Release RAM, Reduce Windows Crashing
(My Escape from Windows Prison and its Brutal Mental Torture)
Donald A. Coggan, PE
Special Edition
MONTREAL, August 12, 2000 - Like a bullied prison sissy, I had become used to the punishment. In fact, after several times a day, I had grown immune to it. It was an accepted way of life. I'm talking about Windows crashes of course. Release RAM has changed all that. Now I know how good life can be on the outside. After dozens of sessions of my therapy group (fellow entrepreneurs actually) describing the daily system crashes, it finally dawned on me that "low on resources" meant too much RAM was being used. (Why didn't they just call it RAM, anyway?) But in another sense I didn't understand it, because closing programs did not seem to make more resources available. Hadn't all those smart people at Microsoft thought of some way of dealing with that, especially after humiliating their leader with public crashes at big trade shows? Along comes Release RAM, a $15 software solution that doesn't even claim to reduce crashes. All it does is free up RAM. It constantly monitors AND displays the available RAM on your system - in real time. When it gets too low, you can release some manually. Or you can put it on auto-pilot and it will never let the available RAM go below a set minimum. What a pleasure to see this little guy chugging away doing what Windows should have been doing all along! I'm still not sure what it is that takes up so much RAM. Maybe it's all the icons on my desktop. Maybe it's all the little start buttons on my task bar. Maybe it's hidden terminate-and-stay-resident programs. And I still don't understand why when I close a program, it doesn't release the same RAM it busied up when it started. And I don't care. Just as I'm happy without understanding why when my headache goes away, I'm happy that Release RAM has reduced Windows crashes from several a day to so few that the number I've had in the last two weeks can be counted on one finger. Oh, there are still some program crashes, especially non-Microsoft programs like Netscape, WordPerfect and Eudora. But that's another story. In addition to it working wonders, everything about Release RAM is great. You can get a free trial version. You can send the developer e-mail and he responds promptly. You can order it easily by credit card. You can register it easily. In fact, whether it's how the program works or how you acquire it, everything seems to have been well thought out. Liberate yourself. Give it a try! (... more) -30-
Throughout nearly 30 years of business starting in 1967, Don Coggan has held positions ranging from sales engineer to general manager to business owner. Since early 1996, he has been providing bilingual Internet business consulting services across the US and Canada to clients in the private and public sectors. He can be reached by e-mail at don@naftatrade.com.
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