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by: Littlethunder July 23, 2012 3:44 PM PDT

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All About Ram?

by Littlethunder - 7/23/12 3:44 PM

In the old days everything was all about RAM and how you could increase your RAM. One such topic was all about items in the taskbar: ie the less you have in the task bar the better your RAM would be. Well thats how I remember it and of course Ram Idle was all the craze for downloads it seemed.

So wht about this day and age of high spped PC's and laptops with all kinds of RAM and storage space:

Is it still the rule of thumb perse to keep less on the taskbar & desktop to improve RAM? Or is it a free for all: whatever your sysem can handle go for i?

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by bob b - 7/23/12 4:46 PM

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In the old days machines did not have gobs of ram and the OS did not handle ram well.
The result was the swap file would go active........very bad.
The fix was to add more ram or limit the number of running task or use some 'ram cleaning tool'.....iffy.
The objective was to not use the swap file.

Today's machines have gobs of ram and an OS that handles ram much better.
You can have a ton of task open and show close to zero free ram and the swap file remains idle.


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That's not about RAM

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 7/23/12 4:00 PM

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Less on the taskbar can help a little as there are less processes to ask "do you need something?"

And with more CPU cores, sometimes it's not a big deal at all.

-> There are folk still selling snake oil (registry cleaners) and more.
Bob


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RAM, task bars & speed

by flrhcarr - 7/28/12 4:03 PM

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How fast is the fast, that you want?

It's not overly important to take everything off the task bar as it once was, but it depends on what you're trying to do? For the most speed, certainly don't have it all pinned & running. For everyday use, you'll not need to stop all of the processes you once had to.

For big image files & motion editing, you'll always do better trimming down what is running & leaving all of the RAM for that process.


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