MEMORYBOOST PRO 2
                    Review by Sarasota PC Users Group

Talk about ingenuity and excellence in shareware, here's a superb utility
that belongs on everybody's computer regardless of which current version of
Windows you are running, including XP. It recently received a well-deserved
5 star (highest) rating from ZDNet and is something I encourage each and
every one of you to download free for 30 day trial from rosecitysoftware.com.
The cost to purchase afterward is $19.95 and worth much more.

Memory is a key operational component of your computer. What comes from
your hard drive and you see on your screen is not running directly from
your hard drive, but running in your computer's random access memory,
commonly known as RAM. Most computers today come with at least 128 MB of
RAM. Wise users add more to total 256 or 512 MB. Run a few applications
simultaneously and you would be amazed at how fast that RAM is gobbled up.
To add insult to injury, you more than likely have all kinds of memory hogs
that you are not even aware of running in the background that are activated
when you start up your computer, most of which you are likely completely
unaware of. Furthermore, as you use and then shut down programs, they do
not always oblige by returning the memory they used while running. The net
consequence of these factors is that you frequently run low on memory.

As your memory supply is depleted, your computer starts to run slow and
funky, programs freeze and frequently crash. Your hard drive is constantly
clicking and spinning in the background as it attempts to catch up with
your input. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have something running that will
constantly keep you upraised of the status of your memory and intercedes
when necessary to return the RAM your computer needs? That's the job that
MemoryBoost Pro readily will do, and a whole lot more as well! As
MemoryBoost Pro works, it will speed up your computer and prevent crashes
resulting from RAM depletion and restore stability and efficiency to your
entire system. You can instantly and graphically see the current status of
your memory and how and where it is being used. An easy current readout
appears via MemoryBoost Pro's icon sitting in your system tray.

With the help and advice from the excellent documentation in MemoryBoost
Pro, you can set and keep your available memory at a desired pre-determined
level. MemoryBoost Pro will automatically intercede for you to boost your
memory to the desired level of RAM when it falls below a critical level.
Optionally and at any time, a quick click of a hot key combination will
also instantly provide a "quick boost" and return the RAM that has been
depleted. Furthermore, MemoryBoost Pro's "Detective" provides an accurate
list of every item running in memory at any time and exactly how much it is
using. Employing this feature, I discovered and was able to eliminate items
placed resident in memory at startup that I was completely unaware of and
did not even appear in Windows' own listing obtained from the startup tab
at msconfig. I was further able to discover how much of a drag on my system
was created by some items I had chosen to run in memory and did not
necessarily belong there. MemoryBoost Pro makes it easy and accurate to get
right at the root of your memory problems and do something about it.

MemoryBoost Pro provides a system optimization feature that lets you
designate how much memory you'd like to be used for the disk cache and
various other performance enhancements within Windows.  It also offers an
easy-to-use Optimizer Wizard, which will optimize your system based on the
types of programs you like to run.  Using the Wizard, you don't need to
know anything about your system; MemoryBoost Pro will supply all the
technical know-how.

MemoryBoost Pro can also create special shortcuts for your programs, which
boost memory before they run.  If you have a big spreadsheet, or an
intensive game, and you need a large amount of memory for it, MemoryBoost
Pro can clear the way to ensure that the program runs at optimum speed.
MemoryBoost Pro Pro's shortcuts even work for documents and files. You can
instruct MemoryBoost Pro to avoid certain programs.  If you want to run a
high- intensity game and don't want MemoryBoost Pro to step in and manage
memory while you're playing, you can put the game on the Avoided Programs
list. Extensive and easy to understand on-screen documentation about the
program's operation and memory in general are provided in Memory Boost's
help menu. Additionally, it offers an instant explanation of each of the
features you select as you go.

There are lots of memory utilities around, both independent and as part of
various utility suites that boast memory assistance. None of them offer
anywhere near what Memory Boost Pro does. It is the only complete memory
utility we know of. It not only boasts ZDNet's highest rating, but ours as
well. You have nothing to lose. Download a free 30 day trial at
rosecitysoftware.com and see for yourself exactly what we are talking
about!

Sarasota PC Users Group
http://spcug.org/
January 5, 2002