Speed Up My PC 3.0

Here's a utility from Uniblue (liutilities) that seems pretty useful.

It allows you to free up RAM, optimise the way applications use clock cycles and clean up backup files you don't need...

It all seems great in principle, my work PC is seriously short on memory, and any utility that could return some memory to the pool after apps are done with it would be welcome.

This is what the Memory Optimization feature looks like - notice the "Free Up RAM" and "Deep RAM Recovery" buttons.

The problem is, however, that these optimizers don't tend to work well on systems running near their limits - and Speed Up My PC 3.0 on my work PC was no exception. After freeing up RAM a few times, the system got unstable, and the utility doesn't do anything about PF usage either, which seems a glaring omission.

It did seem to perform its other functions well enough, but it was the memory management I was most interested in and, ultimately, most disappointed by.

Don't be put off by my less than glowing review - try it yourself.