What's New
Status Window (click tray icon or right-click → Status Window…)
- Dark popup positioned above system tray (Win11 rounded corners + dark title bar)
- Large color-coded RAM % (green/yellow/red)
- 5-minute GDI sparkline graph
- Last 5 clean events (time, MB freed, process count)
- Admin / limited-mode badge
- Closes on lose-focus or ESC
Color-Coded Tray Icon
- Dynamic 16×16 GDI icon redrawn every second
- Green < 60 % · Yellow 60–80 % · Red > 80 %
Process Exclusion List
- Settings → "Exclude processes (comma-sep exe names, e.g.
game.exe, vm.exe)" - Matching processes skipped by
EmptyWorkingSet— prevents latency spikes in games/VMs
Scheduled Clean
- Settings → hour (0–23) + minute (0–59), −1 = disabled
- Fires once per calendar day at the configured time
Per-Clean Log
- Every clean appends a UTF-8 line to
%APPDATA%\RAMKeeper\clean.log - Viewable in Notepad for auditing
UAC Detection
- First clean while non-elevated shows one-time balloon: "Not running as admin — standby & cache cleanup skipped"
Other
- Configurable notify threshold (default 10 MB, now a Settings field)
- "Show status window after clean" toggle in Settings
- Ctrl+Alt+R in silent mode now flashes a brief confirmation balloon
- Settings dialog expanded with "Schedule & Notifications" and "Process Exclusion" sections
Binary Size
163 KB (+14 KB from v1.0.3) · No new external dependencies · Static CRT
Install
winget
winget install ashishpatel26.RAMKeeper
Chocolatey
choco install ramkeeper
Manual — download RAMKeeper.zip, extract, right-click RAMKeeper.exe → Properties → Unblock → OK → Run as Administrator.