make a virtual hard drive?

Question

is there a way to increse the ram settings in superfetch? or use ram as a solid state drive kinda thing.

i found this: http://www.farstone.com/software/virtual-hard-drive.htm

but im sure there is a way to do it without buying the program.... any ideas?

shaglund1 · Answer

i found a free one: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/27/free-ramdisk-for-windows-vista-xp-2000-and-2003-server/   anyone used it? comments?

banhien · Answer

@shaglund1 wrote:

is there a way to increse the ram settings in superfetch? or use ram as a solid state drive kinda thing.
. ... but im sure there is a way to do it without buying the program.... any ideas?

Whichever way you have to pay $$$ for this facility - but I've noticed we can only see some improvemnt when having less than 2Gb of RAM. Very hard to see improvemnt when having more RAM in the machine. I'm using a SSD for ReadyBoost with swap/page file on other HDD but can't see much when remove the SSD.

BH

XPS M1730 - 4Gb of RAM & Vista Ultimate

shaglund1 · Answer

i ended up turning off pagefile... gave me the performance increase i was looking for... uses a little more ram, but it speeds things up alot...

flamenko · Answer

If you take a look at my Tweaking Guide below, you will note that one of the tweaks discusses turning pagefile right off. I have done this after alot of testing. I learned that, although you may reduce pagefile because you have 4Gb ram, it is still forced into use until you actually shut it right down.

Once you shut it right down, many have felt (as I) that you will see a visible difference even with an ssd. This is probably two fold in that there is less disk activity and also the system is now forced to use the ram.

I recommend to all to follow my Clean Install thread and then Tweaking thread and havent had anyone regret it yet. Many have boasted of the success they have had though.

shaglund1 · Answer

right on! boot and shutdown times are almost in half! ram use is down and i eliminated almost 1GB of junk on my HD...

is there a way to keep my usb on when i enter sleep? every time i put my computer to sleep my usb drive shuts off and it takes almost 7 mins to reload the readyboost onto it (3572MB)...

flamenko · Answer

No I dont think so. I have had these same probs when i leave the flash drive in. As a matter of fact, I have had it take extremely long to start if I lave it in nd pull it out on start up.

I have also had i hang starting with USB in...temperamental it is...only with the usb drive though. I have no prob with a sd card.

banhien · Answer

flamenko wrote:

If you take a look at my Tweaking Guide below, you will note that one of the tweaks discusses turning pagefile right off. I have done this after alot of testing. I learned that, although you may reduce pagefile because you have 4Gb ram, it is still forced into use until you actually shut it right down.
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I now have 2 swap files on 2 HDD's - How can I delete the old one on drive C? My swap file on drive D has 1Gb min, 3Gb max - I may set to just 1Gb to see how I go.

Thanks,

BH

Windows General

make a virtual hard drive?

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