How To - Free Memory on XP/Vista

If you are running XP with 512MB of RAM or Vista with 1GB of RAM you are running with just the minimum RAM. This is a handy tip to free up some RAM without installing a dodgy program.

This tweak involves editing your registry.

Click on Start/Run and type ‘Regedit’ to open up registry editor

Browse down to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

Add a new DWORD by right clicking in right hand pane.

Name it AlwaysUnloadDLL

Right click on new value and select ‘Modify’, enter Value data: 1

You will have to restart to get this to work.

The other thing you can do is copy and paste the following in a notepad and save as dll.reg. Double click to merge into registry and reboot.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer]
"AlwaysUnloadDLL"=dword:00000001

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When you are running with low RAM every little bit helps!