MSDN: Removes as many pages as possible from the working set of the specified process.When too many programs are using up your computer’s RAM (Random Access Memory), you may find your system becoming slow or unresponsive. to clear out the clutter from your system’s memory and get it running smoothly again use “Reduce Memory” , it will free up your RAM memory a little in Windows.

If you use it under the Normal/restricted user or with /O parameter , it will free up Memory for current user and only for Applications but if you use it with Administrator privileges it can optimize memory usage for services and Background working programs.

What is new : (Wednesday, 18 August 2021)

1. [ FIXED ] – Changing settings after selecting a different language causes errors
2. [ FIXED ] – Clicking links on the about screen causes errors
3. [ FIXED ] – Can’t write to file error
4. [ ADDED ] – User can change icons in “icons folder” and use their own icons
(Choose 4th icon packs in options menu then save the settings)
5. [ ADDED ] – Some code improvements

How to use it :

Extract the ZIP to any folder and then run the program. Click the “Clear memory” button to clear Memory Cache , You can see how much memory has been freed up for a short time.

Under Options button you can find some other options for example ; Automatically start at window startup, Hide window at startup,Minimize to the sytem try,Always show Program window  on top , Set the Amount of memory usage exceeds … If you choose Optimize memory every x Seconds , Reduce memory will optimize RAM usage automatically. You can write between 5 – 99999 seconds in the box. If a number which less than 5 is written, the box will recognize it as 5 . If you tick the Set the Amount of memory usage exceeds , when the System Memory usage reaches the threshold which specified by the slider, Ram usage will be Automatically optimized at intervals specified in the seconds box. To use your own taskbar icons ; please Choose 4th icon packs in options menu then save the settings , an icon folder will crate in the Reduce Memory root folder then you can change the icons and use your own.

You can add some Processes which you want to exclude from Ram Optimization, into the “Process Exclusion List” box. Reduce Memory has Cmd Parameter support

With your suggestions We can add it extra features and develop it further.

Supported operating systems: Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Windows Vista , Windows Xp – (x86 & x64)

Supported languages: English , Turkish , German , French , Korean , Russian , Spanish , Italian , Portuguese (BR) , Portuguese (Português), Persian , Romanian , Polish , Chinese (simplified), Chinese (Traditional) , Vietnamese , Dutch (Nederlands) , Japanese , Arabic , Georgian , Greek , Azerbaijani , lithuanian, Hebrew , Ukrainian , Czech , Spanish (Castellano) , Norwegian , Croatian

File: ReduceMemory_x64.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 8a7c9501419cf48e10e922389108f49b
SHA1: e245780a7d462ed290aba299edd4ac669b416d7f

File: ReduceMemory.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 0d626331715cc35aa377a8503f85c92a
SHA1: 26aad89595f00068151d3676297ceec394e718af