I have seen advertisment for a program called Memturbo, which is supposed to cure memory leaks and so giving more free memory and a more stable system.Could this be a good investment when using FS9? Has someone tried this program?

I would recommend avoiding any program that runs in tandem with FS9--even if it's for the benign purpose of avoiding memory "leaks". I have no direct experience with Memturbo, but I am approached by vendors all the time trying to sell me such tools for my WAN. My answer is always "No". These programs most often run as a background process, and they also often "rob Peter to Pay Paul" by grabbing free memory from wherever they can--including areas reserved for the O/S.I run FS9 lean and mean with only 384 megs of RAM, and always run with memory to spare. I control this by not allowing any applets or services which aren't essential to my system to load. This is different from the approach of terminating apps prior to FS being launched, having already allowed them to start. Memory becomes used/fragmented quite often by just the loading process--terminating the apps after the fact relieves the system of some, but not all of this burden.There are quite a few freeware memory defragmenters out there you can try--I'd try those out first vs. paying for Memturbo or any other such program. Always assume the rule when loading apps like this on your system that they don't give you something for nothing. In the minimum, they are running in the background stealing cpu cycles that FS9 could make better use of. At the worst, I've seen them "free" so much memory that they cause the O/S to use the swap file excessively--making the FS9 experience a stuttery mess...-John

FS Autostart will defrag your memory for you. As well as helping to shut down any unnecessary applications. It is great... and free.

I hope that turbo memory program doesn't cost money. It's humbug. Those programs are incredibly simple. What that "memory defragmentation" does is that it dumps everything in the RAM to the paging file, which results in lots of free RAM. This was of some benefit in the days of Win98 but of little use with XP or 2k. If you do encounter a memory leak (e.g. the landclass bug in FS9), XP or 2K will automatically page things and when you exit FS9 virtually all previously allocted memory will be freed.If you have the Visual Baisc runtime libraries installed, you can create this program yourself:Open notepad and type:Mystring = Space(402653184)Save the file as MemTurbo.vbs and put it e.g. on the desktop. Now, simply double-click this file to "free" 384MB of memory. Increase the number inside the ( ) to free more memory. The system will feel sluggish for a while because the memory is purged and everything needs to be re-loaded from disk.Congratulations, you have created "MemTurbo". Just add a cute user interface and some spyware and you can sell it for $15. :-lol

Hi JimmiG.Thanks for my laugh of the day! ;)Dick

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The funny thing is that little vbs script does work--and you can watch it grinding away by clicking the "performance" tab under task manager. At least in the interim, it gives you a tad more free memory than prior to launching it, and it can reduce page file activity quite a bit as well once the O/S settles down. -John

>I hope that turbo memory program doesn't cost money. It'sOh yes it does. First a pop window telling me it usually cost $50 but are know sold for $30. When I close the windowI see knew window telling me STOP you can get it for $25.

Well now you know to not trust Internet ads :)It can be of some use especially if you have lots of resource-hungry programs running. All "memory defragmenters" do it the same way more or less so it doesn't matter which one you use. Be careful because lots of shareware and even freeware contain spyware (essentially trojan viruses in my view). You can even simply use that script - it works virtually as well as any other such program.If FS Autostart supports this feature (which it apprently does) then that's probably your safest bet since it will do it automatically every time you start FS. I have to say I doubt you'd see any noticable improvement though.

>I have seen advertisment for a program called Memturbo, which>is supposed to cure memory leaks and so giving more free>memory and a more stable system.>Could this be a good investment when using FS9? Has someone>tried this program?I'm assuming you believe you have memory leaks. I don't know if all would agree with this, but I have used Task Manager and just watched the use of available physical memory. Normally this slowly changes and eventually stablizes. But in some cases I've seen mem use continually go up until there was no more left. This happened after installing an add on if I recall correctly, so I was able to restore the former config and eliminated the "leak."Noel