Create a Ram Disk in Windows XP/2000 to speed up graphics creation/Internet access
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I ran across this at one of the Tech sites I visit and thought it would be some use to people here for speeding up graphics creation and such.
Actually purchasing a 3rd party Ram Disk application would help more because of expanded size, but this is free and it will make a difference in graphics creation used as the first swap disk. It will also help those that just want to put their Internet CACHE on it so that IE finds info at ram speeds instead of disk read speed or conversly writes also.
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TO CREATE A RAM DRIVE ON WINDOWS XP/2000
Download this: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000ddk/sample01/1/NT5/EN-US/Ramdisk.exe
Extract it. (Note the location of which you extracted the files)
Go to Control Panel -> Add Hardware -> Choose From a List -> Other Devices -> Have Disk.
The disk, is the location of which you extracted the files
*Windows XP does not have Certifications for this.
Your RAM drive is installed, however you will only get 1MB on it.
*To Adjust RAMDRIVE SIZE:
Start Regedit in your :\windows\regedit
Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ramdisk\Parameters
"DriveLetter" is set to Z: *You may change this.
Change "DiskSize" to 1f00000
This should give you about 30MB.
NOTE:
If you want a larger RAM-drive, you will need to buy it from here.
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm
Glad to finally give a conclusion to the question BTW, this is pretested, it's working on my system right now.
Little tip, you can change the location of your cache files for Internet Explorer. If they go to the RAM Drive, it will help process web pages faster, and all you have to do is shut down the computer to clear the cache.
Actually purchasing a 3rd party Ram Disk application would help more because of expanded size, but this is free and it will make a difference in graphics creation used as the first swap disk. It will also help those that just want to put their Internet CACHE on it so that IE finds info at ram speeds instead of disk read speed or conversly writes also.
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TO CREATE A RAM DRIVE ON WINDOWS XP/2000
Download this: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000ddk/sample01/1/NT5/EN-US/Ramdisk.exe
Extract it. (Note the location of which you extracted the files)
Go to Control Panel -> Add Hardware -> Choose From a List -> Other Devices -> Have Disk.
The disk, is the location of which you extracted the files
*Windows XP does not have Certifications for this.
Your RAM drive is installed, however you will only get 1MB on it.
*To Adjust RAMDRIVE SIZE:
Start Regedit in your :\windows\regedit
Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ramdisk\Parameters
"DriveLetter" is set to Z: *You may change this.
Change "DiskSize" to 1f00000
This should give you about 30MB.
NOTE:
If you want a larger RAM-drive, you will need to buy it from here.
http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm
Glad to finally give a conclusion to the question BTW, this is pretested, it's working on my system right now.
Little tip, you can change the location of your cache files for Internet Explorer. If they go to the RAM Drive, it will help process web pages faster, and all you have to do is shut down the computer to clear the cache.
It takes forever to render something I need to export. O' just to give you a hint on what I run so you can understand more. On load, I normally run 40 processes. Then if I start doing other stuff, it goes up to about 55 processes. I'm a multi tasker. I'm running a AMD Athlon 700mhz with 640mb of SDram PC133. I have 4 HDs Total of 200Gigs total of 9 partitions. Most of my partitions are almost full. I need to clean them out. VM Paging size 1160MB using a 40Gig HD that half works. I need to buy a new drive. So 40gigs of that 200gigs is blank since it's a bad hard-drive. So I decided to use part of the good section of it as paging instead. 
