youpla
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if like me you have 4Gb of ram and running vista 32 bits, you already all know that your system only uses 3Gb... So what can you do with the 1Gb left you may ask?
Well i found out a pretty cool freeware that let you use this extra giga of ram as a ramdisk.
I tested it and it works very well, and it does use the extra giga of ram beyond the 3Gb recognized by vista. So now i got an additional fixed ram drive of 1Gb for IE cache and Photoshop scratch disk.
The software is called Gavotte and i attached a copy here for those interested.
1/ Unzip
2/ click on ram4g.reg and click ok to add to your registry
3/ start ramdisk.exe
4/ click on install ramdisk button
5/ select disk size 1G and assign drive letter
6/ select mdeia type: Fixed media
7/ click apply and ok
you're all set!
You will have a fixed ramdisk of 1Gb in our system. If you want to remove it, just click on remove ramdisk button.
Rem: on step 6, if you select RAM drive for media type instead of fixed media, you won't get the disk mounted automatically on startup as apparently there is some incompatibility with between FAT32 ramdrive and a vista system in NTFS. which mean you would have to restart and reinstall ramdisk everytime. So better use Fixed media.
and you can easily check that the ramdisk is taken beyond the 3Gb available from your system, just look at your memory status in everest for example, just install and uninstall the ramdisk you will see that your memory amount does not change
not bad for a freebie and finally you can use your 4Gb completly!
Well i found out a pretty cool freeware that let you use this extra giga of ram as a ramdisk.
I tested it and it works very well, and it does use the extra giga of ram beyond the 3Gb recognized by vista. So now i got an additional fixed ram drive of 1Gb for IE cache and Photoshop scratch disk.
The software is called Gavotte and i attached a copy here for those interested.
1/ Unzip
2/ click on ram4g.reg and click ok to add to your registry
3/ start ramdisk.exe
4/ click on install ramdisk button
5/ select disk size 1G and assign drive letter
6/ select mdeia type: Fixed media
7/ click apply and ok
you're all set!
You will have a fixed ramdisk of 1Gb in our system. If you want to remove it, just click on remove ramdisk button.
Rem: on step 6, if you select RAM drive for media type instead of fixed media, you won't get the disk mounted automatically on startup as apparently there is some incompatibility with between FAT32 ramdrive and a vista system in NTFS. which mean you would have to restart and reinstall ramdisk everytime. So better use Fixed media.
and you can easily check that the ramdisk is taken beyond the 3Gb available from your system, just look at your memory status in everest for example, just install and uninstall the ramdisk you will see that your memory amount does not change
not bad for a freebie and finally you can use your 4Gb completly!
