1). Start any application, say Word .
Open some large documents.
2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ ESC to open
Windows Task Manager and click
Processes tab and sort the list in
descending order on Mem Usage . You
will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be
somewhere at the top, using multiple
MBs of memory.
3). Now switch to Word and simply
minimize it. (Don't use the Minimize All
Windows option of the task bar).
4). Now go back to the WindowsTask
Manager and see where
WINWORD.EXE is listed. Most probably
you will not find it at the top. You will
typically have to scroll to the bottom of
the list to find Word . Now check out
the amount of RAM it is using.
Surprised? The memory utilization has
reduced by a hugeamount.
5). Minimize each application thatyou
are currently not working onby clicking
on the Minimize button & you can
increase the amount of available RAM
by a substantial margin. Depending
upon the number and type of
applications you use together, the
difference can be as much as 50
percent of extra RAM.
In any multitasking system, minimizing
an application means that it won't be
utilized by the user right now.
Therefore, the OS automatically makes
the application use virtual memory &
keeps bare minimum amounts of the
code in physical RAM.
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