A Few Apps to Help Your Computer Run Faster

1: Memory Clean

Memory Clean is a useful memory bar application that clears up RAM after using a memory intense application that can clog up RAM and slow down the overall speed of your machine. When you click the icon, which looks like a speedometer and the number of free memory you have at the moment, the application window opens on your desktop.  There is a key of colors, showing what each color means on the bar chart of used memory. After clicking the “Clean Memory” button the percentage begins to rise at it cleans memory that you are no longer using. The first time I used this application I had only 8GB of 32GB free, after cleaning the RAM my free memory had jumped up to nearly 22GB free. I’d say that is quite the jump and my other applications are running at full speed as well.

 

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2: Activity Monitor

Activity Monitor is a pretty dense application, in that it has a good amount of features to help you. The first portion of the application is the Process screen. This shows all of the running processes on your system and how much memory they are using. At any point you can choose to quit a process, “inspect” a process, which gives you memory, statistic, and Open Files and Ports information, or sample a process as well.

The application also allows you to see CPU, System Memory, Disk Activity, Disk Usage, and Network information.

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Disk Doctor:

Disk Doctor is a great application to help get rid of unneeded and unnecessary files on your computer. When you open the application, you see a sleek window showing you a bar chart of how much space you have used, as well as your Disk’s total capacity, Free space, and Used space. Simply Scan and delete the unnecessary files it finds on the Disk, it is as simple as the 3 step process.

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