ramdisk for browser cache

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Give your hard drive a break and make your browser screamingly fast by
setting its cache to a ramdisk. Browser cache need not be more than
20MB (even with 20MB cache I set the ramdisk at 32MB for slack and the
occasional large download).

windows nt,2000,xp:
http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1

windows 9x:
Not much of a choice here... AFAIK the available freeware ramdisk
drivers are all 16bit, which is not good for the rest of the system
(reasons over my head).

You will see the difference in speed by browsing:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?view=1&order=9&limit=24
Like when you click on the back button and all the images pop up
instantly (on the order of the bandwidth of your graphics card).
 
Give your hard drive a break and make your browser screamingly fast by
setting its cache to a ramdisk. Browser cache need not be more than
20MB (even with 20MB cache I set the ramdisk at 32MB for slack and the
occasional large download).

windows nt,2000,xp:
http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1

windows 9x:
Not much of a choice here... AFAIK the available freeware ramdisk
drivers are all 16bit, which is not good for the rest of the system
(reasons over my head).
Click to expand...

I use speedmedic's Ramdrive - which, according to the blurb, does
'something' to get around any issues with 16 bit compatibility mode.
Works for me.

Tried to access their site for more info ( www.speedmedic.com ) but it
appears to be down.

Regards,
 
Give your hard drive a break and make your browser screamingly fast by
setting its cache to a ramdisk. Browser cache need not be more than
20MB (even with 20MB cache I set the ramdisk at 32MB for slack and the
occasional large download).

windows nt,2000,xp:
http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1

windows 9x:
Not much of a choice here... AFAIK the available freeware ramdisk
drivers are all 16bit, which is not good for the rest of the system
(reasons over my head).

You will see the difference in speed by browsing:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?view=1&order=9&limit=24
Like when you click on the back button and all the images pop up
instantly (on the order of the bandwidth of your graphics card).
Click to expand...

I believe Kmeleon browser has ramdisk built in.
 
I believe Kmeleon browser has ramdisk built in.
Click to expand...

I have been using AR ramdisk quite a long time, I have both my browser
cache and my temp-files in the virtual disk. And it really speeds
things up! I use 100Mb of RAM for the disk but it really is worth it.
Jari
 
Jari Lehtonen said:
I have been using AR ramdisk quite a long time, I have both my browser
cache and my temp-files in the virtual disk. And it really speeds
things up! I use 100Mb of RAM for the disk but it really is worth it.
Jari
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I've changed the browser cache location, but how do you change the TEMP
files location for windows??
I'm using XP Pro....

FredD
 
I've changed the browser cache location, but how do you change the TEMP
files location for windows??
I'm using XP Pro....

FredD
Click to expand...

Unlike the TIF, I don't think you can control the size the TEMP folder
will reach, so be careful... I don't know what happens if the size
requirement of some files exceeds the capacity of the TEMP folder.

In AUTOEXEC.BAT you can use the SET command. I started to think there
is a registry setting also, but I guess not...

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/464/
 
I've changed the browser cache location, but how do you change the TEMP
files location for windows??
I'm using XP Pro....
Click to expand...
There is not a big risk to have temp files in RAM-drive, if it gets
full there comes only a notification "Disk full...". I have manually
adjusted the temp-folder of some programs (like Winrar" in some other
place, because unpacking large packets needs much temp-space.

You can simultaneously push Windows-key and the Pause/Break key to get
the System Properties windows up. There is a button for environmental
variables. You can change the temp and tmp -folder to Ram-drive there.

Jari
 
Fred D said:
Jari Lehtonen said:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:09:29 GMT, INspire

[snip]
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I've changed the browser cache location, but how do you change the TEMP
files location for windows??
I'm using XP Pro....
Click to expand...

Get X-setup Pro and change many file locations including TEMP. It is free
at
http://www.x-setup.net/
Alternately, right click MY Computer>Advanced Tab>Environment Variables and
TEMP and TMP change there. I put temporary internet files, temp, recent
documents, cookies, and history in ramdisk and it works very well for me.
HTH
 
Unlike the TIF, I don't think you can control the size the TEMP folder
will reach, so be careful... I don't know what happens if the size
requirement of some files exceeds the capacity of the TEMP folder.

In AUTOEXEC.BAT you can use the SET command. I started to think there
is a registry setting also, but I guess not...

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/464/
Click to expand...



System Properties | Environmental Variables

But you'll have problems that way, e. g. installations that expect a
non-volatile TEMP dir between reboots.

Better to just launch programs that you want to use the ramdisk TEMP from a
batch file using the SET command or from an autoit script that uses the
setenv command like:

setenv,TEMP,r:\\
setenv,TMP,r:\\

Note that you could launch a toolbar from such and thereafter apps launched
from that would have the temp var set to use the ramdisk.
 
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