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Thread ID: 38106 2003-09-27 09:49:00 Ram Optimizers - Are they any good? ron_m (4565) Press F1
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178356 2003-09-28 11:03:00 They can be a trade off, ie you use RAM to use them, but some do a good job and as PoWa rightly points outs windows is not that good at cleaning up behind itself, I personally don't use them. beama (111)
178357 2003-09-28 11:15:00 I tried a few RAM optimisers quite a while ago even as far back as the 486 I used,

They didn't appear to do much for me.

Now I have 1 Gig RAM and twin 120 Gig hard drives and so haven't tried a RAM optimiser for a while now.

YMMV
Elephant (599)
178358 2003-09-29 06:18:00 Isn't Cacheman a RAM optimiser?? ?:| Susan B (19)
178359 2003-09-29 08:47:00 >Isn't Cacheman a RAM optimiser??

no, its just a tweak program. it changes a few registry settings (tho there is a clear ram optoin).

ram optimisers run all the time to control what is/isn't loaded into the ram. unfortunatly what little gain they have you lose in resoures.

ideally you need to rewrite windows memory management.......but then again you might as well use a better OS.
tweak'e (174)
178360 2003-09-29 18:26:00 Oh I see. I never did notice any difference when I tried Cacheman so maybe Win XP does a pretty good job at handling things itself.

Thanks for the clarification. :-)
Susan B (19)
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