I've noticed in Win2000 when applications are minimized the footprint of the application in memory drops dramitically.
The only reason I can think of is that knowing that the visual parts of the app are not being using Windows cleverly offloads them to the swap file.

So my question is, does anyone know of a way to swap parts of thier applications to VM, therefore creating the above effect without minimizing the window first.

I know the old create a huge block technique but I want a more gracefull way that won't affect the whole system.