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Originally Posted by Haesslich

Mobile View - DinarSoft's MemMaid 2.0 Reviewed! Just got the program myself, since I knew it'd be out today. Will try it out and see how it goes. Remember: current MemMaid 1.0 users get an upgrade discount; check out DinarSoft for details and the upgrade discount information. Edit: First impressions are as follows: 1) Redone interface. Very VGA friendly, unlike the old one. 2) The RAM reclamation and compression functions are in the main Cleaning area, rather than in a separate "Reclaim RAM!" option in the right softkey. Much better this way, and the reclamation part actually WORKS now, like SKTools' version. 3) The "Look and Feel" menu lets you change the background and add custom highlights. Not necessary, but like the rest of the UI changes, it makes things prettier and a lot easier to look at, especially with VGA. 4) The Registry and other browsers are quite useful - you can actually edit the registry somewhat with MemMaid 2.0, as well as export and import portions of it. 5) The System Tweaks section is a lot more organized and useful this time - being able to edit things like the Opera Download Directory, cache size, and other things is handy, and easier than doing edits from the Opera.ini file with NotePad. Haven't tried adjusting the SD/MMC transfer size yet though I remember how to do it in the registry, and I haven't edited that on this system yet as it didn't improve file throughput that much. 6) The Services/Startup area hasn't changed one whit, unlike all of the other sections. It's prettier, but functionally identical. 7) The new Storage Usage option, which replaced the previous version, seems to take forever to run. The one in 1.0 was done in about 20 seconds; this one's been going a minute and it's still searching. The Cab installer option's interesting if you're trying to organize any CAB files that might be on your PPC, but since I keep all of mine on the same folder in the same card, it's less necessary for me as a way to locate files than it is to figure out how much space I've used up. The same cannot be said about the Card Tools; the latter has options to reformat a card, scan it, and tweak thinks like adding "Ignore My Docs" and other settings. 8) The CPU usage view is VERY useful, and a feature missing from SKTools, which is the main rival for this program as far as I'm concerned. Separating "Running Programs" from "Running Tasks" was also very useful for cutting through the clutter, providing a desktop-like interface for managing active tasks. Overall, I'm quite happy with the improvements; it's bulked up into a tool suite like SKTools, but with a far more user-friendly interface; the SKKV software people have made great strides in organizing SKTools and making sure it had explanations for every feature used, but DinarSoft's MemMaid 2.0 is far ahead of them in terms of ease of use, and has one extra benefit in the CPU Usage viewer. However, they're missing in-program access to the Help files, which could be problematic if you're using the Scan or some of the other features in the program which can potentially screw-up your install. The ability, on first start, to go into "Basic" mode rather than "Advanced" mode helps mitigate this - it moves MemMaid into a more 1.x like state, which keeps it from being able to trash a program install or a storage card, at the expense of power and customizability.

Thanks for the heads up. One of the original reasons I bought MemMaid was the Reclaim RAM feature. Unfortunately it never really worked. Glad to see that you report it works in the new version, but its a shame to have to fork over more $ to get feature that was advertised to be in the last version.