Disk Cleanup or Release RAM programmatically

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hello, Can We make a disk cleanup(Like Windows 7) in vb.net?
And how to release RAM via vb.net programmatically ?

Posted 2-Sep-13 2:27am

Nirav Chauhan

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[no name] 2-Sep-13 9:16am

For your first question, you would, learn VB,NET, do some research, come up with some program requirements. write some code, test, fix bugs.
For your second question, don't worry about it. The garbage collector handles that for you.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Sep-13 10:48am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02T09:26:00

First, you would gather a large set of requirements detailing exactly what you mean by "disk cleanup". What are the items you cleaning up? Where do you look for them? What kinds of things can you clean up and what are the things you should touch? This is going to take a bunch of research on your part, not ours.

As for "freeing memory", you don't. You absolutely do not touch the memory space of another process (you can't without admin permissions anyway!) unless you want to make the system so unstable it crashes at least an application or two, and at worst, all of Windows.