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Clear Vista Memory Cache

If your Vista computer is feeling a little sluggish after being up for a while, a thing that sometimes helps is clearly the memory cache. This helps free up unused RAM, and having more available RAM can make your computer faster. For me, I keep a shortcut to this command on my desktop so that whenever I need it, it's just a click away.

To create this shortcut right click your mouse on an empty area of your desktop and select New -> Shortcut. When you are asked for the location of the shortcut, enter the following:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

then click Next. You can then assign a name and an icon to the shortcut. Next time your computer feels slow, click on this icon to free up available memory and hopefully your computer will be faster afterwards.
Rating: 33% positive, 3 total Votes
Categories: Vista speed memory desktop shortcut
Added: on May 13, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Added By: an anonymous user

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It doesn't work for me. After I set up the icon, double click on it, check Task Manager again, nothing.
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