Ramdrive Speeds Up Netbooks

If you can upgrade to 2gb of DRAM, a small amount of it (128mb) can be used to speed up your netbook.

This is a free RAMDRIVE that will automatically copy from an image file at start, and then backup to an image with your shutdown.

http://www.cenatek.com/product_page_...nload_list.php

Download this one:

http://www.cenatek.com/downloads/Dat...V3.5_TEST3.msi

It is free for disk under 4gb!

The code is small, compact, works like a charm, and so far, flawless.

Create the drive as unformatted (with the default drive letter). Then follow instructions to use your Computer Management / Disk Management to set the Drive to the permanent letter you want, and then format it to NTFS.

Then, set it to "Load Disk Image at Setup" and "Save Disk Image at Shutdown".

The factory instructions are here:

file:///D:/Program%20Files/RAMDisk/RAMDiskXP%20Users%20Manual.html



"3. How do I create an NTFS formatted RAM disk?

Since much of the NTFS structure is undocumented by Microsoft, RAMDiskXP does not support creating an NTFS formatted disk explicitly (there is no "NTFS" button like there is for "FAT 16" and "FAT 32"). However, you can format a RAM disk using the NTFS file system by using Windows Disk Management.

By saving and loading the RAM disk image on startup you can automatically start with an NTFS formatted RAM disk, since the disk image format overrides any other configuration settings.

RAMDiskSE does not support dynamic disks. Since Windows likes to keep track of dynamic disks, it gets upset when one is missing (like every time you shutdown a RAMDisk). When prompted, it is best to set RAMDisk to "basic" disk type."


The next step is to set your temp files to this disk:

So far, I set:

windows temp and tmp via the Control Panel / System/ Advanced / Environment Variables setting dialog box.

then I set Firefox and Internet explorer caches to the ram drive.

What I have yet to do is to redirect more temp files here....

Thus far, the performance increase have been quite stunning for very little effort (and a very small 128mb disk).