Most of us have some Windows 9x (and Windows 3.1 - shhh don't tell anyone your age!) hangovers. One of them is the idea of needing to keep memory freed up - especially since under older versions of the OS we'd have application problems and system hangs...
Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals debunks the old ideas of needing a utility to constantly watch dog and clear our memory "in case you might load something else." He also talks about how efficient Windows is at managing memory. Some of the reader comments on the article are very insightful as well.
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