MemTurbo™ 4 is a highly acclaimed and powerful application that can optimize memory and manage the cache. Applications can now use memory without forcing Windows to go to the hard drive. This leads to an increase in system’s performance, lowering the computer's response time.

Everybody talks about computer RAM, but what does RAM mean? RAM (Random Access Memory) can be thought of as a temporary storage area for your computer. Everytime you start a program or open a file, the computer stores information related to them in RAM. It's important to realize that RAM is finite, which means that the more applications or files you open, less RAM is available. At some point, the computer will run out of RAM. When this happens, the computer has to start using the hard drive to compensate for the lack of RAM. Since the hard disk is much slower than the RAM, this can cause your computer's performance to slow down. MemTurbo can help in these situations, when applications are no longer active. MemTurbo can reclaim lost resources and put them to better use. By reclaiming resources, the computer does not need to access the hard drive as frequently. This will greatly enhance your computer's performance.

You can install MemTurbo™ 4 on your system easily and quickly by following these simple steps given below. Make sure to uninstall ALL MemTurbo™ versions on your computer before continuing.

Turn on the computer. The computer should be running on one of these operating systems. Windows 2000/2003/2005/98/ME/NT/XP

Log on to your system as local administrator or use an account with similar privileges.

1. If you have received the setup as a self extracting file, run MemTurbo.exe to install MemTurbo™ 4.

2. If you received this version of MemTurbo on a CD ROM, please insert the disk in the CD drive and setup will run automatically. Please note that the Auto Run option should be enabled for this. In case the setup does not start automatically, open the Start menu and choose Run. Enter the drive letter of your CD-ROM-drive followed by a backslash "\" and the name of the installation program "Setup.exe". For example "F:\Setup.exe". This will start the setup process.

Follow the setup instructions as shown on the screen. Default settings are best.

After setup is successfully completed, the MemTurbo program will be installed and launched automatically. You will be able to see the MemTurbo icon in the system tray.

To uninstall, go to your startup menu, control panel, add/remove programs. You can remove MemTurbo 4 from here.

You can customize MemTurbo settings from the main screen, also known as the control panel. The default window of MemTurbo displays a complete information overview about your system memory and also tell you the current state of the available and used memory on the system.

In the configure section, you can modify the various options of MemTurbo. Here, you are able to set whether you want the program to start when Windows starts, or to recover RAM when a particular level is reached, etc. You can also set hotkeys and set memory graph speeds.

You may also use PC Tuneup which has performance tweaks for Windows to get the most out of your system. All of these options are outlined in detail in the following sections.

MemTurbo includes CPU Rocket and RAM Tuner technologies which fine-tune your memory allocation and processor optimization to the most active applications. This focuses the power of your computer directly on the programs you use most, maximizing your computing experience.

Setting your AutoRecover and Target Levels properly helps to ensure that some memory is available at all times. The default setting for AutoRecover works for most users. If you set this setting too high, your computer may constantly try and recover RAM, even when it’s not supposed to. Ideally, the AutoRecover should be set between 10-25% of the total system’s RAM. (Depending on how much RAM your system has.) The goal here is to recover most memory, but not all memory. If you try and recover too much memory, you may take away resources from essential system applications.

For Target Levels, you won’t be able to recover 100% of the RAM. This is up to the user on how much you want to recover, depending on what application you’re running. For example, you may want to recover different amounts of RAM, depending on whether you’re running a PC game or if you’re preventing your computer from stalling.

Using the AutoRecover and Target Level settings will help keep the available memory balanced and in a certain range. This will help avoid long recoveries, which can slow down PC performance.