This software have an easy way to free memory in Windows systems.
It works allocating all non-used memory in the system to occupy all "pending" memory, after that it frees all the allocated memory to let it completely free, not "half-free, half-pending-to-free" as Windows usually handle it.
The last version of the program check your physical free memory on your computer to do the cleaning automatically without any stability issue.
- Some bugs found in the code are solved.
- Changed the default percentage of used memory from 90% to 80% to resolve stability issues.
- Changes in the arguments. Now you set a percentage to clean instead a fixed value of kilobytes.
- Added a check to 32-bit version users to advise them to use the 64-bit version when there are more than 2 GB of RAM to clean.
- Refactored the code and the "Read Me" file.
- Bugs fixed and refactored some parts
- Now the releases are compiled with with debugging symbols, and the debugging files are attached to the executable.
- Changed how memory are allocated. Now does it in bigger chunks.
There are compiled binaries to use Windows machines in addition to the single C source file. If you have less than 4 GB of RAM you could use both, but if you use the 32-bit version in a 64-bit machine it will not work properly.
Here are binaries and code downloads:
- Download source code: MemCleaner.c
- Download 64-bit version (Recommended): MemCleaner64.v1.2.zip
- Download 32-bit version: MemCleaner32.v1.2.zip
Do not use the versions in the "OldVersions" folder: It will try to get all your system memory and make it unstable. Use it at your own risk.
This program is completely targeted to Windows machines, in other OS the memory management works different and have diffent problems and solutions. Also, it uses non-portable Windows functions unavailable in other OS.
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