CleanMem won't work for me

[boromb]

Hello,

For some reason I have trouble get CleanMem to work on my WindowsXP.
I have the schedule and I can run it. I can see that CleanMem shows in "TaskList"
but no log file creates and no memory is cleaned as I can see.

Shouldn't I always get a log file?

I have AVG AntiVirus.

Best regards!

[Evan]

If you are using version 1.5 or 1.5.1 then you can use the logging feature but it is turned off by default.  After you install the program look at the "CleanMem Log Settings" text file.  You can find that file in the program's file folder.

As far as it not appearing to work that is usually because users expect to see a program launch and do some work.  CleanMem launches in the background and does all it work in about 1 second then closes so that you aren't bothered at all.  The best way to "see" it in action is to have task manager open when you expect to run via the schedule or if you run it manually and you'll see it come and go very quickly.  Since you want it to help memory it would be counter productive if it always ran.   

Hope that clears things up a bit.  If it doesn't, let me know.

-Evan

[Evan]

Oh yeah, AVG shouldn't interfere but the best way to check that is to add CleanMem.exe to your exceptions list.  If you still don't have it working after all that then we need to dig a little deeper.

-Evan

[boromb]

If you are using version 1.5 or 1.5.1 then you can use the logging feature but it is turned off by default.  After you install the program look at the "CleanMem Log Settings" text file.  You can find that file in the program's file folder.

As far as it not appearing to work that is usually because users expect to see a program launch and do some work.  CleanMem launches in the background and does all it work in about 1 second then closes so that you aren't bothered at all.  The best way to "see" it in action is to have task manager open when you expect to run via the schedule or if you run it manually and you'll see it come and go very quickly.  Since you want it to help memory it would be counter productive if it always ran.   

Hope that clears things up a bit.  If it doesn't, let me know.

-Evan

Hello Evan,

Thanks for helping!

After I installed CleanMem I enabled logging to see that somethings happens but the log file doesn't creates.

My log settings:
logging_enabled=true
log_location=C:\cleanmem_log.txt

I have some other log files directly under C:\ and they works so I suppose it's no security thing.
I have CleanMem v1.5.1.

It's maybe working after all but it's a little bit strange for me to see that
1.9 Gb in PF Usage. CleanMem doesn't decrease that?

I have otherwise 4Gb of ram.

Regards!






 

[Shane]

Did you also put what process names for cleanmem to log?

Shane

[Evan]

Does the log file still run if you don't have any programs entered?

-Evan

[Shane]

If you don't tell it what process names to log then why would it make a empty log file? LOL

Shane

[Evan]

I could just as easily "see" from some users' point of view that they would want a log of what happened for every process but didn't want to (or know the names/PIDs) add everything manually.  In that case they might think (expect) that just enabling the logging feature and not specifying anything would result in a catch all instead of a blank log file.      See the logic?   

-Evan

[boromb]

Hello boys,

I didn't knew that I need to specify what processes I want log and expected that at least an empty log
file should be created for saying that CleanMem have run.

I've put firefox and gimp in log settings file and I get a log file now.

Works fine
Thank you!

Best regards, Boris, Sweden

[Shane]

Good to hear your all set

Locking thread

Shane