Ahhhhh. That's why the new Task Manager is redesigned. To Plumb the mess of Dave Plummer. 💀

It's actually sad that he scammed people. He looked trustworthy. I've changed my mind.

Edit: borgir.
Edit 2: Riccroll.

This was not at all secret, and Task Manager still has a lot of his code.

the task manager is not rewritten<br>only the GUI was changed

the task manager is not rewritten
only the GUI was changed

@t0biascze644  Hence why all the tricks that Dave discusses still work even on Windows 11.

@@t0biascze644The gui in a lot of other apps were changed too. Apps they haven’t usually changed in windows releases beforehand, so that’s nice

Did task manager have some kinda backdoor or something? Lmao

Curious - can you post a link to your claimed Dave Plummer mess? Because you seem to suffer extreme confirmation bias.

Just as this video where Enderman thinks TCP/IP isn't a protocol - failing to understand the difference between a protocol and how that protocol is implemented [the network stack - named after the 7 levels of the OSI model]

And thinks there is no concept like RAM fragmentation - so RAM defragmentation must be a scam. A scam existing in multiple OS and memory heap implementations, and part of computer science courses.

And fails to realize that with modems and sometimes well over a second of ping times, you can get big improvements by tweaking your stack for latency or raw transfer rate. And just because the settings is in the registry, then a tool to edit them must be a scam.

If this was a good video, then it would focus on the relevant parts. Advertising popups etc. But there was too much snickering about actually working tools. All because Enderman applied 2024 years Windows knowledge to Win95/Win98 - a big no-no. While failing to report in a neutral way - another big no-no.


4:40 "fragmentation" is applicable to RAM as well, is the issue when applications constantly allocate and deallocate different chucks of memory (especially when in the past structures like lists were recommended to store data) and depending on sizes "holes" were formed in RAM than can't be allocated, obviously not much of an issue now with tens of GB of RAM but in the past with worse OS allocators it was kind of an issue. With that said the actual benefit of such "RAM defragmenters" was highly questionable as it would require kernel level access and application locking to reorganize chunks in memory (if comparing to disk defrag) while in practice they were very fast which was impossible given the problem they try to solve.


Jesus Christ, he was an inspiration for me, me being autistic... <b>**GODDAMMIT!**</b>

Jesus Christ, he was an inspiration for me, me being autistic... ***GODDAMMIT!***

@@archae108 don’t take the lords name in vain.

people do bad things. doesn’t negate the rest of his work. bet a fair few software devs have some history of malicious activity. don’t imitate, but not worth holding grudges

you have the right to belive in religion but you also have the right to not belive in God

@@SpiceFoxare you a follower of the antichrist i assume?

@@SpiceFox it’s about being respectful to other people’s religions homeboy.  Go back to r/atheism if you respond back to people like this.

@@WaltuhBlackjr brother exasperated or shocked invocation of the name of Christ is a colloquialism now. It’s not classy but it’s not worth getting upset about it. Let it bother you and you’ll be upset all the time


Ah man, I really looked up to him as an Autistic person in tech. Thank you for going to in depth, I appreciate the level of detail you go into in every video and thank you for sharing the original sources!


Dave's the kind of guy that can give some decent insight on how things are made behind the curtain.

HOWEVER! He's also the type of guy that you should take all his words with a grain of salt, because he exaggerates a ton in his videos just to feel some sort of sympathy for him. He didn't code Windows, he only coded a few apps in Windows. This adware company just kinda proves how good he is at misguiding people. Way better than Tommy "I worked with Shigeru" Tallarico at the very least.

This is why having multiple witnesses, and official proof is necessary to prove a point. Anyone can just say random stuff on the internet.

Dave's the kind of guy that can give some decent insight on how things are made behind the curtain.

*HOWEVER!* He's also the type of guy that you should take all his words with a grain of salt, because he exaggerates a ton in his videos just to feel some sort of sympathy for him. He didn't code Windows, he only coded a few apps in Windows. This adware company just kinda proves how good he is at misguiding people. Way better than Tommy "I worked with Shigeru" Tallarico at the very least.

This is why having multiple witnesses, and official proof is necessary to prove a point. Anyone can just say random stuff on the internet.

Wait he didn't code windows!? I see. All the time I thought he did. Wait, I didn't, because no one ever said he did, so why are you implying the opposite? Of course he only worked on couple parts here and there, as did every one of the hundreds of MS coders.

@@YS_Production
Well the way he keeps boasting about coding the format menu, the task manager, the zip functionality, the freaking pinball game when in reality there was way more people involved that he almost never mentions (especially the Pinball game, who's creator got shafted by MS).

It wouldn't surprise me if he started boasting about creating Windows as a whole one day.

@@thepuzzlemaster64 idk, it never crossed my mind that he made a huge part of the OS. Naturally it was a group endeavour. Also I don't remember him saying he coded the pinball game, but saying he was working on a port of it. Perhaps people need to listen more carefully.


Thanks for the video mate, good job.  I don't have a problem with the shareware model, but it has to be clear up-front before  you download what the limitations are, and the cost of the full product.  They were clearly using scare tactics and misleading information to trick people into buying their crap.

That adware that installed along with CPURocket sounds like a browser toolbar add-on.  I'm glad those days are behind us.

If he had just owned his poor choices and been transparent about the whole thing, I'd be fine considering him a reformed man.  But he ducks and weaves, playing it down, trying to bury the past.

I wasn't his biggest fan to begin with.  His constant reminders that he is an ex-Microsoft engineer, and mentioning what he worked on at Microsoft whenever he could shoehorn it in was annoying to me.  Reminds me of techlead, and we now know that he is a scammer too.

Thanks for laying out the information for us to easily parse.

but techlead is worse as he did it jn the modern day while Dave is not doing it the modern day so...


That was the shareware era, Dave definitely wasn't the only guy making bullshit programs like that. Every second 'utility' program you ran into in those days was generally useless 'buy-me' junk. Not saying that he wasn't guilty for his actions, but he did get reprimanded for them and had to pay his dues.

I really hope this isn't enough for people to just write him off, it's realistically a minimal controversy in contrast to all the other crazy shit other Youtubers are getting nailed for which actually does warrant re-evaluating their merit altogether. This issue is almost 20 years old; is there some anticipation for Dave to profusely apologize and beg for forgiveness? I'd have done the same thing and not talked about it if I were in his shoes. I know I don't introduce myself by saying "Hi, I'm me, just so you know about 20 years ago I did something stupid that I want to tell you about."

Then why does he refuse to talk about it? It's not like he has some legal gag which forbids him from mentioning it. Constantly dodging it only aggravates the issue further. The evidence is there.

It blew up on Twitter and he intentionally avoided responding to it. If he had been cool about it and owned up to it instead of hoping for the dust to settle, I wouldn't even bother making this video. Check out the quote tree — my Twitter investigation in the description.

We should not make criminals into public figures and celebrities. Fake security software isn't the only problem with Plummer; his videos are full of inaccuracies and lies.


Memory is allocated in blocks. If you have a lot of little blocks that can be coalesced then you remove the overhead of memory management and pointer look ups. I suspect when membory was more limited back then Memturbo would have been beneficial.


bruh this comment section just shows how many people really know how computer works, enderman you shouldn't throw out this video just because of daves little sheeps defending the fact that before he became an old fart he was targeting vulnerable people that didnt know shit about computers to extract as much money as possible in predatory ways. Did microsoft not pay him enough or was it just all greed? You should definetly do some deeper digging and make another deeper and more fact checked video about that because dave seems like he really doesnt want his viewers to know about it by deleting every comment he sees about it and brushing it off on social media, if it were not for you i and many more would not know his dodgy past


Something was always weird about that dude

yup. I think of him as "That guy with the horrid youtube ponder-face thumbnails."

I know right. I felt it from the start with his expressions, and how he always felt a little "too calm".

His tall tales didn't help matters either.

Well the first one was him constantly bringing up his autism for me, just felt like grifting. the other one was the fact that he seemed to never be critical of Microsoft for anything, if I had to guess he still holds shares lol

@@mallninja9805Thank you so much I thought I was the only one

@@thepuzzlemaster64 Could it <i>actually be</i> autism? I watched an interview of him on another channel, and he wasn't as expressive as he is in most of his videos. Maybe that's why he feels "a little too calm".

@@thepuzzlemaster64 Could it _actually be_ autism? I watched an interview of him on another channel, and he wasn't as expressive as he is in most of his videos. Maybe that's why he feels "a little too calm".


I got fooled ok.
But in my defense, I am just a junior software engineering student who doesn't know much about this world 😓
I trusted this guy..


Memory fragmentation is largely solved by a 64 bit address space at this point. But it really could be a problem on 32 bit systems.
It wasn't about the speed of accessing memory. It was about the speed of executing malloc.
It also could cause problems like programs eventually crashing due to spurious "out of memory" errors, if they were designed in such a way that they called malloc and free a lot and fragmented their address space. Programs that allocated a large block and then divvied it up themselves wouldn't run into that problem at the OS level, but the likeliness of that sort of manual memory management really depended on who was writing the program, and how much they understood their computer and OS.
Address virtualization may have helped with this to some extent - I'm not 100% sure of the details of how much that could help (if "sequential" pages in program address space could be allocated at random spots in physical memory). But either way, that didn't entirely solve the problem for long running programs that did a lot of random-ish small allocations/deallocations. I believe the program's virtual address space was still something that had to be chopped up and have sufficient sequential blocks in order for malloc to succeed. 32 bit addressing is still only 4gb, and that's not a lot of room to work in.
Whether such "RAM defragmentor" programs actually did anything about this problem is a different question, though. I agree that it seems pretty unlikely.


Memory fragmentation is actually a thing.  Not sure about the utility, but if you code a custom allocator or having a memory management implementation, things you consider in the design is to avoid memory fragmentation.  This is generally important for devices that have memory restrictions.


I don't think he's really a bad person as people do mistakes and that was 20 years ago but the fact he doesn't want to admit it, is kinda pathetic.

I’d be willing to forgive him if he comes out and talks about it, considering how long ago it was.

He earned a lot of money, don't know if actually needed them for the lawsuits? I do understand he doesn't want to talk about his past, we all make mistakes, but I don't know if he sees it as a mistake.


I've used many of these "registry cleaners" before. At best they don't do anything and at worst they break software that rely on dummy keys.


still a better route than most millionaires nowadays...

This was back in 2006, who knows what other scams he’s done since then he hasn’t been caught doing.

@@Barnacules He's been pushing his autism books. I can't help but wonder whether he's actually autistic. Maybe it's rude to doubt though.

One day, you're throwing back pink lemonade on diddys yacht in San tropez...


I like how the distorted startup sound in VM is adding some vibe to this scam software presentation :D


to be fair those scams are a child play by today standards

Right?  I've watched the entire video and I don't see anything negative other than being forced to click a second button after you tried to restart. Where's the crime?

This was back in the XP days... Where you would click a registry cleaner and it would completely eff your system.  Fill it with pop-ups and crap..

Honestly this just seems like I'm done doing the hard grind and I want to write some code that people might buy...


we getting a false copyright strike with this one 🔥🔥🔥


Oh man, just recently I was thinking surely something was off with thus guy, nothing is ever just nice on YouTube


He saw this. He's cowardly wiping out the comments about this under his videos and still doesn't want to respond. I guess the only way to get his attention is to have the big YouTubers cover this.

@@Endermanch wow, salty move from Dave ngl


Your video was very good, even though you usually make other kinds of videos. Keep it up!


Man, I really liked his content. It's really sad to see what kind of person he actually is.


"tcp isn't a protocol" what do you think the p stands for

tcp is a protocol and ip is a protocol. tcp/ip is a protocol stack.

I never said that. TCP is a protocol. TCP/IP is not, it's a protocol stack.


Why claim RAM fragmentation isn't an issue? That's like saying hundreds of thousands of senior developers are incompetent.

First off - memory fragmentation is relevant for dynamic memory allocation, where you need a contiguous block of RAM of x bytes. There are much more than x bytes free - but in many holes that each is smaller than x bytes. So no free block can be used - without the heap first being defragmented.

This is why all devices with limited RAM should be very, very careful about use if dynamic memory. In many environments, this means the only allowed place to allocate is at startup. And then keep the allocations until the device is restarted.

Next thing - RAM may mean "Random Access Memory". But it's many, many, many years since RAM was "constant access time memory". Which is why compilers and delevopers needs to optimize locations of data, and also the size of data structures. The RAM itself has burst transfer behaviour where it takes extra time for access to the first byte. Then the memory can have a decent transfer rate for up to a page of data. Then we have the issues with layer0, layer1, layer2 and maybe layer3 cache. Having the data tightly grouped can make it fit in the same cache line - and the read from RAM fills a full cache line at a time.

Next thing is that dynamically allocated memory needs a data structure to map the allocated blocks. That structure complexity adds non-constant search times.

Then we have paged and non-paged memory. Today, all programs gets memory blocks in forms of pages. Actual page size depending on processor. And the processor may support a hierarchy of two and three different size pages, so it might use 4 kB, 2 MB and 1 GB pages. Pages means a program can see a contiguous block of virtual memory, that is represented by a multiple non-contiguous blocks of physical memory pages. But data structures are used for these mappings. So you habe page tables. And you may have TLB - Translation Lookaside Buffer - that caches a linited number of paging mappings.

But move back to older Windows versions, and not everything was distinct virtual memory. You got memory handles. A memory handle represented a pointer to a pointer to RAM. Why two levels of indirection? Because the OS could then defragment the physical memory, and modify the second level pointer. Interesting - RAM not needing defragmentation and the OS still had a specific concept with dual-indirection access just to be able to defragment. Silly OS developers...

Bottom line: memory defragmentation is needed in some situations. More so 20 years ago than now.

Same with download managers that optimized TCP/IP parameters. You want different options if you want many MB/s or if you want shortest lag. So Asus and other motherboard vendors have multiple times shipped applications explicitly optimizing for gaming performance.

In short - forcing popup ads etc is bad. Very, very bad. But don't critique technical optimizations without having the technical know-how to actually debate their functionality. What is done, and if it matters or not. Especially since our needs now are different from 20 years ago, making it invalid to apply todays expectations on the logic.

I will debate the functionality because his software doesn't even defragment the RAM. It's not a job of a utility, it's a job of the kernel. All his software does I think is push memory to swap and free it back again, and regarding NetTurbo, modifying 5 registry keys shouldn't be paid for.


I had a feeling that something was off with that guy anyways


Alrighty, here's my pov on this: honestly, he was younger, this was the past, and the past can't be changed. I know that what he did was a bit scammy, but I feel like we should forgive him for it. Unless he is secretly doing it under another name, I still see him as a good person. I feel like targeting him for the past is just not what to do. Ok the wording in the book seems weird, but he just wants to forget about it, and I get it, we all screw up and want move on. Please, if you're reading this, don't harass him. That's not cool of you to harass people because of their past. But that is my pov

No hard feelings! Not trying to be a dick about it, but the audience should know. I think he was about 40 years young back when that incident occurred.

@@Endermanch I get it. I just feel you were at bit too much by the end of the video. I just really hope nobody goes after him, or you.

@@Endermanch If this is your "no hard feelings", I don't wanna know what your "hard feelings" are.

фан бой дэйва детектед

"мовет мы пвостим его за то вто он скамил людей на нифиговую такую кругленькую сумму. он ве был таким молодым и глупеньким"

чел, он даже на своих видео пытается насрать в уши людям, то что он там всю систему целиком сделал. смотрите какой я ретардед ретайред инженер супер пупер крутой.

фан бой дэйва детектед
"мовет мы пвостим его за то вто он скамил людей на нифиговую такую кругленькую сумму. он ве был таким молодым и глупеньким"
чел, он даже на своих видео пытается насрать в уши людям, то что он там всю систему целиком сделал. смотрите какой я -ретардед- ретайред инженер супер пупер крутой.


I appreciate what this video's going for, but I think it would've come out a lot better if it was more structured and researched, instead of just bringing up background at random points in the video and not doing much to back it up other than "you can go and visit them yourself I won't be going through it."

What comes to mind is having two distinct parts. Have the first half lay out the groundwork and summarize your findings so that people don't have to do a bunch of research to verify your claims, even though they just watched a half-hour video. An example that comes to mind is that you barely mention much with regard to the court documents, you just scroll through them a bit and seemingly think that's enough. At least read them fully and try to support your claims with them, this is persuasive writing 101!

Then, dedicating the second half to showing off the software distributed by him to demonstrate what it did, why it was bad, and hammer your point home. You already did that (though that hosts file seemingly caught you off-guard - test your stuff and make sure your claims hold water before you try and demo it...) but some more research and testing before you made the video would've helped a lot.

You mentioned in the beginning that you heard of this whole thing yesterday, and made the video in that time-frame - I think it really shows. If you wanna make a persuasive video like this again, actually try and focus hard on the persuasive part, instead of just flippantly showing evidence you don't go into detail on and winging demonstrations assuming it'll prove your claim instead of taking away from it.

I could see where he was coming from and it probably makes it a bit more digestible that it was just kinda overview, then switching back and forth.  But yeah some people probably do better with the more linear approach, but he provides sources for people who want the nitty gritty, so it probably balances out.

this would have worked way better as a video essay 13 min or so. He's a well known tech youtuber, so a non 38 min video is sure to get attention.

i appreciate what this comments going for but split it up into paragraphs PLEASE

Thank you guys for the constructive feedback! If I ever make a documentary again, I'll make sure to structure it better. My initial priority was to review the scam in action, much more than talk about Dave himself, but then I read his book and the misleading coverage in there changed my mind midway through. Hence the erratic structure of this video. I initially discovered the information the night before, so that video was ~2 days in production total, no hurry.


I trust his technical knowledge but wow I didn't know this. Why is everyone cool secretly a little evil?


i always hated that guy. gave me another reason.


Defragmenting RAM makes sense if you have millions of tiny blocks spread evenly, preventing large blocks from getting inserted in between the gaps. It is not going to make RAM any faster though

except the RAM gets flushed every time you boot, or restart your device.

It just clears all data that was stored in the RAM, so im not sure what's there to defrag.

And even if you defrag RAM, it's not going to do much, unlike HDD's. For HDD's, defraging is necessary to do every once in a while, because it optimizes read/write speeds, and even the system can do it automatically for you.

And unlike RAM, HDD doesn't get flushed every time you restart/boot the device.

“Defragmenting RAM” lmaoo. I mean seems like a cool idea in concept but like other commenter said, not practical in the slightest

SLAB and SLOB allocators makes sure stuff is continues.


7:00 His license plate is 116, 911 (156th prime) rotated 180 degrees.  11x6=66.
"Dave W Plummer" = 153 ordinal.  The 116th composite number.  So he's, probably, into gematria and numerology.

@@Mario583a People that are into gematria and numerology believe specific numbers have special properties or powers and try to tie almost everything they do to these numbers or numeric properties of numbers, like a number being prime, for example.

@@BrunodeSouzaLino Both composites and primes are relevant.  156 for example refers to the eclipse cycle.  A solar eclipse will occur somewhere on Earth every 1, 5, or 6 synodic months.  The Hebrew word for eclipse = 156.  Another good example is 37 and 73.  37 is the 12th prime and 3rd star number.  73 is the 21st prime and 4th star number.  So while incrementing by 1 star, you move through two numbers that are mirrored both in themselves and their corresponding primes.

Damn, that's an unexpected perspective! Could be a coincidence, though... Only he can confirm that

@@BrunodeSouzaLino Yeah I know. I was making a funny joke.

@@Endermanch I first noticed it in some of his video titles and lengths.  His Microsoft employee number (32005), drop the 0s, is 325 which is the 25th triangular number.  25 is the 5th square, 5 when interpreted generously refers to spirit over matter (ie the top of the star, bottom being the four elements), but in general simply means sensory reality.  The 5 primary senses.  More directly however, his name is "David".  The six pointed star is often called the "Star of David", though really it's simply a hexagram, or two triangles put together (numbers around him are often triangular numbers).  So if you write out "thirty two double o five" it gives 3737 in Agrippa's key, 37 is the 12th prime and 3rd star number.  So two 3s, 33.  His full name as written on the card he shows "David Plummer" = 138, 1 off (rule of colel) from 137, the 33rd prime.

Either way, he's highly intra-aligned numerically.  The main point being while I do think he's aware of it, there's also an organic layer where this stuff just happens (and is aligned well beyond statistical chance).  It's also the case that if you hold a number in mind then just start writing, check your own output, you'll find it correlates closely with that number.  The reason for this is probably, at least in part, that the same brain regions (namely the cerebellum) controls fine motor output of the fingers and speech, memory, mathematical calculations, language, and grammar + syntax + a bit of symbolic processing.  The same area does all of this.  Everyone is taught the same alphabetical order and songs in childhood, and the unconscious mind responds to rhythm and is constantly counting everything, keeping track of time, and so on.  So often times your unconscious mind is producing output organized around whatever else is in mind and you aren't even aware of it.

In his case though I do see a bit of number magic going on.  Interesting stuff to see either way.

@@Endermanch It deleted my in depth reply, as usual.

@Endermanch  I first noticed it in some of his video titles and lengths.  His Microsoft employee number (32005), drop the 0s, is 325 which is the 25th triangular number.  25 is the 5th square, 5 when interpreted generously refers to spirit over matter (ie the top of the star, bottom being the four elements), but in general simply means sensory reality.  The 5 primary senses.  More directly however, his name is "David".  The 111111 pointed star is often called the [stop deleting my comments youtube], though really it's simply a hexagram, or two triangles put together (numbers around him are often triangular numbers).  So if you write out "thirty two zero zero five" it gives 3737 in Agrippa's key, 37 is the 12th prime and 3rd star number.  So two 3s, 33.  His full name as written on the card he shows "David Plummer" = 138, 1 off (rule of colel) from 137, the 33rd prime.

Either way, he's highly intra-aligned numerically.  The main point being while I do think he's aware of it, there's also an organic layer where this stuff just happens (and is aligned well beyond statistical chance).  It's also the case that if you hold a number in mind then just start writing, check your own output, you'll find it correlates closely with that number.  The reason for this is probably, at least in part, that the same brain regions (namely the cerebellum) controls fine motor output of the fingers and speech, memory, mathematical calculations, language, and grammar + syntax + a bit of symbolic processing.  The same area does all of this.  Everyone is taught the same alphabetical order and songs in childhood, and the unconscious mind responds to rhythm and is constantly counting everything, keeping track of time, and so on.  So often times your unconscious mind is producing output organized around whatever else is in mind and you aren't even aware of it.

In his case though I do see a bit of number magic going on.


Wow, this is such a shame. All I can say is, after the AI recall fiasco, Ive permenantly moved to Linux on my personal computer


back up the video before its too late guys


4:23 In his defense, DRAM does have a latency penalty when it comes to random access, which is why cache exists. So, I guess, maybe at the best if it does something it could help out with latency.

But another technique that is verified as legit is spreading the RAM usage between various RAM banks in a precise way.

It doesn't do anything like that.

It simply forces existing applications into swap by allocating and dirtying, by all reason.

It can have a pleasant effect that next application you load, the loads aren't going to cause disk contention against writes. The flip side is that when swap back needs to happen, it will be slower and more vigorous, since the amount of swapped out data is generally beyond LRU tracking. So the application could be useful if you know the trade-offs, it shouldn't be sold on misleading claims.

DRAM has penalties when you switch the read pattern between pages and between lines, but all pages are equal to each other. System gives applications memory in pages. Applications suffer "heap fragmentation", which is really bad, but it's internal to their architecture and not something you can influence externally. The claim of the software is false.

RAM banks on PC simply arrange themselves into a wider bus if built optimally, it's even beneath the level of the operating system. Since CPU cache is populated and evicted linewise (32 bytes in that era, 64 a little later), all reads and writes will actually complete faster.


Glad I'm seeing other people down here who also got bad vibes from Dave. I've given his videos several shots over the years and something would always eventually "ping my spidey senses," as another user put it. The dude throws up red flags for all sorts of ugly personality traits.


Devil's advocate (memturbo): Defragmenting RAM is actually not complete nonsense when you consider the MMU and TLB (translation lookaside buffer).

Continuous physical addresses allow the OS to shrink the size of the TLB by increasing page size, thus reducing the amount of times the hardware needs to trigger a page fault to ask the operating system what physical address corresponds to which virtual address (The TLB is a cache for that exact question). It's essentially what linux's transparent huge pages does.

That said, I am inclined to doubt memturbo actually did this. I'm also curious if this would've had a measurable effect in hardware that old. I'd expect this to only really surface with multiple GB of RAM given the default 4KB page size of most architectures.

Devil's advocate (memturbo): Defragmenting RAM is actually not complete nonsense when you consider the MMU and TLB (translation lookaside buffer).

Continuous *physical* addresses allow the OS to shrink the size of the TLB by increasing page size, thus reducing the amount of times the hardware needs to trigger a page fault to ask the operating system what physical address corresponds to which virtual address (The TLB is a cache for that exact question). It's essentially what linux's transparent huge pages does.

That said, I am inclined to doubt memturbo actually did this. I'm also curious if this would've had a measurable effect in hardware that old. I'd expect this to only really surface with multiple GB of RAM given the default 4KB page size of most architectures.

But will OS allow such recklessness? I am pretty sure OS doesnt allow programs to mess with all memory in the system.

@@Ne-vc5pm If you're running in kernel space (which you'd have to be to even start thinking of this kind of stuff) you can do whatever you want, period. In theory at least.

In practice, you would need a deep understanding of the NT kernel's memory management code. System instability would also be a given.

Not to mention the skill required to pull this off. For someone who mainly seems to have worked on UI stuff? No. Just no.

Note: Running in kernel space doesn't mean just admin rights. It means a custom driver, which microsoft would probably have to sign.

@@gtsiam yeah not sure if even a custom driver can pull this off without bsoding the system

@@gtsiam Would definitely have to sign according Dave Plummer's own video on CrowdStrike.

Still doesn’t explain all the upgrade tricks and nagging. That is still scammy. Along with the poor lamen explanation. But the other software was far more scammy as time went on.

@@Ne-vc5pm I was going to agree, but after a bit of digging, I'm not so sure.

Given that things like SoftRAM 95 are possible, I would not be surprised if this is also possible. Check out Raymond Chen's post on the old new thing if you're interested. i'd link it, but then I'd get shadow banned.

@@Barnacules Oh yes, 100%. I'm not arguing memturbo was legit. Just an interesting technical point about MMUs.

In fact I doubt the technique I mentioned in my comment would have a measurable impact on older hardware. This only really comes into play when dealing with lots and lots of 4KB pages with multiple GB of RAM.

@@gtsiam i have read this article, but i think there is difference between what does softram and this ram defragmentation tool. Softram compressed only some part of the memory so it didnt touch kernel and driver memory. But doesnt defragmentating ram basically means that you need to rearrange whole memory, including kernel and driver memory?

Please the TLB size on a computer with 128MB RAM, seriously? Page size is really hardcoded deep as well.

Besides what you suggest is not defragmentation but rather fragmentation avoidance. Defragmentation still doesn't make sense.

@@SianaGearz 1. TLB size: Kindly read the entire comment you're replying to.<br>2. Defragmentation avoidance: Tomato tomato. Plus memory is not only allocated. It's also freed.

@@SianaGearz 1. TLB size: Kindly read the entire comment you're replying to.
2. Defragmentation avoidance: Tomato tomato. Plus memory is not only allocated. It's also freed.


I became distrustful of him by seeing his unhinged takes on twitter such as "linux includes secret blob from Linus", defending elon musket, defending unlawful actions of cops etc etc. Now this video puts the final nail in the coffin.

Because he has different political views to you? Lmao


You shouldn't have included pictures of his family like that. At least censored his son's face. I agree that he needs to speak out about this, but you aren't making yourself look good by doing that. I know those pictures are probably publicly accessible if you know where to look, but it just doesn't look good on you to use them.

You know, fair. I don't really make strong allegations against him, and I don't mention his familial background. That's just what happened in the past and he's no longer scamming people (hopefully). He posted that on Twitter. It didn't feel right to alter the image, it would feel SCP-like or as if he's a serious criminal. He's not a dangerous criminal! That's my thought process here.


Ironic, this video appeared as a recommendation right after one of Dave's videos. I'm not subscribed to him, something seemed off by his rhetoric, I couldn't really point out. Thank you for your research!


Oh boy, I feel like it will escalate

Kinda loved the guy's energy but yeah...


😂😂😂Louis Rossman needs to talk about this lmao


He seemed pretty respectable at first, it's a shame to find out about that


Thanks for the video. I wasn't aware he owned or operated these companies, so I learned something new. Totally agree these were sus companies with borderline sus software. That said, on the technical side (I'm 47 and been a sysadmin for almost 30 years), I did want to point out a couple things that I think were overlooked:
1. The time period when all of this was going on. People often overlook what the state of Windows was at that time. Do not think the kernel, registry, or userland programs native to Windows were "flawless". I'll cover more below.
2. Memory fragmentation: you are right that it's not something a consumer needs to worry about in most cases, especially given 2000 and XP at the time, and that the kernel tries to do its best to alleviate non-linear allocations. I also agree that the purpose of the program gives a placebo effect.  But please understand memory fragmentation is a real problem that does happen and is particularly impacting if you have a large number of long-running processes with high memory utilisation.  The kernel's VM (virtual memory, not virtual machine!) has memory split into pages (chunks), and quite often you need something loaded into a linear congruent piece of memory.  When you consider the allocations vary in size and in quantity, eventually over time you do end up with data spread across non-congruent pages -- and there is a performance hit for that (and can be quite bad if available/free memory is limited). Not trying to defend Dave here, just educating you about the technology.
3. Registry cleaners: these have been debated since they were invented. Yes they actually can serve a useful purpose (to remove entries that cross-reference program paths no longer in place), but as you said many of them are questionable. However: the analyser you used shows numerous registry entries that, believe it or not, come broken right out of the box on a fresh OS install and ARE NOT the cleaner's fault. 2K/XP is somewhat notorious for this. Yes, Microsoft left broken/silly stuff in place on a fresh 2000/XP install. You can verify this using other cleaners like CCleaner (for XP you'll need an older version). I agree the inserts-itself-into-startup-and-shutdown and "OH NO!!!" type of warning dialogs are scummy, but some of those scan results you saw are not the fault of the cleaner. I would therefore not call this "a rogue" (whatever that means; I've never heard anyone use this term to describe software like this, we just call it crapware). The registry today (Win10/11) is so bloated and ridiculous that it's a lost cause to try and fix all the mistakes anyway.


Someone get Mutahar on the phone. This is pretty big.


Another reason for why it makes no sense in defraging RAM, as dave wants you to think otherwise:

BECAUSE THE RAM FLUSHES ITSELF EVERY TIME YOU BOOT UP THE MACHINE!

RAM is a TEMPORARY storage unit, that flushes itself every time you restart or the next time you boot up the machine.

It'd make sense if it was a HDD, since HDD's require defragmentation every once in a while, and even then, the computer can automatically do it for you, and unlike RAMs, HDD's do NOT flush themselves after every restart, because they are a PERMANENT storage unit. This is why the system saves stuff on the HDD, not the RAM.

However, RAM is needed to speed up your PC, obviously.

He should've knew better, being a "former MS employee", but i guess he was only there, just so he could have that title, and then move on with his scams, which we can now see.

And instead of taking that L like a man, he tries to sweep it under the rug, and pretend it's all fine.

Is it that hard to say "yes i scammed people in the past, and im guilty of that, but i will try to be a better person onwards"?

Except RAM fragmenting is actually a thing with low amounts of memory and poor allocation. However it probably didn’t do crap for most PCs.

@@charlie_nolan  Yes i have observed memory fragmentation a lot, but it can only happen at application level, so some other application or the system can't really do anything about it. You can inject a better implementation of malloc into an application, that helps, that's why google's tcmalloc exists and it has the capability foreseen to force inject it into any application, when the dll is loaded it will set up its own detours. Once fragmentation has happened, nothing can be done about it other than killing the application. The malloc replacement must be hooked in before an application is running.

Nowadays we don't care, but at the tail end of 32-bit era, it was a massive problem.

It's actually a key problem in most garbage collected environments where the deallocation happens in random order and not in reverse order from allocation. Javascript engines are prone to generate insane fragmentation, both internal to the engine, and secondary in the browser DOM manipulation.

I have maintained an application which was fundamentally very prone to fragmentation for similar reasons, since it was necessary to load and unload thousands of differently sized assets per minute in random order, which it would obtain via internet and which were disk cached as well.

I have also observed fragmentation in the buffer management of graphics drivers.

Of course the claim of the RAM cleaner is completely false, it does nothing for fragmentation. By adorning the program with false claims which seem just barely plausible enough, they could command a much higher price for the application than it was worth.


The little cartoon doing dave's star trek salute fucking kills me lol. I still like dave, obviously this isn't a great look... but think about it. He talks about being a software author but only wants to take credit for hypercache for the Amiga and windows visual zip. Obviously his other work was less mention worthy, or as it seems, somewhat dubious.


Dang that's wild, I've seen a few of his vids and he seemed on the level for the first few, then I started sensing something sus but I mostly dismissed it.


i hope your other reviews show less ignorance of tech than this one does.

any program which uses a heap gets fragmented, and it is perfectly ok to provide a utility to fix it. that is not a scam.

tcp/ip is indeed a protocol, and tuning the parameters is not a scam. how well it work is a matter of measurement.

registry cleaning is required due to how broken the design is for the windows registry. this is also not a scam.
the registry slows down with every entry added, and people adding entries do not provide clean installers. some of this cruft left behind will even prevent you doing a clean reinstall.

having the software being paid for by showing ads is not a scam either.

so far all you have displayed is your own ignorance of how windows works, your dislike for adware, and your dislike of nagware.

the lawsuit seems to be about there being a mismatch between the exact phrasing of some of the blurb, and if the software provides the exact services provided as needed by that phrasing.

if he was a shareware hosting site, it is not his job to audit every piece of software, that is the job of the software writer.

however it is common practice to lodge a merit free lawsuit with the intent to make money by charging a nuisance fee which is cheaper than going to court. then people settle to make them go away. describing this as a few valid issues with a ton of crap claims is not lying.

@@grokitall First of all... Registry Cleaner IS a scam because of it begging you to buy it. Also, on clean installation of Windows, there are not that many Registry keys that go unused. Second, have you not heard of scareware? That entices you to buy it? That is what Registry Cleaner is. And InternetShield. Also, nagware is very annoying. So... Your ignorance is bliss.

Bot.

making people pay for an app that deletes some useless registry keys and telling them it actually does something is a scam

@@Windows2000Professional.s of course you can. you replace the system malloc library with a different shared library at runtime. that is how some of the memory leak detectors like valgrind work.


This feels a lot like a rogueamp1 video from back in the day, to be honest.


Ram defragmentation might actually improve performance because of data and instruction cache; however i think such a performance improvement is more dependent on software and code optimization...


I mean this was 2006, he probably just wants to move on from it at this point.

It’s a bit hard to move on from the fact someone who claims to be a trustworthy expert literally ran a scam operation.


Not the news I'd like to wake up to, but oh well...


I literally met him in person! OMG I had no idea. He literally made a video for me! I know his adress. His email and everything else about him. My cuisen is literally freinds with his son and they go to the same school and live in the same city and they play on the same football team. I also know that he has I believe 2 daughters. Also he said "I hate talking on the phone." I even sent him packages and he returned them. he even gave me an M5StickCPlus. I am in pure shock. This was the only detail I didn't know about him.

No this was in 2023, not during the scam. I didn't give him any money

I Learned about the new company who has the domain, they want you to go to 30897 lilac street, Dallas tx

oh yeah when I pointed out when every picture of his was the same he literally changed one of his video thumbnail pictures so that way that wasn't true anymore

@@Butterscotch_96the new owners of his website want you to go to the text  equivalent of the UTF-8 CODE FOR 33 30 38 39 37 20 6C 69 6C 61 63 20 73 74 72 65 65 74 2C 20 44 61 6C 6C 61 73 20 74 78

If that is true, then please don't dox him.

As other has said, don't ever dox him, he's not horrible enough to deserve it

And enderman himself said in one of the reply thread that this video is just for bringing the light on his past

@@somerandomcapybara  You know what, normally I hack the scammers for a living, but Dave Plummer will be spared


one thing that i'm kinda curious is what happends if you manualy "fix" the issues that registry cleaner claims is bad.    will more pop up ?   they could be not even real / implented by the program


The video exaggerates badly imho.  The scamware situation involving Dave Plummer and State of Washington was reported locally when it was happening and it is easy to reference the case online. It was a very small scam by any standards, it made boring news then and now.  The video reports it like it is some sort of big secret, when it obviously was not. From what I can tell based on a couple 'searches'.... the man is worth between $1 and 5 million, which is comfortable but certainly not "rich" by today's standards.

If he's not rich by today's standards, then he's either "read-baiting" those interested in his book Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire, published late 2021, or referring to the total amount he had earned up to that date, which also seems misleading for me.

I don't know did you scam thousands of people, is that normal, does everyone just do that? The question here is not of scale, it's of behaviour that was knowingly very unethical.


I actually used to watch that guy thinking he was legit, I guess that proves you can't trust anyone online.


Nowadays even defragmenting is useless since most machines have SSDs instead of plate drives (aside from edge cases).

Yeah, for the consumer market. But for server applications defrag utilities are still useful because HDDs are still being used in that market. Due to the cheap price-per-storage that HDDs provide. Though it would be cool if HDDs can defrag themselves. Thus eliminating defraging software all together.


Defragmenting RAM is real thing but I don't think the software does anything worthwhile because the kernel allocator works in pages so defragmented RAM means that this paged memory is not aligned anymore. As the kernel returns page even if you don't need whole page and this misalignment leads to defragmentation of the RAM


For the first 5 mins you were too hard on Poor Dave, but for the rest… JESUS DAVE WTF WERE YOU THINKING?!<br>I know everyone has crap they did in the past that they hate they did, but DAMN-

For the first 5 mins you were too hard on Poor Dave, but for the rest… JESUS DAVE WTF WERE YOU THINKING?!
I know everyone has crap they did in the past that they hate they did, but DAMN-

WHY YOU GOTTA BE MY MILKSHAKE DUCK, DAVE? <br>Maybe questionable windows utilities aren’t that bad but he’s put himself into the same bucket as the Indian call centers harassing grandmas to buy gift cards

WHY YOU GOTTA BE MY MILKSHAKE DUCK, DAVE?
Maybe questionable windows utilities aren’t that bad but he’s put himself into the same bucket as the Indian call centers harassing grandmas to buy gift cards


If it's not writing in the hosts file, it must be using firewall rules.

No, it adds wildcards to IE filter lists


Save yourself half an hour and skip to 31 minutes, this video is a massive waste of time.


Is anyone surprised that comments bringing up this topic vanished from the latest video?


4:34 That's not true. Fragmentation of RAM is a real thing. Consider the following situation:
You have two objects that are 32 bits each. You assign memory to them sequentially. Now they are occupying 64 bits. You delete the first object and instead allocate a 24 bit object in its place. now between the 24bit and the 32 bit object you have 8bits of "wasted" space. This is a really complex issue garbage collected languages have to deal with.
This wasted space also affects performance as it increases the amount of cache misses, because the ram is less "dense" and possibly misaligned.
Can his software defragment it? Maybe.

Isn't data in RAM aligned to a certain granulation coefficient anyway? I don't think it's a global problem between the process memory spaces. Within the process, sure. But the utility would have to intrude and make a mess there. I don't see how it would offer a fix for that kind of fragmentation.

@@Endermanchram itself doesnt have fragmentantion, but the heap areana can be fragmented, or at least i think tgta is what theyre saying.

Aprechite your content btw!

@@Endermanchram itself doesnt have fragmentantion, but the heap areana *can* be fragmented, or at least i think tgta is what theyre saying.

Aprechite your content btw!

@@Endermanch
"Isn't data in RAM aligned to a certain granulation coefficient anyway? " Not always. It usually is, but let's say you have a 1000 objects with an uneven size for example 17 bits . You'd waste a lot of space by not allocating them sequentially.
"I don't think it's a global problem between the process memory spaces." Nowadays I don't think it really is, because systems are way smarter about ram. Back in the day when the memory was significantly smaller I believe a skilled programmer could make a program to help *a little*.


Wow the marketing definately sounds like him. He wrote 5line utilities decorated them with fake progressbars and either sold then or bundled then with ads. What a parasite


Youtube search is suppressing this video


Great video.<br>Definitely nice documentary style, keep 'em coming!

Great video.
Definitely nice documentary style, keep 'em coming!


Dawg I don't get how you're going to be pedantic about the softwareonline website not saying "stack" wrt to TCP/IP when you make broad generalizations about memory subsystems that don't really hold leaving out anything like caching or situations like kernel memory where memory can in fact be allocated contiguously and therefore lead to fragmentation in the physical address space. Virtual or Intra-process memory however can easily be fragmented and cause issues which is why we have complex implementations of malloc and such.

Not a Dave defender overall btw he's definitely a hardcore grifter.


So, this all is quite relevant when you consider buying software from him.

Beyond that? How did the lawsuit end? Does it have ANY relevance whatsoever for the content of his youtube videos? Actually, no it does not. Additionally, when someone went through the legal process, payed the penalty for his mistakes, that person should be able to go on with their life. No, that does not mean continue doing what got that person in trouble, but it does mean being able to do legal things, without that past being held against them unless that past has a very very direct relation to what they are doing.

Failing that, ensures someone who gets in legal trouble will have no other choice than continuing with their illegal behavior.

While you have every right to dig up his past, and talk about that, I do not find your stated motivation for doing so to be convincing, nor do I see how this has any relevance whatsoever for his acrivity as a youtuber.

On top of that, do not blindly trust anyone, especially not people you do not actually know well in person. When it comes to someone telling stories on youtube, consider the entertainment value of those videos to you, but don't declare that person to be some kind of God. This will prevent a lot of disappointments.


Aw man! I really like watching his videos…


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Show us proof once you download them all

@@siliconfire well they can post the picture on their community tab of how many Shrek images they have downloaded

@@pokorocks oh didn't think about that

Sorry

you won't, get a 1gb drive and do it on there instead, and ONLY download 100mb images

Your hard drive will never get full unless it's below a GB

I have a script in virtual basic script that I made today that does just this except you can adjust the amount of pictures. Wanna try it?

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Man I remember when your channel only had a little over 100 subscribers


Can I ask you ... what is the point of this? What are you trying to achieve? Did he scam the millions?

6:43 - "Tweaking the registries yourself". Man this is 2001, the internet was slow, people exchanged software on floppy disks and CDs, the internet was a joke at that time.

It is very easy for a kid who did not live in those days to judge the days from the 2024. Go do your own stuff before people start shitting on you.

Exactly. Feels too much like cancel culture. And let's not confuse Adware with Malware.

Up until the 2011-ish the internet was full of small utilities and free-floating binaries created by small companies. And people were very much free thinkers and free spirited! I was a kid back then and I installed a LOT of crap on my family's computer.

We had dozens of programs installed that we rarely ever used. We had all these "Registry cleaners", Program Files cleaners, defrag cleaners, temp file cleaners, app data cleaners, and cleaner cleaners... sometimes those programs would delete something crucial off Windows. We had 3 CD and DVD burners, we had shitty games installed, we had everything under the Sun installed.

The images from 2007 when the author of this video was 6 years old we had so many Internet Explorer toolbars it was not even funny. Malware was everywhere. As if this "Rogue software" that did not do anything wrong was very harmful and toxic. We would do everything to get those old slow computers to move faster, and it did not matter if it was a free trial, one use, or whatever. We downloaded it, we used it. Is it a shitty thing to sell something that has a questionable functionality? Sure. But we are no better nowadays than we were back then. The "rogue software" was the least offending software on the internet.

Like what are we trying to achieve here 20 years later? He was charged with the crime, he paid the damages and the case was closed. People fuck up, people make mistakes, people do stupid things. People get arrested and get judged, pay for their crimes and then we can move on. Yet some kid in Russia is like "mwhahahahaha, muh drama" stirring up shit 20 years later. What good does this bring to anyone?

“He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.”

Very toxic youtuber by the looks of it...

And on top of that, he doesn't owe us any apology. He doesn't owe us shit. He paid the damages, the case is closed.


I guess that owning up to your mistakes, feeling the cringe of your past, and showing remorse, it would show that you have matured as a person. I'll own up to my mistakes, and know to avoid such mistakes for the rest of my life.
...although in my case it was incompetence, not malice.
I think that owning up to it would make less people dunk on him.

As an embedded dev, two types of memory fragmentation are my pain point: userspace virtual memory (MMU) fragmentation means more complex DMA microcode (due to having to jump memory boundaries) and more likely to hit CAS latency with systems on DRAM if virtual memory is really desynchronized with their physical memory mapping. Heap fragmentation is actually a problem on desktop as well), where object allocation could randomly fail at any time if there are lots of small gaps between even remotely big objects on the heap.

As to achieve what CPU Rocket promised in the modern age, in Windows 10 if you feel like an expert, you could tweak the kernel scheduler parameters by creating a new power plan, and using regedit or powercfg to edit those scheduler parameters. "CPU core parking in Windows 10" is what led me down the rabbithole.


Does this video appear to be aimed at clout-chasing? The events mentioned happened 20 years ago, so I'm curious why they are being highlighted now. While I'm not dismissing the negative significance of the topic, I question the relevance of revisiting such old incidents. The creator has interviewed notable Microsoft employees like Dave Cutler and Raymond Chen, who have made remarkable contributions themselves, the fact they agreed to being interviewed by Mr. Plummer indicates to me he is held in at least some regard. Everyone makes mistakes, often driven by personal greed. This particular incident from two decades ago doesn't necessarily reflect someone's entire character but rather a lapse in judgment. The intent of this video seems to be more about seeking attention than providing meaningful insight.

pretty much this.<br>complaining decades later when there isn't really any proof that Dave's still scamming at this very date it's just plain stupid and unnecessary considering how Dave is nowadays

pretty much this.
complaining decades later when there isn't really any proof that Dave's still scamming at this very date it's just plain stupid and unnecessary considering how Dave is nowadays

main thing that hits me is he still profits off of deliberately misleading claims about his successes through his book. his book which he currently sells and markets to those with autism as things he wish he had known, while also hiding the major reason he was successful was because he had scammed people

is this what you should take away? Probably not

@@PANCHO7532 He doesn't need to be scamming today. Mere knowledge that he's capable of doing any morally dubious shit because he did that in the past is enough to deem him untrustworthy basically forever. Especially since he really doesn't want to speak about the topic and when he does, he downplays it.

@@Xxc-iw7yj When is it, then, do you not give second chances to people? What about Dave's situation is different than when you'd give a second chance?

@@phenom957 Second chances are for friends, partners or family members, not some youtubers I don't know and won't ever meet

@@Xxc-iw7yj If you don't have that relationship to him, then what are you doing? Are you doing this as a public good, or are you shaming him, or is it something else?

@@phenom957 Dude, check your parasociality level, because to me it looks off the charts. I stated that the guy can't be trusted, and now you respond is as if I personally attacked you. All I'm saying the guy is sus because of his past and it's good to know that in advance, in case he starts shilling some shit or tries some dubious stuff again. It's not that I hate him, sometimes he makes interesting videos I would watch. He just can't be trusted as a person with integrity as far as I'm concerned. That's it.

@@Xxc-iw7yj I am just asking some questions to understand your position. I am looking for the essence of what you're saying.

@@Xxc-iw7yj second chances are for everyone regardless of what the person is for you, having caution and awareness of a person is a must obviously, but going to the point of harassing said person reminding previous mistakes it's just plain wrong and retarded.
or else, we wouldn't be allowing irl reformed criminals and ex-convicts the opportunity of re-join society.
This whole video could've been just a simple and small PSA but instead it's a "lol EXPOSED LOOK WHAT HE DID I CAN'T BELIEVE HE WAS LIKE THIS FRFR NO CAP"
I could even go to the length of saying that Enderman is indeed overreacting the whole thing judging by this video and the tweets he made for no reason at all while providing no sane awareness to it's audience.

So if I say German guy invade poland happend 80 years old, is it clot chasing?


Actually ram defragmentation could be a real thing, you forgot that the cache exists, and that it copies contiguous parts of the ram.


I used to fix a bunch of computers in that era, windows 98 and XP (crapware) was as prevalent as all the garbage crypto coins and overpriced manufactured e waste we are being shilled today.

Only difference is people like piling on drama on the internet.

So? who cares about the fact that was ~20 years? Doesn't make it any better.


This is sad to see. I'm not subbed to him but I did watch some of his videos and I liked them. Respected him for creating Task Manager but to find out that he quit microsoft in order to scam people who aren't aware of the existence of adware..This is unfortunate.


its disappointing I was excited to see another person who likes tech with and but just to find out they are a scammer


i hope he doesnt scam billions (pls reply me)


The microsoft MVP program wasn't "developers at microsoft". To the best of my understanding and fuzzy ass memory, it was people in their support forums who got promoted to have some profile bling (and I think they may have also gotten some free MSDN access?).
I think the bc_programming guy is a person who was saying they were in that MVP list, and that they have downloaded leaked source code (obviously not through the MVP program).
I believe what he's saying, of course. I am just trying to clarify minor mistakes in the video is all.


This American cancel culture is disgusting. He has received and presumably served his sentence. What else should be required?


Just a heads up - the reason you might want to defragment RAM is to create larger continuous free blocks for applications. I don't know Windows so well, but on classic Mac OS, programs were allocated contiguous blocks only, so if you had 2MB free, then 1k used, then 2 more MB free, you'd effectively only have 2MB available to the next program you launched, unless you did some memory management. I believe there was stuff that managed this to a degree, but it was still a minor issue and wasted RAM on macs up until the end of the "Classic" Mac OS era. I'd give more pertinent examples, but I'm not familiar with the specifics of Windows memory management.


15:48 You state that he was indicted yet show court documents from a civil lawsuit. Accusing someone of being criminally indicted when they were not seems like solid grounds for them to sue for defamation.

I don't think I said he was criminally indicted? Civil indictment is a thing

Thank you for the quick response.

Civil indictment is not a thing. "Indictment" refers to a criminal prosecution.

Criminal charges must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Civil claims are determined on a balance of probabilities. The judgment was actually a settlement agreement that was reduced to a court order. None of the allegations in the lawsuit were proved.

A settlement is a compromise of disputed claims; it does not require any admissions whereas a plea in a criminal proceeding does require an acknowledgement of the underlying facts. It makes sense that a person or company would agree to settle claims to avoid spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight the government without a guarantee of a successful outcome.

While I am not saying that your opinion about the nature of the software is right or wrong, bolstering your statements with misstatements about the court proceeding and outcome is likely quite dangerous.

25:50 You state that it's misleading and a scam yet the software tells you that you don't have to pay for it if you agree to receive ads. Whether or not you agree with this approach to software, I don't see how it is misleading or a scam. A scam requires that someone be deceived yet I don't see any deception. Calling something a "scam" suggests that someone has acted fraudulently.

As a general comment, you should consider the environment that existed nearly 20 years ago. Computers, operating systems, and the internet were all very different from how they operate now. Software was also distributed and marketed differently. The impugned actions and behaviour needs to be considered from the perspective of the extant conditions at the relevant time.

Concluding that software is a scam because it does not behave as you expect it to (e.g. modifying the hosts file) and, therefore, doesn't do anything, is also a dangerous approach. If, for example, it modified browser settings or somehow blocked connections using a blacklist, it would obviously do something. If you feel that this is unhelpful or does not provide sufficient value for the price that is paid, then you can state your opinion. Accusing a person of fraud based upon this opinion and without a full understanding of what the software does, or does not do, is dangerous.

It would be prudent for you to consult with legal counsel about potential liability and opportunities to mitigate damages.

30:52 "The felony was primarily happening..." This, again, makes it clear that you are accusing him of serious criminality.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has lawyers working on a lawsuit right now.


Actually, it makes perfect sense to defragment RAM. Having RAM be sequentially sorted does result in better performance. If you look at what some of the Linux kernel people are doing with different malloc implementations, it is one of the major things they're trying to resolve. I suspect this would matter even more, on old computers. Look up memory fragmentation, it's a thing!

TCP/IP is actually a protocol (Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol). Though he is optimizing the stack here (the implementation of TCP/IP), by changing registry values. It could realistically help, depending on a bunch of factors.

I don't think it's a job a utility is fit for anyway, though? That's on the side of the operating system. I also still don't think the OS would allow the memory to be fragmented enough to create problems with allocating larger pages, else that would be a fiasco. Defrag must happen on this kind of edge cases, but RAM is optimized for random reads. It's a matter of selling the a bunch of CPU cycles to ensure faster sequential speeds (the performance improvement is insignificant)

@@Endermanch Well, I have my doubts about the program actually defragmenting memory. If it were, it would probably be best if it hooks and replaces the memory allocation function of the kernel, and does some simple-ish guesses, to do it better.

How much fragmentation affects a program depends on how much dynamic memory it uses, how often it allocates/deallocates that memory, and how much of its memory is required at once. I could imagine it playing a role in some bigger productivity tasks, where a lot of objects reference eachother. But how big the impact actually is, I don't know. I just know it's there.

There are some real userspace programs for Windows that can clean something called the Working Set, introduced with Vista, and that's done with a simple function call. It can make the OS run on ridiculously small amounts of memory. It's not entirely out of the question that similar functions for freeing certain buffers might exist in older versions, so maybe the program has some validity.

@@Endermanch Well, I have my doubts about the program actually defragmenting memory. If it were, it would probably be best if it hooks and replaces the memory allocation function of the kernel, and does some simple-ish guesses, to do it better.

How much fragmentation affects a program depends on how much dynamic memory it uses, how often it allocates/deallocates that memory, and how much of its memory is required at once. I could imagine it playing a role in some bigger productivity tasks, where a lot of objects reference eachother. But how big the impact actually is, I don't know. I just know it's there.

There are some real userspace programs for Windows that can clean something called the Working Set, introduced with Vista, and that's done with a simple function call. It can make the OS run on ridiculously small amounts of memory. It's not entirely out of the question that similar functions for freeing certain buffers might exist in older versions, so maybe the program has *some* validity.


Calling out someone for scamming while having manually placed an advertisement every 2 to 3 minutes in a 34 min video. Pure greediness.

What? I never noticed, I have ad blocker.

Manually? I never set ad breaks manually. I leave this up to YouTube to do. Also you should get an AdBlocker right now, why are you enduring this

Bro fr, even on iPhone im using safari and an ad blocker. At least use uBlock or something if you’re on Windows/Linux 😂 bro really complaining about ads on a tech channel

My guy left a comment to expose himself as being tech naive

Get an adblocker my dude, even thw FBI straight up recommends it.

@@YaySyu I would say you are as soon YouTube will be placing the ads inside the video frames being steamed and it will be impossible to detect from any ad blocker.

Also I did eventually watched it from non cellphone based device already..

@@Endermanch I already had to do this as it was impossible to watch your video from my cell

@@Corpsebridefan777 No. You're tech illiterate. I suggested you use an adblocker because the FBI recommends it as an extra anti-malware security measure

You then responded with something completely unrelated, which makes me wonder if youre just illiterate in general and cant read.

Imagine not using an adblocker in your browser because it may not block youtube ads in the future.

Yeah and passwords will be useless when quantum computers are used to brute force one day. May I reccomenf you stop using passwords at all?

Tech illiterate logic rigght there

@@Corpsebridefan777 I want to scream. Its so dumb to not use an adblocker.

Do you come from a third world country? This is what third world country education looks like.

@@YaySyuYou seriously have no idea who you're talking to. I don't need tech advice. Also on Android unless you use a 3rd party app or setup a dedicated endpoint in the local network to filter relevant traffic it is not possible to skip them.

@@YaySyuAlso for the last comment, If I was an uneducated di*k like you I would make you look totally dumb. Just make an attempt to start a technical debate with me :)

@@Corpsebridefan777 install YouTube Revanced for Android or uYou+ for iOS

@@EndermanchThanks. I know about this but for security reasons I cannot install 3rd party software on that cell. I have already watched your video by the time I posted my first comment on a different device with ublock and mullvad vpn hosts on my router.

I have to apologize for misunderstanding your intentions though. Is not what I originally thought.

I will also give you a hint about a technical mistake you made in the video about ram fragmentation. Its a common issue in software memory allocator to have fragmentation in heap allocations. Especially when memory is low.

Although this makes the claim even more fake as it's literally impossible even from kernel level to do defragmentation in the allocations as this besides extra temporary storage it would need from kernel level to suspend every software running and replace the allocated pointers. Something that wouldn't be enough as when the programs would resume due to context switching the previously loaded addresses may still be present in the registers or stack including the program counter which would need to restart the entire operation prior suspension.


Well, he's no longer allowed to make software do that anymore according to that injunction.


Everybody gangsta till "defragmenting physical RAM"


Zoomers trying not to cancel others challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

Boomers trying not to scam others challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

Bro thinks journalism is cancel culture.

10000$ this guy votes for trump


It's pretty crazy, but I think we should respect that the dude these days seems to have a overall positive impact.

💯 agree i will still watch him but be careful of what he do and said and unsubscribe to him if he respond to badly or something worse happpen


Great video! I have a question tho. Why are the startup and shutdown sounds so messed up on VMWare?


damn he seemed like a cool guy, i was subscribed to his channel till now


There's only one question I have, what drove a retired Microsoft employee to scam other people?

@@trliy like every scammer. They knew they could, they knew they would get paid more doing so and lastly they think they will get away with it.


uh oh, select your player — we have to pick a side


Older PCs did RAM very different, there would be some very small improvement(maybe) (aggregation for sequential reads) .
 FYI Dave: I had to remove your SW and many others like it from vulnerable normies in the 90's and early 2000's not being able to uninstall is scammy and kinda inexcusable for someone who worked for M$. Seeing as it's all over and done with, you should man-up and apologise so I can go back to liking you please.
 Thankyou Enderman, I appreciate the video, but please remember it was a different time (the wildwest) I and many people made their livings fixing the systems of ppl who fell for this kind of thing, so in a way: everyone was involved... idk


I never knew why i didn't like the guy, now i know.


I love that you and Bob Pony are circling around this dude like prey ever since he made the start menu and pinball videos with wrong info lmfao


Maybe we should reverse engineer those programs with Ghidra to see whats doing in the Background.


The guy always rubbed me the wrong way anyways, I think it’s how he reads from the teleprompter like a robot. Regardless I unsubscribe from Dave’s garage asap after seeing this video.


feeling like i'm missing out on something, whats up with steve gibson?


Hi enderman i have a problem, I installed Windows 11 23h2 on vmware 12 after installation there is no round corner so i have to install Vmware Tools, After a successful installation the round corner is still not present

turn on hardware graphics acceleration, that'll help


Many damage, can be worst, but the main problem was who created many clones with terrible results

Yes, was a bad idea


Wonder if there's buddy's code still somewhere in Windows 11... I think I'll install Arch tomorrow

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interesting fact. Though i do not think he is doing anything shady now.


I watched his videos originally. Now it mostly seems to just be him rehearsing his days at microsoft again and again, same shit every time. It's time to block him from my feed, thanks for bringing this up!


There are a lot of non-technical people in this forum that did not have a Windows XP machine back then. I'm sorry but nothing I have seen in this video tells me that what was done was malware out right. Was it a money grab? Sure. That's called capitalism. And any sysadmin Will tell you that the windows registry has hundreds of settings that don't need to be there because of backwards compatibility from Microsoft. Considering he worked there, he knew about them - had insider knowledge, and knew how he could clean things up. They probably bugged him, so he sought them out and provided people a way to fix it.

Did people need to do this? No. But that doesn't mean it didn't do something. Is it a scam?  I'm on the fence.  If it doesn't hurt you is it a scam? I don't know. That said, his channel gives a lot of great information and I enjoy it. I will reserve my judgment until I see something that shows that he actually hurt people from his software.

David released a video today that I clicked on very shortly after release. I clicked on a comment that he responded to 30 seconds prior and suggested he respond to the criticism.

The comment got 3 likes and then it was deleted. Thats not a good look, regardless of guilt.

And you cant just excuse it as capitalism when an american court literally found enough wrong doing to seek damages.


Ah so that's why Dave is still using Microsoft products despite them being glorified adware.


Enderman said he made a bad job on the documentary so he decided to delist the video with possibly remaking it in the future.

I'm in the process of remaking it, in fact!


another day, another person gets outed on youtube/twitter for some scams


This makes me sad and angry about social media! You dont know everything about the person who is on any platform and what they did/might do while they wear a mask to make them seem good and to attract viewers and subs. A bad person can easily hide their true horrifying side behind a bunch of good text about them in the description or by saying "i worked at this company" while after that he tuened to the evil pad but he wont show!

I like these exposure channels uncovering the truth behind the person on any social platform. Lets hope we expose more of these but also lets hope that youtube aint full of these people because then there wil be no one left to watch


Do I even care about this? Probably not.


not any more of a grifter move than shoving openai api calls in everything now, don't really care. he saw a way to make a buck and chased it and made millions, what an absolute hustler

@ТомашШубарић


This makes me feel sad. I like his videos for some reason, even when they are pretty long and not always that  inside information what you're seeking for.

Registry clearers do something. The thing is that even on a clean install, some regkeys are not assigned. The problem is when you delete those keys, it may need them later. But unused keys can actually cause blanks, because the database is still loaded in memory. One of the reasons I dislike it, it is pretty useless.

Thanks for posting, but also making me feel bad at the same time lol.


why are sounds broken? i have the same problem maybe you can help?


I didn't really get what was the problem? You didn't cover much of the legal stuff but looking at it the complaint it was not about scamming or defrauding someone but rather how difficult the software was to remove or left files around even when uninstalled and used fomo tactics to upsell more garbage software. I think this video misrepresents some of the facts for shock value


Watch him try to c0pyr!ght str!ke this video 😂😂😂😂😂


Everybody is getting exposed for something every day lol


Why not use process monitor to see what the website blocker was writing to?


Bruh i thought he was better yhan this i have been watching his vids for years and i didn't have a clue. Good job spreading information,n


уже 4 года на тебя подписан, чувак я рандомно это сделал :D

я смотрел его ещё лет 7 назад. как тебе такое?


you really take after rougeamp huh down to the model m say do you remember AmpDan1 for me that was a thing I looked forward to watching during a dark time in my life. I'm not surprised by all this btw the guy seemed like a nobody and only talked about the days at microsoft. I've had suspicions about it from the start but not say anything because I was worried about being looked down on for it


god damn it... why must the YouTube creators I like keep turning out to be arsehats


You know its a scam when even an error has an upgrade button


It only found those errors because it was Windows, I guarantee if you tried to run it on Mac it would not be able to find a single error.

@@xgui4-studios you should try running the program on mac to see I'm right.

you can't run an exe on mac , you can use wine or playonmac but it will give you the same errors. it is programmed to trick you into buying the full version


When I watched ONE video of him he already seemed like a egoist fraud. I dont believe he made task manager either.


someone download and make a torrent link in case this video gets blocked.


He gonna be busy to delete comments on his YT channel talk about his past.


I could kiiiiiinda see the memory defragmentation if it allows for more efficient i guess organization as far as virtual to physical mappings of pages goes, so it in theory might be doing something but yeah it's pretty snake oily and for the average user this isn't going to mean a whole lot of difference and is kinda too much of an implementation detail that yeah the OS probably should just be doing on its own (and XP might've already been doing).
The net turbo is also kinda, stuff the OS should've already been doing, and XP probably also was doing.  There were also several free tools which did the same thing.  And again, for the average user considering the average internet/network speeds, it's just not going to be doing a whole lot so kinda snake oil-y.
I always figured he was a bit of a bootlicker but yeah just a usual kinda bougey tech nerd type who's an unapologetic serial entrepreneur.  Your typical libertarian type who just believe in their personal freedom to take advantage and exploit people and justifies it for various reasons that amount to their "superiority".  It's just toxic and an approach to things that if allowed to persist that at scale just creates so many problems and waste that are just unnecessary and further escalation of existing problems. (of course, he's a pretty minor case in the larger picture, but a part of a cultural problem)
"The nontechnical user i convinced it was useful to thought it was useful and paid me for it, so it's obviously fine.  The market said it was fine.  I did nothing wrong, I'm totally innocent!"

I could kiiiiiinda see the memory defragmentation if it allows for more efficient i guess organization as far as virtual to physical mappings of pages goes, so it in theory might be doing _something_ but yeah it's pretty snake oily and for the average user this isn't going to mean a whole lot of difference and is kinda too much of an implementation detail that yeah the OS probably should just be doing on its own (and XP might've already been doing).
The net turbo is also kinda, stuff the OS should've already been doing, and XP probably also was doing.  There were also several free tools which did the same thing.  And again, for the average user considering the average internet/network speeds, it's just not going to be doing a whole lot so kinda snake oil-y.
I always figured he was a bit of a bootlicker but yeah just a usual kinda bougey tech nerd type who's an unapologetic serial entrepreneur.  Your typical libertarian type who just believe in their personal freedom to take advantage and exploit people and justifies it for various reasons that amount to their "superiority".  It's just toxic and an approach to things that if allowed to persist that at scale just creates so many problems and waste that are just unnecessary and further escalation of existing problems. (of course, he's a pretty minor case in the larger picture, but a part of a cultural problem)
"The nontechnical user i convinced it was useful to thought it was useful and paid me for it, so it's obviously fine.  The market said it was fine.  I did nothing wrong, I'm totally innocent!"


Ohh I installed a bunch of those scan stuff at the time lol sometimes I installed the pirat* version of those things lol good old times!!!


if you want to censor youself in the future you could call the last one there at 19:24 the TF2 spy sites lol


Just watched a video of his channel then I saw this premiere talking about himself, What?


How much of your audience was even alive for the better part of 2006?


Sounds like he just took the easy street after Microsoft. Either Stay and be made to do actual work, or start a new company that saves the unknowing civilian from the Boogie man inside the PC and the internet lol.

Seems like he got away from it before it ruined him completely 🤣.


Dave must be desperate for side income as a Microsoft dev 😀😀😀


4:04 that just extending the vram no not video ram virtual ram


Wonder if @DavesGarage will respond to this?


Hi it's Microsoft and I'm here to fix your computer


Yeah, dave is a top tier scammer. He has good stories though. 😂


you should definitely make more videos with your voice, i can literally hear the accent fading away lol


Can you try to reverse engineer these programs to actually see what they are doing? It would be interesting to see other malware/viruses/pups reverse engineered aswell.


posted a link to your video to fedi btw, as it seems you don't have an account

I feel like 50/50 that this is the type of thing to pop off on there tbh


Can you please install windows to folder named /


Looks like Dave has a TON of bots praising him and pretending he’s done nothing wrong. Sort by “new” and you’ll see them


While I don't disagree on the exposition of the facts about Dave Plummer, I find it quite irritating the arrogant tone, especially in contrast with the clear lack of technical knowledge. As also stated elsewhere, memory can be fragmented just as well. The fact that it has been designed for random access doesn't imply that aligned data isn't going to speed up stuff. Again, as already pointed out elsewhere it is highly likely that the software mentioned here did nothing to realign memory chunks, but this is already quite clear to anyone.

Why not keeping the presentation to a level more suitable to your skills?


3:34 it was literally 1984, lol (lol no it wasn't a dystopia)


could I please get to know which virtual machine enderman uses??


Over to You @Dave, answer for yourself, once you have I may re-subscribe.


Dave’s fake software was better than Norton Utilities, which used more system resources than it freed up.  I don’t know how many times someone would complain of a slow computer and they “optimized” their computer with Norton.  I removed it and the system was back to normal.


I was trying to make a my first video using this topic (i even had the script done, just needed to edit the video), great stuff on the video tho. ❤


Dave Plumber is a legend, I don't care if a bunch of people have decided to tar and feather him for something he may or may not have done over 20 years ago


Regarding memory defragmentation. I assume, the uploader never heard about memory/heap fragmentation? Memory allocation/trimming? Do your research before uploading videos. I am not defending software which is being demonstrated, but this is just a fact, that memory fragmentation exists and can lead to performance issues.


dang in a fresh Windows installation too


That was 2006. People change.  He’s still a net positive in my book.


TCP/IP is a protocol not a stack, that is what the “P” stands for in both acronyms. Also fragmented ram is a real problem if you have a small amount of ram and limited address space as new allocations of buffers, etc need to be made from contiguous free memory or they will fail with an out of memory error. Not saying the tool works, but it is not making up the issue.

@@QuintonDolan TCP/IP is a stack they are protocols individually. Lookup tcp/ip model

tcp and ip are both protocols, its in their name. but tcp/ip is a stack


@@Endermanchlogin sound also sounded weird


yoo wsg my fav ytber. also damn im kinda blown away but not sure if I should be shocked


I thought he was completely halal bro...


Wow. I mean, I didn't trust this guy for a long time, but this goes beyond what I thought him capable.

I enjoyed some of his videos in the beginning. Cracks started to show for me after he made that language benchmark series, asking for contributions of code, and then just forgot about that and moved on. Kind of dick move for the people that spend time on it (I did not, but would've been very annoyed). Then he started to make ever more egregious claims, and started putting autism in every video title. When he then released that book with that title, I knew that he was clearly not the kind of man that I wanted anything from.

But this... Damn.


Neato another hitpeice about something someone did before half the people watching this were even born, poorly researched too as dave has mentioned this before, its also not a secret it's literally on his wikipedia page, and calling the software a scam is pure ignorance, as someone else mentioned in the comments ram defragmenting is a real thing, and old on windows OS's registry cleaners did actually do things and could fix issues with your machine. This just reeks of clout sharking.


wow, that sucks

[atleast its better than dr disrespect, but not by a lot]


Enderman can you record a video of downloading malware’s on Windows 11 “Malware11” Please


i almost "liked" the guy back then although i didn't mind

seems like 2024 is the year of exposing people


are you at all worried that youtube/dave may try to take down this video?


you never actually corrected your videos and the thing with thinking you are setting up the system user when in reality the oobe was checking for updates


they're either a pdf file or a scammer. what happened to youtube...

Don't insult PDFs by correlating them with chomos again. 😡


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wouldn't defragmenting ram reduce the chance of failing a malloc ? :^)

Memory is divided into fixed-size pages (that you can traverse and link in any order) which then get allocated to running programs, so I'm pretty sure it wouldn't do anything in terms of that

Basically, memory paging already solves this

RAM fragmentation is a real issue inherent to many applications, but it requires reconsidering whole memory management strategy. It is also largely internal within individual pages, so operating system can generally do nothing about it.

Only some virtual machine based runtimes can defragment their RAM. Even where it is hypothetically possible, most such runtimes do not, because overhead would be too high.

The claim by this utility that it can defragment RAM is misleading, it can do no such thing.


I see no evidence of anything except bad software and a lawsuit. So how does that diminish his expertise?

That's not the point. The point is he was a scammer.

@@BrunodeSouzaLino he was , he is no longer i hope...

He knows nothing about linux which doesnt stop him from yapping nonsense about it. Like when he said closed source programs were better after the XZ linux eploit when months later we find out Solar Winds happened because MS refused to fix an azure exploit which countless engineers and security firms warned them about as admitting to having a security vulnerability would lower the stock and risk positional contracts. isnt closed source software SO much more secure Dave!!

@@FemboyCatGaming There's also something suspicious about his machines. He has over 100 TB of storage on his main PC. Even if you were dealing with gigantic AI datasets, you wouldn't need that much storage. Considering he also promoted Chia in the past, that could be the explanation for it....


Enderman can you please make videos involving adware, and also using android virtual machines?


Me: Makes Scamware
Damm hope this does not haunt me 20 years later
Now:


Commenting for the algorithm. Knew something was up with this guy despite enjoying some of his content. Disappointed, but not surprised. Good work from you and all your fellow contributors for bringing this to light again, Enderman. I hope he addresses this <i>properly;</i> people deserve to know the truth. Even so, I find it unlikely with his penchant for telling tall tales.

Commenting for the algorithm. Knew something was up with this guy despite enjoying some of his content. Disappointed, but not surprised. Good work from you and all your fellow contributors for bringing this to light again, Enderman. I hope he addresses this _properly;_ people deserve to know the truth. Even so, I find it unlikely with his penchant for telling tall tales.


You just exposed former MS employee, I don't watch him for like 2 years, and I wouldn't watch his chanell. I better watch your chanel, to see more exposed tech scams.


Oh no! A random old man has engaged in sketchy activity!<br>/s

Oh no! A random old man has engaged in sketchy activity!
/s


Bro, what is wrong with literally every YouTuber at this point???


Jesus! I think I also bought this 'registry cleaner' back in 2003–04! I was so naive...


What do you mean it makes no sense to defragment RAM?<br>Yes it does, if memory is fragmented, it becomes harder if not impossible to allocate new contiguous memory.

What do you mean it makes no sense to defragment RAM?
Yes it does, if memory is fragmented, it becomes harder if not impossible to allocate new contiguous memory.

Now the question really is, does his software actually defrag ram, it's a fairly hard task. I am pretty sure it is impossible to this if paging is disabled, as in order to move memory around without crashing the program, you need some way to make sure that pointers to that memory would still be valid

It says defragment physical RAM, which is nonsensical. If it said defragment virtual memory, then it would make sense.

@@nikkiofthevalley No it makes total sense, like I said memory defragers usually work by moving things in PHYSICAL memory, but they stay in the same place in virtual memory (because obviously, they have to). the one thing that seems to be complete bullshit is it seems to suggest as if memory fragmentation builds up over time, even between boot cycles.

@@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683 Oh.. I was thinking about that the wrong way around.

Memory fragmentation (more correctly heap fragmentation) is a real problem but the only practical solution is fragmentation avoidance, you can't really defragment it, not when you have a system full of applications written in C related languages or languages with a similar memory model, be it even Pascal/Delphi or anything of a kind. Where it is possible, it's impractical for performance reasons.

Microsoft Basic actually defragmented its own memory. On 8-bit computers. It ran at a leisurely pace of several operations per second on machines that cost a little more than a nice calculator and could execute about a quarter million machine instructions per second. Memory was counted in kilobytes and compromises had to be made.

You don't need to defragment physical RAM on PC because all pages are equivalent to each other, and contiguous memory is never needed, OS just pieces together a needed contiguous chunk of virtual memory from any random assortment of physical pages. The software is misleading in what it does.

@@SianaGearz Yes, the software does mislead what it actually does. but Enderman doesn't seem to understand enough about the topic to have accurately criticized the software. He should really do better


As an autistic person myself, I can understand miss remembering or some memories getting filled in with extra info I later found out my brain just made up.