently downloaded Ad Killers and most previous installed programs. Other that that, installation and uninstallation is fine. I don't see any OnFlow files in my machine, so this little program doesn't seem to do anything except display how much RAM you have avaiable.

AlanS2001 reviewed v4.5 Beta 1 on Jul 3, 2001

The configuration options are a s***load better set out than version 4

downer reviewed v4.0 RC3 on Jun 9, 2001

i use win98 with 75mb ram .. it works excellent.. lots more speed and caching is excellent.. i referred my friend to the software and he has winME with 288mb ram and loves it.. with his 3d rendering apps it works wonders!

joko reviewed v3.2.1 on Apr 26, 2001

IT'S THE POWERFULL AND WONDERFULL UTILITY SOFTWARE.
YOU CAN SAVE YOUR MEMORY FOR OTHER APPLICATION.
BUT NO GOOD FOR GAMES APPLICATION. YOU MUST DISABLE THIS PROGRAM WHEN YOU LAUNCH 3D GAMES.

b-wolf reviewed v3.2 RC2 on Mar 18, 2001

On-flow sneaks in with seveal programs including the latest version of NetCaptor. It's fairly harmless though. To remove it, do a find files for "onflow". The uninstall will show as well as the main folder and two DLL files in the Exlporer plug-ins directory. Run the uninstall, then delete the onflow directory. Restart your system and delete the .dll files. That's it. A pain, but doable

noahphex reviewed v3.2 RC2 on Mar 18, 2001

Beware, the latest beta of ram idle's installer has a option to install the "onflow" player. I maid the mistake of installing it. THe onflow player is a set of IE plugins that display advertising. After I installed Ram Idle, Onflow was trying to access the internet, and was setting off alarms on my firewall. When you try to uninstall Onflow, it says it needs IE and "Windows Explorer" to be shut down, and if you use explorer.exe for your shell, you pretty much screwed like I am. Beware before you install.

Hades! reviewed v3.2 RC1 on Mar 10, 2001

Honestly, on my Windows ME box with 128MB RAM, I can't tell much difference in my system's speed, although it does leave me with generally a lot more free resources. In games though, I have noticed some hookups and freezes, although there is an option to have the program automatically disable itself when the CPU is under a high load.

Viper10585 reviewed v3.2 Beta 3 on Feb 4, 2001

Very good program. 192MB On WinME and it does make a difference.

Null2K reviewed v3.2 Beta 2 on Jan 31, 2001

Wel it works on win98se (and i hope it wil stay that way !)

Practice reviewed v3.2 Beta 2 on Jan 21, 2001

I gave RAM Idle a try, but it seemed to do absolutely nothing for my Windows Me box. The only thing it may have done was make my system a little unstable.

I do not recommend using this program with WinME.

jofin reviewed v3.2 Beta 1 on Dec 26, 2000

I normally use Freemem pro but thought I would give this one a whirl, since it is free. The interface is very good and cache management integration is a great idea. HOWEVER, I use Windows ME and the program worked well initially. However, when I run Napster with it the computer hangs. The only option is to close it using Alt Shift Delete. Having said that, the program worked really well at other times!

toxicthunder reviewed v3.2 Beta 1 on Dec 23, 2000

this is a great program, i've installed it on 3 win98 systems (laptops, celeron400, 96mb ram) and you could notice the difference. i have yet to try this on my win2k box... i have had to disable this progam to play old win9x games (mainly kings quest vii, my girlfriend was playing that, and it would crash when ramidle was running). otherwise great program!

jpasula reviewed v3.0 Beta 3 on Oct 30, 2000

Running resource meter, you have 3 types of resources:
System, User and GDI. Which of these 3 does RamIdle free (if any?). I find myself running out of resources (specifically, windows says there's not enough free RAM) even though RamIdle reports over 100mb free and I have 384 in total.

teranova52 reviewed v3.0 Beta 3 on Oct 30, 2000

Well i do not have any reall problem with it in my Win2k system.
But one thing that i notice is that my system slow down with it , at any open-close software , i can listen hard disk activity ,more than the usual .
And the programs take some more time to load .
I have 256 MBs SDRAM , so i do not know were is the problem .
With out it ,i am fine ..

-=XTC=- reviewed v3.0 (beta -2) on Oct 23, 2000

Soory forgot setting ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

jpasula reviewed v3.0 Beta on Oct 14, 2000

This is a very good program. It works with Windows Me. Only problem I've actually come across (my own stupidity) was when I manually set virtual memory settings, and then was running Ram Idle. I would always get memory access violations. :) I recomend this to everyone.

John

TreMetal reviewed v2.6 Beta 4 on Sep 7, 2000

Seems to be a good program so far.

fiestared reviewed v2.6 Beta 2 on Aug 17, 2000

It's easy to install, it's easy to understand, it's easy to impliment, it's easy to ignore and let it do it's thing. M$ should study this program for it's "user friendlyness" instead of pictures of clouds.

It just plain works!