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Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mr.mark who wrote (15042)	1/18/2001 4:42:16 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

RAMDISK stuff ... First, the RAMDISK supplied with Windows limits the disk you can create. Get a copy of XMSDSK a RamDisk discussed on this thread a few months ago. It's necessary to make this idea work. Put the following lines in your AutoExec.BAT file. At first, I used a 256meg disk, but later adjusted it to half because I didn't need that much storage. This explains the REM'd larger size. Note: I use drive H:, others may select something different. REM Create a RAM disk REM C:\WINDOWS\XMSDSK 262144 H: /T /C1 /Y C:\WINDOWS\XMSDSK 131072 H: /T /C1 /Y MD H:\WINDOWS MD H:\WINDOWS\TEMP MD H:\WINDOWS\HISTORY MD H:\WINDOWS\COOKIES SET TMP=H:\WINDOWS\TEMP SET TEMP=H:\WINDOWS\TEMP Re-boot your system and make sure you have the drive you want with the letter you want. Make sure you also have the four sub-directories you expect, and the environment variables take the correct values. The next step is to let Windows know that you want to use these new locations. We do this through the registry. Create a .REG file with the following entries if you're courageous, or enter the edits manually if your cautious. I like using he .REG file because I can edit it and reverse the damage. A manual RegEdit has the advantage of letting you catch anything on your system that's different from what I have. Your choice. But remember to do your back- ups first! REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Special Paths\Cookies] "Directory"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Cookies" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths] "Directory"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files\\" "FirstProcAttachHKLMCacheDirectory"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path1] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files\\Cache1" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path2] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files\\Cache2" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path3] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files\\Cache3" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Paths\path4] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files\\Cache4" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Content] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Temporary Internet Files" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Cookies] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\Cookies\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\History] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\History\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Extensible Cache\MSHist012000121120001218] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\History\\MSHist012000121120001218\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache\Extensible Cache\MSHist012000121820001219] "CachePath"="H:\\WINDOWS\\History\\MSHist012000121820001219\\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Url History] "Directory"="H:\\WINDOWS\\History" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\VolumeCaches\Temporary files] "folder"="H:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP\\" Once your registry is edited, re-boot. Find your old history, cookies, cache on your disk and delete them. Check that your RamDisk is filling as you work. Double check that your hard disk does NOT contain unwanted cookies, cache, or hisory files. With these changes, expect less disk activity when on-line, noticeably faster page displays, especially from cache, and of course, the automatic clean-up as these files are destroyed at every shutdown. Again, make your back-up before making your changes. Cheers, PW. P.S. I used a bit of a shortcut in making my .REG file. I exported the 'CurrentVersion' rootkey, deleted the unchanging keys, and edited only the keys needing changes. I also saved my .REG file, so with simple C: for H: substitute, I can reverse my changes.