RUNDLL32 EXE ADVAPI32 FULL
Now, after running the above command which has worked for Win7 and earlier, the committed and cached memory values do not change.Īlso, since most major apps are still legacy Desktop type apps, I'm more interested in clearing the memory space those apps use compared to RT type apps.Īfter finding nothing for weeks using various Internet searches, I looked specifically for TechNet and MSDN articles which also turned up nothing, although there is a "cache" class which might be experimented with. First we must turn on full page heap in rundll32 with the following command: C:BugId>pageheap rundll32.exe ON Next we will start BugId and tell it to start rundll32 with arguments that instruct it to load advapi32.dll and call CloseThreadWaitChainSession.
Because of the way the memory map is likely divided,Ĭommitted RAM does not often exceed that amount. On a major complaint of mine, it appears that Win10 and likely Win8 divide the memory map into what can be used by WinRT and legacy Desktop Windows apps, approximately half each no matter whether the load). Using Task Manager on a 12GB RAM machine, I can see that shortly after boot about 3.1GB is committed, after a major workload is about 6.7 GB (This touches Give your shortcut a nice name like Clear Memory.5. This frees up any idle tasks running in the background so that Windows XP can devote its. .Type windirsystem32rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in the box.Click Next. I have determined that the above command which works for Win7 and earlier does not do anything in Win10. In the Run box, type Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks. %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
With Win7 and earlier, the following typically could be used to clear memory cache and buffers Manually clearing memory cache and buffers enables the User to continue to work without rebooting. The ability to manually clear memory cache and buffers is critical and essential when switching from one major intensively memory workload to another, else you'd have to depend on Windows somehow understanding that recent files and applications would neverīe used again (asking the impossible) and use its own garbage collection algorithm.