Cycle Window State

[kpu 0]

I'm working with a third party utility that has a basic memory leak. Since the application has to run on a running windows session, eventually the memory leak causes the application to crash. In the past, I've resolved this by basically cycling the window state to maximized and then to minimized - which releases the memory. However, I found that it doesn't work when the RDP or VmWare console isn't active (Just to be clear, the console has a user logged in at all times).

Here is the function. As you can see, not much to it.

Func CycleWindowState($title)       
    $return = WinSetState($title,"",@SW_MAXIMIZE)
    $return = WinActivate($title)
    ;if($return == 0) Then
    ;   SendEmail($emailFromAddress, $emailToAddress,$emailSubjectLine,"Unable to Activate Window","")
    ;EndIf
    Send("{ALT}{SPACE}n")   
    Sleep(100)
EndFunc

Does anyone know how I can cycle the window state when the RDP or VmWare session isn't active? What's failing to run is "Send("{ALT}{SPACE}n")". I can't use the WinSetState function as it doesn't release the memory like I expect. One solution I had working was to click on the task-bar item after maximizing it. However, if someone logs into the console with a different screen resolution, it won't click on the coordinates.

If you're confused on what I'm taking about on releasing memory:

1) Open notepad maximized

2) Then your look at you the Task Manager and click on the "Processes" tab, and note the "Mem Usage"

3) Minimize notepad and you'll see the memory usage decreases.

[guinness 1,466]

And if you use the WinAPIEx.au3 UDF then _WinAPI_EmptyWorkingSet()

[kpu 0]

Thanks! That did the trick. Handy little snippet!

Why don't you just use the _ReduceMemory function?

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