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Originally posted by Morkeleb
It would not work well on systems with less then 512 MB of ram,
prefered 1024 MB Ram.
Hi Morkeleb,
first of all...for winxp/win2k this is free and has
control panel..upto 2gb can be allocated. I use this
one for a few years already...(does not "exclude" ram)
http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1more selections..
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/RAM_Disks.htmFor 128mb ram you can use small ramdisk(2mb)for TIF,
(temporary internet files) that speeds up ineternet
explorer and since it loses data at shutdown...you
lose any bugs, ads, banners, that were in there.
For 256mb ram you can have 16-32mb ramdisk and place
the TIF and run some programs (drop into ramspace).
For 512mb ram you can have 64-128mb ramdisk and put
TIF and Temp(mycomputer/properties)hunt for where
the /temp path is assigned and set path to ramdisk
letter. <environmental variables>
problem 1...too small a tif can affect IE downloads (no room)
cure..use 3rd party download utility
problem 2...too small a temp can affect program installs (same)
cure...make larger ramdisk or split temp dirs
CAUTION...
do NOT do this if you don't_know how to write/fix boot.ini
or if you only have 128mb ram (not enough to load sys in ram)
If you have lots of ram (512mb preferred)then you can
speed windows up quite a bit by pre-loading startups
into ram during bootphase (test and see if you like it).
[boot loader] (boot.ini in startup and recovery section)
add the /inram after the fastdetect and save
/fastdetect /inram
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