Question : Problem: memory vbs script

I keep reading about a notepad trick that will supposedly free up RAM, open notepad and type:  mystring=(80000000) and save to desktop as a .vbs file, is this for real? Does it hurt the memory physically? And can you tell me if any programs like WinMem optimizer or others like it actually do any good? Does it al have to do with moving RAM over to page file?

Answer : Problem: memory vbs script

What it does is allocate a large chunk of memory, forcing anything currently in memory to be paged out to disk.  Hopefully, when the memory allocated is freed, the paged memory is reallocated in continuous chunks.  It doesn't hurt the memory, but since real RAM is cheap, that would be a better way to solve RAM shortage.