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Weza Said,
March 23rd, 2009 @2:21 pm  

Thanks, it worked.

I use many heavy applications, i thought to try this out after closing the applications such as AutoCAD and 3DSMAX.

And it really helped for sure :) keep up the good work!

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March 26th, 2009 @6:15 am  

Excellent Tip – Thanks MUCH !

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April 4th, 2009 @6:13 am  

I must be doing something wrong with this shortcut. It is a great idea and a wonderful tip. I have created the shortcut but it says the location cannot be found.

Anyway, great idea.

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Liane Said,
April 5th, 2009 @8:26 am  

That was so easy! Thanks for it worked brilliantly smooth! I use TuneUp Utilities for freeing the computer memory but I’m having trouble when using other programs along with it. The computer get’s stuck-up especially when it starts to defrag.

Wonderful tip, you’re a genius!

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Zubair Said,
April 5th, 2009 @6:22 pm  

Thanks Liane :)

Glad you found it useful :)

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jazzminjoy Said,
April 12th, 2009 @8:27 pm  

I’m running Windows XP. When I pasted in
%windir%system32rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
and clicked next, I got a “file not found” error and could not proceed. I can browse for a file–can you provide the directory path? Thanks.

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Zubair Said,
April 12th, 2009 @9:55 pm  

@Jazzminjoy:
This file resides in the system32 folder – the path would be “C:\WINDOWS\system32\“.

Sorry you were having trouble though – But i just tried adding again by entering this and it worked:
%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

Let me know if that helps

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April 23rd, 2009 @12:29 am  

Great post

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May 9th, 2009 @10:33 pm  

Excellent little tip, definitely worth sharing.

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Zubair Said,
May 9th, 2009 @11:10 pm  

Thanks, dragon blogger :)

glad you found it useful :)

just checked out your blog and i really your content and work.

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May 9th, 2009 @11:13 pm  

This is great and works a treat, found it through Dragon Bloggers’ Tweet, nice one ;)

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Zubair Said,
May 9th, 2009 @11:14 pm  

Thanks Karen :-)

Glad it worked for you too :)

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Antrax Said,
May 10th, 2009 @12:26 am  

Thanks alot – it worked smoothly indeed.

i was having a issue – when i was copying and pasting the code:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTask

it was for some reason adding a line break, right after rundll32.exe

i copied the entire text first to notepad and then added it to the short-cut and it worked!.

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dnljames Said,
May 28th, 2009 @3:21 pm  

thanks for great posting, i really like your content and work.

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May 30th, 2009 @3:58 pm  

This is really awesome and it works… I shared this with all my office mates and they were saying that this is awesome….

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Zubair Said,
May 31st, 2009 @11:38 pm  

Thanks, I’m glad it worked out for everyone :)

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irtiza104 Said,
June 23rd, 2009 @12:26 pm  

nice trick. currently my pc is running great. if i have any trouble with the speed, i’ll try it out.

best wishes.

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Zubair Said,
June 23rd, 2009 @10:55 pm  

Thanks, I’m sure it’ll help alot :)

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Lacy Said,
June 24th, 2009 @10:03 am  

Pretty good post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
that I have really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!

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Zubair Said,
June 25th, 2009 @11:52 pm  

Thanks Lacy and everyone, i’m glad you found this useful :)

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June 28th, 2009 @3:48 pm  

does this work for vista as well? i tried to add shortcut and it said “The file “%windir%system32rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks” cannot be found.”

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Zubair Said,
June 28th, 2009 @9:45 pm  

@Abdul Rehman:

sorry mate, but i don’t think it would work on Window Vista since i think they both have different files and structure.

It might be possible maybe but that would mean to find the required files manually, and if they exist theres a chance it might work but can’t guarantee that since i haven’t been able to test it on Windows Vista.

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July 9th, 2009 @9:44 pm  

Thank you for this quick tutorial on how to free up memory. It works like a charm. Kudos

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August 6th, 2009 @11:48 am  

That was to easy. Thanks for sharing it! And this is an excellent post.

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Larry Miller Said,
August 12th, 2009 @7:17 pm  

The author has misunderstood the function of this command. By default, Windows schedules a number of system maintenance tasks that are run during idle time every 3 days. These are the “idle tasks”. Running the command starts these tasks now, even if the system is not idle. This can impact application performance.

The command does not free memory, as will be quite obvious if you have Task Monitor open while running it. Windows manages memory very well on it’s own without such hacks.

In some unusual cases this command may appear to be beneficial. But that is not it’s purpose and will not be the normal case.

Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA

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Matthew Said,
August 12th, 2009 @9:33 pm  

Super!

i dont know if its right or wrong but after i closed photoshop c4 it usually slows down my pc alot, i usually restart my computer but i tried this hack and it really worked great! thank you!

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September 3rd, 2009 @11:20 am  

Very informative and helpful, keep it up good work. Thanks

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