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Three easy steps to get you up and
running with WinRamTurbo XP 1.
Setting the Target Free RAM and Auto Recover Level for
proper ram optimization 1. Setting the Targer Free RAM and Auto Recover Level for proper ram optimization: Target Free RAM control - Depending on the amount of memory installed, usually this setting should be at half your total installed ram to 1/4 of the total memory installed. This setting depends on various things such as other applications you may already have loaded. Auto Recover Level control - This setting controls when memory is automatically optimized and occurs when the available memory in windows falls below this amount. 1 - 2 Meg or 1/16 of your total ram is a good start for most people. You can set this higher if you have more memory in your system for windows. Usually you wouldn't set this value more than 1/8 of your total ram. 2. Setting options: Start WinRamTurbo XP automatically when Windows Starts checkbox - This setting allows WinRamTurbo XP to be launched when windows startsup. If it is not checked, WinRamTurbo XP will not automatically start. Start WinRamTurbo XP Minimized to the system tray checkbox - If checked, WinRamTurbo XP will start minimized to the system tray. Recover RAM automatically when alarm level is reached checkbox - WinRamTurbo XP will automatically recover RAM up to the Target Free RAM setting when free physical RAM falls below the Auto Recover Level setting. Recover RAM automatically every x minutes - This controls when memory is optimized after the set amount of minutes have elapsed. This will occur regardless of the Auto Recover Level setting. If this setting is not checked, this feature is then disabled. The range is 1 - 999 minutes if enabled. Disable CPU monitor checkbox - This turns off the CPU usage meter. Don't auto-recover unless CPU usage is below xx percent - This controls memory optimization depending on CPU load. If the CPU load is above this setting, WinRamTurbo XP will not automatically optimize ram until the load falls below this value. Use "Recover Now" Shortcut Key - This allows you to manually recover RAM on demand by using the specified shortcut key. Memory Graph Color - This changes the color of the Free Physical RAM graph. Tab Style - This allows you to change the physical style of the tab notebook interface used to tab between the different screens in WinRamTurbo XP. Memory Graph Speed - Changes the speed of the Free Physical RAM graph. 3. Setting the windows file and disk cache: (Windows 9x/ME) Cache Scheme combobox - Under cache scheme you can select predefined cache settings without having to figure the settings manually. The predefined settings are figured by the amount of physical memory you have and by what scheme you choose. Conserve Swap File Usage - This causes Windows 98/ME to use the faster RAM more often before it uses the slow swap file on your hard drive. (Windows NT/2000/XP) Don't allow the NTFS volume to generate MS-DOS 8.3 file names checkbox - Checking this setting can increase the performance on heavily used NTFS partitions that have large amounts of files with long filenames. Don't allow the NTFS volume to update the Last Access Time Stamp checkbox - Increases NTFS Performance by Disabling the Last Access Time Stamp. Keep the Windows NT core system in memory checkbox - On systems with large amount of RAM this tweak can be enabled to force the core Windows NT system to be kept in memory and not paged to the swapfile. Enable Large System Cache checkbox - When enabled, the OS will use more memory for caching the file system. This will use more memory for increased performance. |
System Tweaks Create Program Shortcuts - Create customized windows shortcuts to programs you commonly use that you want optimized by WinRamTurbo XP. Increase cable modem and DSL performance - If checked, this will greately improve your internet experience when using these hardwares. Increase simultaneous internet connections to x per connection - If checked, will allow your internet applications to open more than the standard 4 connections per server that an application is connected to. This will improve connection speed to particular servers on the internet. Force Windows to Unload DLLs from Memory - If checked, this will force windows to unload dlls that were previously loaded with an application that has terminated. Sometimes windows will leave certain dlls loaded in memory to improve load times for particular applications that use them. These dlls when not used can consume RAM. Reduce hard drive fragmentation & speed up file access - If checked, this setting will optimize the contiguous file allocation size for the file system. This is especially useful for disk intensive applications. |
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