I am a computer dodo. I have an old E-machines computer with XP-Home Ed.  How do I free up ram?
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You have two options. Install more memory are get rid of XP. Microsucks has no comprehension about what the meaning of the word efficient means.
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If you're not running at least 2 GB of RAM I would not suggest that you do this!  But here's how you accomplish what you've asked for.click start, then control panel.  Then performance and maintenance, then system.  On the tabs that open up click advanced.  In the box marked performance click settings.  In the new window that opens click advanced.  At the bottom of this page you will see memory settings, on the next page that opens click no cached memory.  Click OK and apply your done
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You could use some tweaks that will free up memory and increase speed. A step by step guide on how to do this can be found here,\n\nhttp://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm
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delete the stuff that you dont need\ndefragment (start > program files > accessories > system toold > system defragmenter)\nupgrade your memory to a faster one
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Before I answer this question you need to understand what memory is.  Memory is RAM (Random access Memory) measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes or on a really old computer Kilobytes. My laptop has 768MB (megabytes) of RAM.  Deleting files and un-installing programs wont do anything to your memory (unless they are programs running in the background such as virus killers which use a certain amount of memory to run) RAM is a temporary way your computer exchanges information it is fast and volitile (i.e when you switch your computer off or restart it erases itself).  When you load windows up it stores certian small programs in RAM in order to access them quickly. The memory I think you are talking about (and lots of people make the same mistake) is your Hard Drive which is the disk drive inside your computer which stores the operating system (i.e windows XP) and your programs.  The reason why people get this confused with there RAM is that Hard Drives and RAM capacity is both measured in GB and MB (Gigabytes and Megabytes)  If you want more RAM then you need to get someone who knows what they are doing to install a memory stick inside your computer.  If you want more hard drive space, yes you can delete files you dont want.  But only remove what you dont need, if you want to remove programs, dont just delete them from your desktop (that just removes the shortcut to the program) click on start/control panel, double click on Add/Remove programs, click on a program you wish to remove and click on remove.  You can free up more space on your hard drive by using disk cleanup.  Click on Start/All programs/Accessorys/Sytem Tools/Disk cleanup.  Then tick all the files that have at least 1KB next to them and click on ok then yes.  If you still don't have a lot of hard drive space then you could get someone in the know to either fit another hard drive (so you would have 2) or copy all the stuff accross from your old hard drive to the new unit and sell your old HD on Ebay (make sure you get your expert to low level format it first or the buyer could access your personal files)  I recomend a HD size of 80 GB if you are just an average user and 160-300GB if you deal with a lot of chunky video files.
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Clean it up before you possibly add more RAM.\nDownload the following specific programs for free and learn how to use each after temporarily turning off system restore.\nGoogle free downloads from majorgeeks.com:\nHijackthis\nHijackthis log\nAVG anti-virus\nAd-Aware anti-adware&#92;\nSpybot anti-spyware\nGood luck!!!
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memory power?\nif you mean space then defrag your harddrive\nif you mean RAM then download Ram Idle LE\nother wise buy new componants
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use crucial.com\n\nyour ram is 2.5v
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Use Crucial's Memory Tool Advisor.\n\nhttp://www.crucial.com/index.asp
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Increase your ram asap.\n\nRunning winXP on a 64mb machine is silly.
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for old computers that have problems~~~Ctrl+Alt+Delete
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^yah u could do that...or buy some kind of  memory recovering software
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All of the answers given to you are excellent.  Plus you have to defrag., if you have not performed the task.   \n\nIf you really think that a free pc boost will help go to http://www.majorgeeks.com   There you will find loads of free pc boost, or memory boost programs.   You can take your choice.  \n\nI don't recall the name, but one if you have Windows XP, there is a specific program for memory boost XP that is free of embedded spyware or trojans.   (Just search their webpage).  \n\nPerhaps with all the excellent advise, you will have to purchase an upgraded chip, which cost about $40.00\n\nClinical Psychiatrist, France
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configure your virtual memory to get an additional gb of ram from your hard drive.\nhow-to:\nhttp://www.cyberiapc.com/vm.htm
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Ok. You probably need to clean out your computer thoroughly. There are bunches of ways to do this, so let me give you a bunch of options. Keep in mind that you can get alot of this stuff for free, but if you want you can pay for some of the stuff too, I will signify that.\n\n1. You probably want to defragment the computer. There is an option for that somewhere in control panel.\n\n2.Yes, you probably want to scan disk too. To do scan disk & defragment, go into control panel, and there will be an option saying performance and maintenance (make sure your in category view, not classic view, you can tell in upper left hand corner). Then there will be a bunch of options, go through them and figure out what you want to do, a no brainer after you get into performance and maintenance.\n\n3. You might have virus's, spyware. I suggest downloading this, it's totally free. http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1\nand if you got to the page you will notice it got 5 out of 5 stars from the editor, and a average of 4.5 stars from users.\n\n4.You might want to try WinAso. this is only a trial program, it still works when it is free, but not as good. it's still a good program when it is free though. http://www.download.com/WinASO-Registry-Optimizer/3000-2094_4-10477738.html\n\nI haven't tried this one either, it's like WinAso, but it is totally free, it has good reviews, you might want to try this. http://www.download.com/Advanced-WindowsCare/3000-2086_4-10511244.html?tag=pop\n\n5. There is another program that frees up Ram on your drive, you might want to try this too http://www.download.com/FreeRAM-XP-Pro/3000-2086_4-10485945.html?tag=pop\n\n6. Other than that, that is basically all the stuff I use, my computer isn't well equipped hardware wise, but I clean it out so good it runs really well, I have WAYYY more programs than I should too. Haha. I hope that helps.
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Do it yourself.\nAdd more memory, Clean up your hard drive.\nStop unwanted programs.\nstart/run/msconfig/startup unclick crud programs.\nYou could replace the hard-drive with something bigger and faster, but then you have to reload all the software.\nMIKE
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i recommend that you use a software to free the ram memory held by unwanted processes. one handy as well as free software is Cacheman.\nu can read a review on this software at :\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,5267-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html\n\nu can download the software at:\nhttp://www.download.com/Cacheman/3000-2248_4-10216523.html