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Whats the advantage of using RAMpage instead of the VB scripting trick?

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Whats the advantage of using RAMpage instead of the VB scripting trick?

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Note: If you don’t know what the “VB scripting trick” is, look for the “FREE MORE MEMORY” trick here: http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip.htm If you run RAMpage when Windows starts it grabs 150K of memory. As a result, even if you have almost 0 bytes of free memory, its very likely that you will still be able to double click the tray icon and get RAMpage to do its job, (and this case has been “tested” by a number of unfortunate users). If you have the VB script lying about somewhere, its very UN-likely that you will even be able to load the necessary VB DLLs when you reach this sorry state of affairs — in other words, time to think “Ctrl-Alt-Delete”. If you run the VB script on a schedule using the System Agent, you are wasting valuable resources (a) running the System Agent, and (b) running the script even if your free memory is high. RAMpage does use some resources, but it will only free memory when your free RAM falls below a threshold. Also, it becomes “less persistent” if it i

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