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Great product. Couple of Qs.

On a Windows 7 32 bit system with 4G ram used for typical home/office use what is the best use of an IM ramdisk?
Either for a swap file or as readyboost?

Or would fancycache be a better option over a ram disk?

Thanks

Hi,

Thanks for your attention to our product.

For a typical home user, you might redirect some temporary paths to the ramdisk, such as the temporary paths in the internet browsers (IE, firefox, chrome, etc.), or the Windows TEMP/TMP environment variables, printer pool, etc.

Of course you also can try the FancyCache. They are differenct prodcuts.

Hi, It's really good job you shared it will be helpful tip for the use of ram for typical pc. Thanks for your contribution and I hope you will also share in future.

Thanks!

FYI for Romex Suppport - dusty's post seems to be link spam (an attempt to gain increased search engine ranking for the website listed in his signature).

To get back on-topic, a system with just 4GB probably wouldn't have enough memory to gain much from a Ramdisk (you'd only have about 750MB or so of "unmanaged memory" on a 32-bit system) and that could pose problems if used to hold temporary files (many programs will crash or fail without explanation if the disk holding the Temp folder runs out of space).

With more memory (6GB+) you have less risk of problems using a Ramdisk for a Temp file (suggestion to Romex: allowing a ramdisk to expand onto a physical disk when full may seem counter-intuitive but could offer a way to avoid such problems). Pagefiles should pose no problem as long as they are a fixed size.

Relocating a temp file does involve some hassle (changing the values of 4 environment variables in Windows and potentially the configurations of programs that keep track separately of where their temporary files should go). An easier option may be to replace such temp folder(s) with a junction point linking them to a folder on the ramdisk - junction points (an NTFS feature - not available on FAT16/FAT32 volumes) can be set up using the Junction utility written by SysInternals.

Hi InquiringMind,

InquiringMind wrote:FYI for Romex Suppport - dusty's post seems to be link spam (an attempt to gain increased search engine ranking for the website listed in his signature).

Thank you for your remind. We have disabled the hyperlink in the signature.

We have also noticed the TEMP issue you mentioned. And we have some new features which might be helpful to this isuse. They'll be coming soon.