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Sylex22:
Thanks Lanux,

I will get some screen shots for you...

Interesting that the orginal post mentions the reduction in Memory usage. I did some calculations and it looks like it will save between 64% and 70% of memory just by minimising these apps! In a Terminal Server enviroment this is HUGE!

How are your apps behaving after using this app?

I'm testing using Office 2003 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Internet Explorer 7, Pivotal eRelationship (problem app) to see how they behave.

Cheers,
Sylex22

Sylex22:
Also found this but it seems to use a constant 10% CPU.

http://lifehacker.com/software/downloads/lifehacker-code-swept-away-windows-255055.php

lanux128:
Also found this but it seems to use a constant 10% CPU.-Sylex22 (April 29, 2008, 05:01 AM)
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i thought that problem had been solved since i last posted about it but it seems apparently not. btw, i don't use the program all the time, so i can't say for sure how much are the RAM savings.. :)

also Sylex22, here's an idea on how to retrieve info about a program.

Sylex22:
I've been testing Swept Away all day and it seems to be doing the job, however it still has a problem with Pivotal eRelation (both Swept Away and MinimOther) and had to exclude it for now in Swept Away which is handy as I can push on until a fix.

Annoyning thing is that Pivitol eats up all the memory, but hopefully by minimizing the other apps (IE 7, Word, Excel etc etc)it will still make a huge difference to the memory usage!

So for the moment I'm happy using Swept Away as it has more features. MinimOther is great (does what it says on the tin).

lanux128:
Annoyning thing is that Pivitol eats up all the memory, but hopefully by minimizing the other apps (IE 7, Word, Excel etc etc)it will still make a huge difference to the memory usage!-Sylex22 (April 29, 2008, 10:28 AM)
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how much RAM do you have on your system? if it's less than 1GB, it's better to upgrade since that way you'll gain a lot in terms of productivity. :)

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