1). Start any application, say Word.
Open some large documents. 2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open
Windows Task Manager and click
Processes tab and sort the list in
descending order on Mem Usage. You
will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be
somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory. 3). Now switch to Word and simply
minimize it. (Don't use the Minimize All
Windows option of the task bar). 4). Now go back to the Windows Task
Manager and see where WINWORD.EXE
is listed. Most probably you will not find
it at the top. You will typically have to
scroll to the bottom of the list to find
Word. Now check out the amount of RAM it is using. Surprised? The memory
utilization has reduced by a huge
amount. 5). Minimize each application that you
are currently not working on by
clicking on the Minimize button & you
can increase the amount of available
RAM by a substantial margin.
Depending upon the number and type of applications you use together, the
difference can be as much as 50
percent of extra RAM. In any multitasking system, minimizing
an application means that it won't be
utilized by the user right now.
Therefore, the OS automatically makes
the application use virtual memory &
keeps bare minimum amounts of the code in physical RAM

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