For example, ATI and NVIDA have included dozens or even hundreds of graphics card drivers from the oldest to the latest. Your graphics card only needs one of them, and the others are redundant.
There are also many drivers that include the control panel function, which is convenient to adjust at any time, which is also a great burden.
Some also add software functions in addition to hardware support, such as ALC's sound card driver, which was originally only 500k, but it was made into 15M, which increased to 30 times.
Some also include a help function, which will automatically load the driver when it is opened, and you can't delete it yet.
This is caused by hardware manufacturers requiring software writers to do so. Why else do you have to buy memory to upgrade CPU? Won't they starve to death without buying new ones?
Don't say the driver is like this. Isn't XP itself like this?
At present, the common sound card driver and video card driver take up about 30M of memory when they are loaded together, which is why it is more than 70m at first, but it becomes more than 100 m after the driver is installed.
How to solve it?
Just install the driver for singles. This driver contains only one hardware driver. You don't need its adjustment panel, just use the one that comes with WINDOWS.
A better way is not to run setup.exe or install.exe in these drivers for installation, but to manually upgrade the drivers from the control panel system, point the target to the folder where the drivers are located, and the operating system will search the inf file for installation.
Some drivers only have one file from setup.exe or intall.exe after downloading, so it doesn't matter. You can extract it with winrar, and then install it manually by the above method.
A compromise is that if some hardware does not use the full version of the driver, its performance will not be fully utilized. For example, NVIDA's graphics card, if you only use the driver that comes with WINDOWS, the game performance will be greatly reduced. But if installed, the memory usage will increase, which is indeed a contradiction.
If your machine configuration is not high and the hardware performance is not high, use the driver that comes with WINDOWS.
By the way, if the device system you are using is unrecognizable, such as CM8738 sound card, then when installing the driver, you can decompress it first (without using SETUP), and then install the driver from the device manager, and only read the INF file in the corresponding system folder. WINDOWS will automatically load some programs that are useful to the device, instead of installing those help files or accessibility programs.
Your computer is out of memory, and you don't want to increase it. There are seven other ways:
First: clear the contents of the clipboard.
Clipboard is a temporary storage area in memory, which is used to store information cut or copied by various application software. If a picture or a long text was stored in the clipboard at that time, which occupied a considerable amount of memory, it might lead to insufficient memory, so as long as the picture or text in the clipboard was eliminated, the problem of insufficient memory could be solved. To clear the contents of the clipboard, click Start, Programs, Attachments, Clipboard Viewer, open the Clipboard Viewer window, click Delete on the Edit menu, and finally click Yes. You may find this a bit troublesome, so you might as well replace the image or text in the clipboard with very little content (such as spaces). For example, if you use Word97 to edit a document, you can select a space in the document and click the Cut and Paste button on the standard toolbar. This space will replace the original image or text in the clipboard, which can also save memory.
Second: reserve hard disk space as extra memory.
Right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop, and then left-click Properties to open the System Properties dialog box. Click the Performance tab in this dialog box, then click the Virtual Memory button, select Windows to manage virtual memory, and finally click the OK button.
Third, delete the programs in the Startup group that don't need Windows to automatically load.
First, check which programs load automatically when Windows starts. Click the Start button, point to Programs, and then point to Start. At this point, the menu listed is the program that is automatically loaded when Windows starts. Deleting unnecessary programs and restarting the computer can also save memory.
The specific deletion method is:
(1) Start Explorer and find the folder C: \ Windows \ Start Menu \ Programs \ "Start \";
(2) Select programs and shortcuts that don't need Windows to automatically load, and then click Delete on the File menu, and a dialog box will pop up to confirm deletion;
(3) Click the "Yes" button in the deletion confirmation dialog box.
Fourth, adjust the size of the buffer.
The so-called cache refers to the "pre-reading" technology adopted by the system when reading data on disks and optical disks. That is, the data that the user estimates to be read is pre-read into the memory cache, so that the CPU can read the data in the cache faster, thus improving the running speed. Windows can automatically set the cache size according to the memory size, and users can also set it according to their own memory size. I recommend that anyone with 64MB or more memory adjust the cache to the maximum.
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There are many memory optimization softwares, among which RAM Idle, Freemem and Memokit are excellent memory optimization tools. These softwares can be set to automatically empty the clipboard, release the unreleased memory of closed programs, and reorganize Win386.swp files. , thus saving you the trouble of manual operation and achieving the purpose of automatically releasing memory. Give it a try!
Memo Kit is a software for optimizing memory under Windows9x/NT/2000. It has three characteristics: first, it must be safe. When using, you don't have to worry that the system will suddenly get sick and cause such problems. Secondly, it is powerful. In addition to reorganizing the Win386.swp file, it can also completely release the space previously stored in memory for other programs, which can improve the running efficiency of the system by up to 40%. Thirdly, you can optimize the functions of hard disk and cache, and fully tap all the potential of hard disk. The attached perpetual calendar and calculator will make you feel very convenient when you need it.
After installing Memo Kit, every time the system starts, there will be more small icons in the taskbar, and a floating box of current system status will appear on the screen, with the lower limit of free memory displayed on the leftmost side, the currently available memory information displayed in the middle, and the date and time displayed on the rightmost side. Generally speaking, Memo Kit will default the left and right physical memory to 1/8 as the lower limit of free memory, but you can use the up/down arrows to adjust it. Once the available free memory drops to this value, it will immediately take over and delete the useless information residing in the memory and return more memory to you.
Although the computer can help us clean up the memory when necessary, more often we all want to get more available memory space, so we need to optimize the memory manually.
Right-click the icon in the icon bar, enter "Memo Kit/Set Total Free Memory" and select the amount of memory to optimize. There are also functions such as setting the lower limit of free memory, automatically optimizing memory time and optimizing disk cache. It is worth mentioning that memory time is automatically optimized. There are many schemes for you to choose from, but it is recommended not to choose the scheme of 1 minute, because releasing memory space too frequently will lead to the decline of system efficiency, and generally choose 10 minute to clean up. If you are interested in this software, you can download the latest version online and try it out.
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Sixth: kill the virus
Maybe your computer is just infected with a computer virus, and the lack of memory is because the virus is working. Removing the virus can also solve the problem of insufficient memory. Of course, the way is to use good antivirus software to kill viruses.
Seventh: Close unnecessary windows.
You open too many windows, in fact, you exercise multiple programs and consume more memory. At this time, you can close the temporarily unused window and turn off the unused program functions (such as status bar, ruler, taskbar, etc.). ) to save memory.
Comprehensive use of the above methods. The fifth one is recommended, and it is best to use it in combination. If you have tried the above seven methods and still feel that playing strange domain games or other memory is not enough, you will have to spend money to buy another memory stick.