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HelpFile still in memory

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I made a program within an helpfile.

Memory used by the program = 1560Kb
I open my HelpFile (with a lot of screenshots) = 160128Kb
Closing the Helpfile, program = 157872Kb

How do i free memory used by the Helpfile ?

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Often, Windows waits a bit with freeing memory (if there is already a lot of free memory, it's not needed to waste time on freeing small pieces). Maybe that's what's happening. Often the memory will get freed when the program's window is minimized.
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Thanks for the info Trond
Testing again, after loading my program,, memory used = 604Kb
With helpfile opened : 13540Kb
Closing it, waiting 5 seconds : back to 634Kb

How Windows manages memory ? it's a real black hole :lol:
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