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| Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov | |
| Sunday, 01 July 2007 | |
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Free RAM in the memory category is probably the most helpful out of this program. It's always good to free up memory before running a demanding application. And you'd be surprised how much can be freed up by simply running a 5 second test. Having it run automatically past a certain point can be a blessing at times but a curse at others. For instance, going back to CS, somewhere in the game memory usage will most likely get past a reasonably set limit for auto recovery, at which point SpeedUpMyPC comes to the front of the screen and runs the test. This has a tendency to seriously mess up the game, most notably killing the audio and requiring a restart. So with some applications it may not be such a hot idea. But it's great when your memory usage goes way up for no apparent reason and stays there. Again, your mileage may very as the combination of software and hardware impacts the outcome. I can say, however, that for me internet loading times have improved noticeably after I ran that optimization. The startup menu also helps. But it seems to me that major improvements don't happen on already "optimized" systems. If there aren't any unnecessary programs running, if you didn't make the mistake of installing AOL which plasters itself all over your hard drive, then there's not much for the program to do. And it's not flawed either, as the last screenshot shows. There I was running RAM recovery over and over until my usage went from about 70% down to 26% or so. So I go get some food, only to come back and find SpeedUpMyPC, the anti-crash program, crashing on me. Not much one can do at that point. The whole rant comes down to this: it's a good program for everyone to have, but only great for the average user. When I first bought my Dell Inspiron 8200, I was greeted by five or so media players, when all I wanted was one. Along with about ten icons in the taskbar. And this is what most people deal with oblivious to the fact that they're only using about 10% of the programs running on their machine. SpeedUpMyPC is designed for people like that. It doesn't have many advanced settings and there isn't much documentation on what the "optimize" functions actually do. Furthermore, freebie programs out there can do much of the same, though you'd be hard pressed to find one which bring it all together in such a simple and, dare I say, user-friendly way. Pros
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