[SOLVED] Intelligent Standby List Cleaner

[Shadow0201]

I have been trying to improve system performance within the last week and I came across an application called Intelligent Standby List Cleaner. I took a look at what it does and I learned that it purges memory if I am not mistaken after a certain threshold of memory left is met. I was concerned about this because I learned before that memory cleaning applications are actually quite harmful to the ram sticks. I am not sure if this application will harm the memory in anyway as long as I put manageable settings.

Aside from this, I am mostly focused in the setting in the app that changes the timer resolution to a fixed value. I want my timer resolution to stay at .500 all the time. I have tried to research to see if I could do this in group policy editor or the registry editor but I have not really found anything that works.

Anyways, I would like to know if this application is completely safe to use. I appriciate any information shared. Thank you.

 

[Colif]

well, the guy who made it also made DDU

meant to help with fps in games, I can't find a review for it though

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1256

freeing standby shouldn't help, its not like that ram isn't available if the program needs it, windows is just using it to store information that it likely needs. Its better to have info in ram than on storage as the speed difference is massive
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...y/473ec497-f99e-40e4-a988-89f2cfcaefcc?auth=1
buying more ram is a better idea than to mess with windows memory management. Unless you have 32gb now.

 

[hotaru.hino]

The standby list is simply cache. If the OS needs more RAM, it overwrites what's in there first if there's not enough actual free RAM. I can't imagine this app helping unless your computer is a potato.

 

[Shadow0201]

Ok, I understand what both of you are saying. In that case, how about the timer resolution?

 

[Colif]

looks up timer resolution...

The standard windows timer has an interval of 10 to 25 miliseconds, timer resolution claims to be able to change that to 0.5 miliseconds. So the theory is you will get better FPS on your games

I could not find a Windows 10 version, it is a very old utility, which was originally written for Windows XP and PC's have gotten to be much faster since . . .

Again like your other question, the gains form this utility will be minimal as your gaming action will rely more on the clock speed of your CPU, GPU and data buses, rather than the system timer . . .

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...e-it-for/143c50ee-d088-4a07-9fc1-ff6dcdbb22d0

The default timer resolution on Windows is 15.6 ms – a timer interrupt 64 times a second. When programs increase the timer frequency they increase power consumption and harm battery life. They also waste more compute power than I would ever have expected – they make your computer run slower! Because of these problems Microsoft has been telling developers to not increase the timer frequency for years.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2...r resolution on,make your computer run slower! (link is from 2013 but webpage is updated)

it could potentially slow CPU down.

 

[Shadow0201]

Ok I understand how it works. So it is better if I do not mess with these values manually and let windows 10 handle it, correct?

 

[Shadow0201]

And again, thank you for the information.

 

[Colif]

I would just let windows manage it. In fact, I do since I had to look up what it was before answering.

I find windows can break easy so not fiddling with values you aren't sure about seems best way to make sure it keeps working.