{"id":1154,"date":"2007-05-09T12:49:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/pump-up-your-ram-using-software\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:55:56","slug":"pump-up-your-ram-using-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/pump-up-your-ram-using-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Pump up your RAM using software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"RAM\" id=\"image1156\" title=\"RAM\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/05\/copy-of-ram.jpg\" \/>If you use lots of programs simultaneously, you&#8217;d better make sure you&#8217;ve got plenty of RAM. If you haven&#8217;t, then you&#8217;ll probably be experiencing lots of slow switching between programs, &#8216;hangs&#8217; and even system crashes. However, there are a few RAM management applications you can use to make sure that your PC optimises usage and best of all, most of them are completely free.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most effective is <a href=\"http:\/\/bysoft-freeram.en.softonic.com\/\">BySoft FreeRAM<\/a> that not only manages your RAM but also your system cache. It works by quietly reclaiming RAM from &#8216;leaking&#8217; applications that hog your memory. You can set limits on exactly how much you want it to reclaim &#8211; and when &#8211; as well as see a graphical representation of your overall RAM usage. <a href=\"http:\/\/freeram-xp.en.softonic.com\/\">FreeRAM XP<\/a> is another easy to use option and also features a shortcut button which immediately frees-up RAM on demand. It&#8217;s worth noting that this process can take a few seconds during which period your PC is temporarily frozen.<\/p>\n<p>If neither of these help and you think your RAM may be damaged in some way, then <a href=\"http:\/\/memtest.en.softonic.com\/\">MemTest<\/a> can run a series of diagnostic checks. MemTest will display a report on completion of the test to indicate whether there are serious errors with your RAM. This can sometimes be the case if you&#8217;ve tweaked your BIOS settings or you&#8217;re hardware has become corrupted or damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, though, no RAM management software can replace the benefits of adding more RAM to your machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use lots of programs simultaneously, you&#8217;d better make sure you&#8217;ve got plenty of RAM. If you haven&#8217;t, then you&#8217;ll probably be experiencing lots of slow switching between programs, &#8216;hangs&#8217; and even system crashes. However, there are a few RAM management applications you can use to make sure that your PC optimises usage and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/pump-up-your-ram-using-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pump up your RAM using software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337704,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/337704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}