How do programs like cleanmem work?

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This is not a programming question, but i want to know the theory behind such programs. There is a program called Cleanmem http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem[^] which automatically releases memory on schedule. Cleanmem author talks about using Windows API to achieve this. But i don't get it. How do they release memory automatically when memory reaches certain limit? In windows, some applications release memory when they are in "Minimized" state. I would want to implement such in my programs so that it releases memory itself after some time. I develop applications using C# on visual studio 2005.

Posted 26-Jul-11 7:44am

Praveen Kullu

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-26T08:06:00

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In C#, you release memory and resources by calling Dispose on objects that offer it, and perhaps from forcing the garbage collector to run, which you should not need to do unless you have a lot of big files in your app ( videos or images perhaps )

Posted 26-Jul-11 8:06am

Christian Graus

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Praveen Kullu 26-Jul-11 14:27pm

Actually i wanted to take control of the resources because i am developing a desktop application using ado.net for an institution which will be running 10 hours a day continuously. Such an application will surely get heavier on resources with time.